Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sprayed the subjects with cold water when they were undoubtedly in REM sleep , and then woke them after varying intervals of a few minutes . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend 's question speaks for itself , and no doubt we shall hear more about such matters in a few minutes . |
| 3 | Through established links with a few Oxford Colleges , he visited Oxford annually during the war and offered appointments as WEA full-time tutors to several outstanding young women graduates . |
| 4 | Pisco sour proved to be a local brandy whisked up with white of egg and the juice of fresh limes with a few drops of angostura bitters lying like dark bloodstains on the white bed of foam . |
| 5 | The often surprising results of the January Old Master drawing sales in New York revealed that it is just as easy to overspend on a drawing as it is on a painting , and conversely , that despite high prices for a few grand names , drawings still remain a little understood and modestly priced field . |
| 6 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 7 | The preparations for an " open-book " examination should rather consist of preparing adequate notes — possibly in swot-card form of all aspects of the work , with , perhaps , the support of marked passages in a few textbooks . |
| 8 | You do n't find cows with names any more and there are n't any farmers like Mr Dakin , who somehow scratched a living from a herd of six milkers plus a few calves , pigs and hens . |
| 9 | This alone may well explain the presence of walled areas with a few buildings within , as at Margidunum . |
| 10 | Sterilised crypts continue to empty of functional cells for a few days , then crypts disappear and bare ulcerated areas develop . |
| 11 | The collections are dominated by seeds probably of the mustard and caper families , Zizyphus stones , grass grains , and seeds of leguminous plants ; the unidentified material consists of many examples of a few types . |
| 12 | Although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are plenty of good establishments within a few minutes walk . |
| 13 | Third , there was the severe deterioration of industrial relations in the few years prior to 1914 which brought with it violent strikes and syndicalism . |
| 14 | The Anglicans were divided — the stoutest of Irish Protestants versus a few stiff Anglo-Catholic parishes ; and in a fight the sympathies of Ramsey 's parish lay with the second . |
| 15 | The number of flowers that can be used for the golden theme is quite large : you could choose something very simple , such as a small spray of yellow roses with a few of their own leaves and buds , or something more complicated , such as a mixture of yellow roses , mimosa , potentillas and narcissi , with a few primroses and primulas to give extra detail . |
| 16 | The more common response was a temporary lull in the onslaught of behavioural difficulties for a few months before and after adoption . |
| 17 | Duff Cooper , against all expectations of a few weeks before , won by a majority of nearly 6000 . |
| 18 | They 're land hungry — they fight like hungry dogs over a few miserable acres . |
| 19 | When fermentation has finished the ‘ green beer ’ is run into conditioning tanks for a few days . |
| 20 | They had first closed the door itself , but within seconds it was bristling like a porcupine with glittering bayonets within a few more seconds it had been hacked and splintered to pieces by these bayonets , and now it no longer existed . |
| 21 | It also happens to have very valuable timber , and the Chilean government is anxious to profit from the dead trees that are interspersed with living ones in the few remaining areas of forest where alerce still occurs . |
| 22 | Children with considerable learning problems were removed from mainstream classes for a few months and taught by a specially appointed additional teacher . |
| 23 | In turn , ‘ a striking development ’ , as the 1974 Press Commission researchers called it , was ‘ the concentration of the ownership of newspapers in contiguous towns into a few hands ’ ( Hartley et al. , 1977 , p. 73 ) . |
| 24 | There will be slight inaccuracies in these estimates as a few claims will be received in April each year and be paid at a new rate after a rise in fees , and some very late claims may be paid at an old lower rate . |
| 25 | Petitions did not begin simply to be pressed on parliament in large numbers on a few issues ; the range of grievances expanded in petitioning . |
| 26 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 27 | It has even led in extreme cases to a few excavators being so certain of what they would find before they put a spade into the ground , that evidence was selected and rejected in accordance with their predetermined thinking . |
| 28 | For the past 31 years , Scottish-bred salmon returning to your country 's most famous rivers , the Tweed , Forth , Tay , Dee , Don , the Esks , Spey and many others , have been intercepted at sea in enormous numbers by a few English boat fishermen . |
| 29 | An interview can last anything from fifteen minutes to a few hours , though normally one hour is considered long , so it is essential to maintain the informant 's interest and attention for the duration . |
| 30 | The length of the repairs to be done with the flagstones will vary from several miles to a few hundred yards , and they will be laid with the help of local authorities , volunteers and environmental associations . |