Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1974 and 1979 I had become concerned with the number of investigations conducted in a few States where , despite representations from properly appointed accredited representatives , the findings in the final reports were clearly less than satisfactory . |
| 2 | An intervention with a low probability of harm given to millions can do more damage than one with a high probability of harm given to a few |
| 3 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 4 | As Tudge ( 1988 ) discusses , the facility of plants to regenerate from a few cells is related to the characteristic known as totipotency . |
| 5 | Moreover , movement into the village was predominantly of people born within a few miles of its borders . |
| 6 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 7 | A large number of periodicals survived for a few issues and then disappeared : ten ceased or suspended publication during 1971 . |
| 8 | There is no good evidence for the widespread and effective use of any methods of family planning outside a few élite or urban groups until the end of the eighteenth century ( Wilson 1984 , Livi-Bacci 1986 ) , and even then appliance methods do not become important for another century . |
| 9 | Here , clinging like autumn leaves to a few favoured trees , some 200m butterflies sleep through the winter . |
| 10 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |
| 11 | ZOOLOGIST Kristy Bird 's love affair with Africa resumes in a few weeks when she embarks on a special project to study the impact of poaching on Kenya 's elephant population . |
| 12 | Decorate with grated orange rind and serve warm with yogurt sprinkled with a few poppy seeds . |
| 13 | All are strongly seasonal , with activity limited to a few days or weeks in summer . |
| 14 | In the past , the Falkland sheep farmers looked on birds of prey as their enemies , but more enlightened attitudes are nowadays evident — at least in areas frequented by the few tourists visiting the islands . |
| 15 | Room temperature fusion has been discovered independently and simultaneously by two groups in Utah working within a few miles of each other . |
| 16 | Faulting takes place through sudden , rapid movements over distances ranging from a few centimetres to several metres . |
| 17 | For stable samples we rarely need to obtain spectra in a hurry , and commercial spectrometers generally operate on timescales ranging from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 18 | Bourdieu 's articles on markets preceded by a few years his pieces on ‘ fields ’ . |
| 19 | Another treats the upheaval as a crusade for liberty led by a few heroic dissidents . |