Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the short-term gain of a few mining companies . ’ |
| 2 | In the space of approximately the last quarter of the nineteenth century positivist criminology ‘ developed from the idiosyncratic concerns of a few individuals into a programme of investigation and social action which attracted support throughout the whole of Europe and North America ’ ( Garland , 1985a ) . |
| 3 | He quoted Lord Atkin that the doctrine of public policy ‘ should only be invoked in clear cases in which the harm to the public is substantially incontestable , and does not depend upon the idiosyncratic inferences of a few judicial minds ’ . |
| 4 | The solution turns on delicate questions of the textual criticism of a few texts . |
| 5 | In the nineteenth century , when the only particle energies that people knew how to use were the low energies of a few electron volts generated by chemical reactions such as burning , it was thought that atoms were the smallest unit . |
| 6 | Blanche sipped her coffee , now lukewarm after sitting untouched on the low table for a few minutes . |
| 7 | She looked at the brown baked countryside , the dust and the withered grass near a few huts built with mud bricks , and corrugated iron roofs . |
| 8 | However , with the possible exception of a few highly collectable older items , it is only important to translate the signatures and inscriptions on masterworkshop rugs , because the work of different weavers can command considerably different prices . |
| 9 | You can see that with the possible exception of a few dust samples there are no radiometric ages older than 4600 Ma , which is additional evidence for this being the age of formation of the planets . |
| 10 | This week 's manoeuvres underline again how great the political power of a few key general secretariers remains . |
| 11 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 12 | While skirmishing has started in the Senate , which will not consider the economic plan for a few weeks , something like open warfare has broken out in the House . |
| 13 | Mrs Padmore , as we know from the memorandum at the front of the file , is going to be transferring to the Economic Secretariat in a few weeks ' time . |
| 14 | So , whereas in the psychoanalytic account , homophobia might well signal the precariousness and instability of identity , even of sexual difference itself , in the materialist socio-political account it typically signals the reverse , namely that sexual difference is being secured , homophobia being ‘ a mechanism for regulating the behaviour of the many by the specific oppression of a few ’ ( Sedgwick , Between Men , 88 ) . |
| 15 | Spanish Masonry had its ultimate origins in the deistic humanitarianism of a few eighteenth-century esprits forts . |
| 16 | Wolfe and his opponent Montcalm were mortally wounded in the small-scale encounter of a few thousand men which affected the history of North America as decisively as Plassey affected the history of India . |
| 17 | I support an intermediate position , in which one performs appropriate investigations in the right order for a few patients . |
| 18 | As a result , we argued , the rights of the vast majority of people to an attractive and undeveloped countryside were being abused by acceding to the private interests of a few . |
| 19 | For the space of two heartbeats the two protagonists , hunter and quarry , glared at each other across the intervening gap of a few feet , while hurtling through the night at better than 80 m.p.h . |
| 20 | A busy man who was prepared for ‘ another talk ’ after the prolonged exchange of a few days earlier , was not quite the self-absorbed , withdrawn person he has sometimes been portrayed . |
| 21 | For example , there has been extensive coverage of the controversial actions of a few local councils in London , and of the campaign for black sections in the Labour party . |
| 22 | My purpose here will be to give a very brief sketch of what each of the theories attempts and to direct the interested reader to a few of the many other books that do give detailed accounts and critiques of them . |
| 23 | " It is a bit ; will you open the back door for a few minutes and let in a breath of air ? " |
| 24 | He studied the English copy for a few more moments before dropping it into the shredder . |
| 25 | We must not let the public pessimism of a few destroy the optimism of many . |
| 26 | The historical record over a few cycles of objective setting and reviewing is a means of evaluating the progress of the follower on the sound basis of how he thinks about his job and how he carries it out . |
| 27 | But now we 're in the top erm position , we 've been in the top position for a few weeks now , it obviously erm makes you think that whether it 's a possibility . |
| 28 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 29 | Yet , like Sly , he can only sustain the unfamiliar medium for a few speeches , and sinks back to his true milieu . |
| 30 | If her bullying ways persist , forget the mother-and-toddler group for a few weeks . |