Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [coord] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it had been proved to the satisfaction of all but a few sceptics that such an event would result in an effect similar to the collapse of a dwarf star . |
| 2 | For all but a few types the LOB corpus alone is too small a source from which to reliably derive information about how likely a word is to belong to a particular grammatical category ( many words in the LOB occur just once ) . |
| 3 | Conventional programs ( Fig. 2 ) embed the knowledge in the instructions , making it very difficult for all but a few programmers to understand the logic of the program . |
| 4 | For all but a few weeks in the year there is the demand of regular attendances and rehearsals , often at unsocial hours , as well as regular private practice . |
| 5 | The various provinces of Russia were too many and too mixed to allow of any division into two or a few camps , irrespective of whether socio-economic conditions , nationality , religion , or politics are concerned . |
| 6 | The problem here is not so much to prevent partners leaving before reaching retirement age ( any such general prohibition would be unrealistically restrictive in all but a few firms ) as to ensure that as little damage is done to the firm as possible when they do . |
| 7 | For example , foreign electronics firms have pre-empted the creation of a domestically-owned electronics industry in all but a few countries . |
| 8 | Schools in all but a few pockets of the county are expected to find enough people willing to stand for election in September when 1,600 governors are due to be appointed . |
| 9 | The Scottish Institute , however , feels that the system is ‘ satisfactory in all but a few cases ’ . |
| 10 | As suggested above , one of the central planks in Lord Devlin 's argument that the law does not simply exist to protect the individual , but also to protect society , was the fact that in all but a few cases the victim may not consent to the commission of an offence against themselves . |
| 11 | In all but a few cases their treason had been petty , enlisting in the German ranks after being taken prisoner or something of that sort . |
| 12 | In all but a few cases interviews were taped . |
| 13 | In all but a few cases , a solution will be provided immediately or within a couple of hours . |
| 14 | Registered land conveyancing is delightfully simple , both as to deducing and investigation of title , and official forms are obtainable that , with minor adaptation , will serve in all but a few cases . |
| 15 | In his famous concluding paragraph of The Origin of Species Darwin expressed wonder that the diversity of the organic world can have been produced from one or a few ancestors by the operation of several natural laws — ‘ there is grandeur in this view of life … ’ . |
| 16 | The writings of one of the great visionaries of the period , the Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , were not allowed to be published and he remained little more than a name , if even that , to all but a few scholars . |
| 17 | Erm and while I was married I bought it back for twenty and a few months later I sell it for ten pound . |