Example sentences of "from [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same experience comes from some few words of a poet or a mystic ; it is as if the emotions of the poet that he has graven in his poem strike a response and the mind is transported . |
| 2 | Apart from these few senior officers , however , policemen shared the loyalties of their population , and had a position which was independent of their membership of the force and their rank in it . |
| 3 | Findings from these few studies provide tentative support for the conclusion that there is no inevitable drift towards conservative social and political attitudes with ageing , nor is ageing necessarily associated with attitudinal rigidity or inflexibility . ’ |
| 4 | From these few examples , it was obvious that the theoretical principles related to the spread of infection were not always put into practice . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , it should be clear from these few facts that the financing of the social services is likely to cause political controversy . |
| 6 | Occasionally , the head of the house would commute up and down the river by paddle steamer during the week , visiting the Stock Exchange and attending to business , but apart from those few and the servants , the street was deserted . |
| 7 | From those few chances he has , like Payne , earned enough prize money — around £40,000 — to retain his Card for next year . |
| 8 | And the gun he held now , pointed at an unarmed man 's head — its menace was chillingly different from those few target practices . |