Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 2 | Those whose entitlement is established , however , will find that not only the first few pounds of some other form of income they have may be disregarded , but the value of a house they own or occupy is not counted as part of their income . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's as if only the last few hours of my life were real . |
| 4 | Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out . |
| 5 | Sickness rose , vying with the pain , as she found herself piecing together the last few hours of Mark 's life . |
| 6 | They 're now desperatly trying to piece together the last few hours of her life . |
| 7 | Parenting education might begin in schools and continue over the first few years of married life ( Pound et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |
| 9 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 10 | This is a real time saver , because it automatically plays back the last few seconds of the previous shot as a check before returning you to record mode ready to take the next shot . |
| 11 | He gulped down greedily the last few drops of red wine . |
| 12 | There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data . |
| 13 | Then a last few weeks of freedom at High Brook . |