Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [art] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never mind , the dates were going in and the last few weeks of the tour in the Eastern states were coming up . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm very much up and down but the past few days I 've amazed myself . |
| 3 | But neither he nor Laura had time to oversee it properly and the first few months were disastrous . |
| 4 | Roberts argued that up until the last few years , apart from a very few studies made by certain women scholars , women were notable in British sociology mainly by their absence . |
| 5 | The boys headed for the tea-table , not quite hurrying , with the two umpires strolling behind and a frigid few paces apart . |
| 6 | It may be possible to reconcile the seismic evidence with fractured rock beneath the lava , which is no more than a few kilometres thick , particularly if the first few sheets that flowed were heavily fractured and were then covered by the sheets we see today . |
| 7 | At the moment , however , as she stood outside the door she had intended trying before , one trembling hand hesitating over the latch , Isabel could only think as far ahead as the next few minutes . |