Example sentences of "[adv] from [art] few [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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1 | The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies . |
2 | It was empty apart from a few chairs and a couple of tables . |
3 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
4 | Apart from a few Sikhs and a very irritable Hindu from East Sheen , most of the targeted persons seemed quite pleased to be asked . |
5 | Apart from a few independents and a handful of dissidents the only candidates among whom the elector can choose will be those that the parties have seen fit to put before him . |
6 | But apart from a few sparrows and a robin redbreast the branches were bare . |
7 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |