Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scales on the disk extend just into the dorsal edge of the disk , the ventral interradial areas are naked except for a few scales next to the genital slit . |
| 2 | During these weeks Seb rarely saw Carrie , except for a few hours each Sunday when they worked on the farm ledgers together at the Hankses ' cottage , and even here they were rarely alone . |
| 3 | Immunostaining for each enzyme was present in the cytoplasm of tumour cells ( Fig 3 and 4 ) , although in a few cases nuclear staining was also seen for the glutathione S-transferases . |
| 4 | It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ . |
| 5 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
| 6 | But they hope that in a few days forty orphaned children will be on their way to a new life in England … leaving behind them an horror of war which has already killed thousands of innocent youngsters . |
| 7 | The grim alternative is that in a few years many more specialties will be in the position of thoracic medicine and more junior doctors will spend even longer in the training grades . |
| 8 | Capital letters : Use these only for proper names and for a few dignitaries such as Her Majesty the Queen , Prime Minister , Archbishop and Field Marshal . |
| 9 | They were just what their case needed , and for a few years these texts became the foundation of the Canterbury case . |
| 10 | After a few days of premonitory seismic activity , the eruption started on 15 January and for a few days well-developed Vulcanian activity continued , with frequent explosions and a great eruption cloud reaching up to 10,000 metres . |
| 11 | He then pointed out that the financial-management literature concentrated exclusively on stage 4 , and with a few exceptions this is still the situation today . |
| 12 | But in the 1880s a successful means of refrigerating meat cargoes was found , and within a few years Australian and Argentine beef , New Zealand lamb , and American pork were flooding into the country . |
| 13 | The government however continued with just one vice-president and within a few months this post was held by Daniel Arap Moi , a non-Kikuyu who , despite being a member of the Legislative Council , had not been prominent in nationalist politics . |
| 14 | That convinced him he was on the right track and within a few months some alert marketing men in the Wilson Sporting Goods Company were equally impressed . |
| 15 | The majority of these early volunteers were ex-service men , some with experience of World War I and within a few weeks many of us teenagers barely sixteen jointed the unit . |
| 16 | For much of the 1970S a wide range of European satellites were placed in orbit by American ( and in a few cases Soviet ) launchers . |
| 17 | It was hardly past noon and in a few moments eleven hundred fresh fighting-men would be stepping ashore . |
| 18 | The launcher was only six feet away from him and in a few seconds thousands of people were going to die horribly . |
| 19 | A small drapers , ‘ Palmers ’ , was next door but after a few years this became a Baby Wear shop . |
| 20 | But in a few minutes Israeli troops , armed with anti-tank rockets and machine-guns , had turned the place into rubble and 22 families , 140 people , had lost their homes and all their possessions . |
| 21 | But in a few cases careful evidence must be gathered to show whether the attachment falls within Cox v Harrison at ( B ) 7 above . |