Example sentences of "but [art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | But Northern Ireland has remained untouched by all but a few Irish comedians . |
| 32 | The pub was orthodoxly darkened and shuttered , but a few diners were still left in the restaurants . |
| 33 | I find it rather rich for eating as a table cheese , but a few spoonfuls stirred into hot pasta is delicious . |
| 34 | It is a narrow escape , but a few chapters later we find Abraham doing it all over again , this time in the city of Gerar ( ch. |
| 35 | None of the Glaswegians regretted making the trip , but a few grumbled about what seemed a ludicrously early chucking-out time . |
| 36 | He tried to sniff back the wetness that had sprung to his eyes , but a few hot tears managed to spill over and course down his burning cheeks . |
| 37 | But a few rough edges are welcome in these days of vacuous , glossy musicals , and numbers like Over the Hills and Far Away and Macheath 's bitter hymn about Tyburn Tree to the tune of Greensleeves are beautifully performed . |
| 38 | He received an immediate apology , but a few weeks later the picture turned up again — this time accompanying a feature on prostitution in Paris . |
| 39 | There were advantages for the Board in deploying all but a few of its full-time teachers as subject-specialist staff tutors based in Cambridge — notably the fact that there would be little problem in constructing a viable programme for each one , with the whole of the Board 's area to cover . |
| 40 | The fight lasted but a few minutes , when the soldiers retreated before us for twelve miles . |
| 41 | Generally we meet in Forum , stand outside and sort out our plan for the evening , and then stroll down the street to cactus , the old western style bar , Doors or Hamam 's , to name but a few . |
| 42 | The visitor will find hibiscus , bougainvillea , angel 's trumpet , thunbergia , abutilon , plumbago and datura , to name but a few . |
| 43 | These include birds of prey flying demonstrations , morris dancing , archery tournaments and car rallies , to name but a few . |
| 44 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 45 | Given that conditions had changed greatly in forty years , and that ‘ the right to know ’ had in every walk of life assumed paramount importance , it seemed nevertheless unrealistic — even allowing for the vastly different scale of the conflict — for relatives of servicemen to protest at lack of information over but a few days or even hours . |
| 46 | My second husband had been born 6,000 miles away , but at his funeral service the coffin lay but a few feet from the church war memorial tablet bearing Leslie 's name . |
| 47 | To cite but a few examples , he notes that a ‘ refreshing drink for such as are ill of fevers ’ was whey in which was boiled violets ( Viola riviniana ) , , ‘ field bowl ’ . |
| 48 | To cite but a few examples , the thistle is the official badge of the Clan Stewart . |
| 49 | Most molluscs are small , a few centimetres long and some are really tiny , but a few species have attained considerable dimensions . |
| 50 | But a few giants are known . |
| 51 | We know that they could live in extremely shallow to very deep-water environments , that most lived on or near the sea bottom , but a few were adapted to open-ocean swimming . |
| 52 | In fact , the film was set in the 1950s , but it is doubtful whether any but a few of the millions who watched the film appreciated that life in a mental hospital is any different today . |
| 53 | The comparatively peaceful existence of Fromebridge was but a few short years from being shattered , for in 1760 the mill came into the hands of Joseph Fairthorne and his industrious partners , William and John Purnell . |
| 54 | It was but a few yards across the first field that he was attacked by three footpads . |
| 55 | Most of the cells attacked will succumb to the infection , but a few will be resistant , and these will integrate the alien DNA into their own genomes . |
| 56 | Among these are landscapes , nature , including close-ups , and photographing people , to mention but a few . |
| 57 | At the time he said never again , but a few years have gone by and he has a different perception . |
| 58 | But a few sidelong glances revealed them to be He-Shes . |
| 59 | But a few minutes ago I said I was dog-tired and hungry . |
| 60 | These are but a few of the variables . |