Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [det] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The principles of stressing and testing aircraft have remained much the same from the days of wooden biplanes down to supersonic fighters although there are many differences in practice .
2 The sauropods instead had teeth in the front with only a few at the sides .
3 These are only a few of the choices before them , but even these are very difficult to prioritize and at times some of them must be sacrificed at the expense of others in this play .
4 Although only a few of the sources of political controversy of the time have been touched upon , enough has been said to demonstrate that people could not be immune from the implications of political decisions taken at Westminster or St James 's .
5 This book has discussed only a few of the innovations we shall have to assess in the next five years or so .
6 Only a few of the particles fed into the SPS actually collide ; the remainder just fly past each other .
7 This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) .
8 Only a few of the errors are of the same kind as spelling or typing errors .
9 Again , as one member of staff said , ‘ only a few of the girls complain in any one class ’ .
10 This section covers only a few of the documents published over the past hundred years on the geology of the Channel bed , including a few relating to the 1970s project which seems particularly relevant today .
11 Only a few of the surveys of homeless mentally ill people have inquired about any history of psychiatric treatment .
12 And that 's only a few of the things that 'll be making their Megatape debuts on the front cover of COMMODORE FORCE !
13 Only a few of the diplodocuses survived .
14 Small parties seem to serve their members better when food patches are found for in larger units only a few of the animals present could then be fed ( Dunbar 1977 ) .
15 Over the years ‘ Mods and Rockers ’ , ‘ Hell 's Angels ’ , ‘ Skinheads ’ , ‘ Rude Boys ’ , ‘ Romantics ’ , ‘ Neo-Romantics ’ and ‘ Punks ’ were only a few of the pieces in an ever-changing cultural jig-saw .
16 These were only a few of the paradoxes of Baldwin 's life and character .
17 Only a few of the rabbits remained above ground .
18 Job costing , fee assessment , cash-flow forecasting and staff motivation are only a few of the requirements of a successful practice manager .
19 A limitation of our study is that we had baseline data on smoking for only a few of the subjects and could not completely control for the potentially confounding effects of cigarette smoking .
20 In other words , life would be just the same for the inhabitants of another planet who were both mirror images of us and who were made of antimatter , rather than matter .
21 They 're just the same with the police force , there could be er , er , an increase in police pay , or there could be any , a very large incident which would require planning , if these happen then it has always been the case , if there was n't the money available then a precept could be put upon us as a local authorities to er , cover that erm , directly .
22 But we get killed just the same by the Provies .
23 ‘ I 've seen just the same in the police , ’ murmured Blanche .
24 They would pay exactly the same under the rents-to-mortgages scheme as they currently pay in rent — but they would be acquiring their homes , rather than simply being tenants .
25 STAMINA is not the least of the qualities demanded of the professional cricketer .
26 Not the least of the problems which Cnut faced as king of England was an important and complex relationship with the English church .
27 ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice . ’
28 ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice ’
29 Not the least of the advantages enjoyed by the peripheral regions was cheap coastal transport .
30 Not the least of the offences which led to Paul 's assassination in 1801 was his contemptuous treatment of courtiers .
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