Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , it was the darkest ones that survived best , with the result that in a few generations the peppered moths living near the big industrial cities were nearly all black . |
| 2 | It was followed by a silence so fraught with regret on Luce 's part that after a few seconds she had to admit the truth . |
| 3 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |
| 4 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 5 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 6 | This change results in a wave of electrical activity passing down the nerve cell membrane — a wave called an action potential that in a few milliseconds passes from the cell body along the axon to the synapse . |
| 7 | It should also be credited with the fact that within a few years very little more was heard from politicians about the importance of the much-vaunted ‘ British independent nuclear deterrent ’ against which CND had originally campaigned . |