Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , it does not detract from my central theme that ‘ traditional ’ chemistry is brought alive by anecdotes and can be great fun , a feat that modern chemistry simply can not match except perhaps in the case of hydroxyethane ( ethanol ) , after a few glasses of which , who cares anyway ? |
| 2 | After a few weeks of our secret meetings , I thought that Sarah had discovered the fact that we were both , in our different ways , being unfaithful to her . |
| 3 | These were probably one of the few things of mine not due to be on show at the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist later this morning . |
| 4 | In one of the few misjudgements of his brilliant career Cockroft said that he was ‘ 90 per cent certain ’ that thermonuclear fusion was occurring . |
| 5 | LEFT : The chimney of Holcombe Mill is one of the few survivors of its kind . |
| 6 | Oldfield 's friendship with Richard Branson remained one of the few absolutes of his life . |
| 7 | One of the few conductors of his father 's music to excite Maxim Shostakovich 's admiration is Haitink . |
| 8 | There 's a bust of the author in Exeter college chapel ; one of the few reminders of him in Oxford . |
| 9 | The skin was one of the few aspects of himself he had passed on to Sylvia , his bonny young daughter . |
| 10 | The dilemma followed me through the publication of a few accounts of my researches . |
| 11 | When I married , I left behind the few friends of my childhood , and made no lasting friends in London . |
| 12 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 13 | Even on a bad day he is worth watching , for a few seconds of his lightning , elegant attacks eclipses an evening of mauling aggression . |
| 14 | All I want to do is go through a few aspects of your statement , to make sure I 've got them right . ’ |
| 15 | I comforted myself with a few thoughts of what I would do to the culprit if I ever caught him ; realised that was highly unlikely , and headed for the golf course . |
| 16 | I have seen an old lighterman take a loaded barge across the Thames in the Pool of London with a few strokes of his sweep — and a canny use of the tide . |
| 17 | So we think of them as being descriptive , but in reality , if you 're going to say to somebody , you 're very responsible , they 're probably not going to know what you mean , unless you come up with a few examples of what you 're talking about , of how they 've demonstrated that type of behaviour . |
| 18 | Bernice dumped the remaining food on the floor with a few sweeps of her hand and kicked it under the rubber skirts of the machine . |
| 19 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 20 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 21 | On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form . |
| 22 | Because people had seen the recorder being switched off , they ignored the microphones , leaving them within a few inches of their mouths , thus enabling us to record conversation of superb acoustic quality . |
| 23 | The Ministers and the Court dignitaries were on the platform to make their farewells , which the Emperor had insisted be short and restrained , so that within a few minutes of his arrival he and his son were on board and the train left to cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ |
| 24 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 25 | In the latest example of this phenomenon , high on the massive granite sweep of South Ridge on Arran 's Cir Mhor , a pristine copy of Howett 's Constable compendium decided to play truant — and landed , incredibly , within a few feet of my rucksack below , leaving us to puzzle out the route unaided . |
| 26 | I remember once a large white-tailed mongoose scuttled past within a few feet of us . |
| 27 | It was n't until she got within a few yards of him that he realized it was Maisie . |
| 28 | Those coming in from the sea do the same thing in reverse , leaving the wheel with a sideways dive when they are within a few yards of their nest-hole . |
| 29 | As well as the noise the couple would have to put up with a landfill site within a few yards of their garden . |
| 30 | His move towards contracting led to his being awarded the contract for the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway in 1855 , reaching his home village a year later and passing within a few yards of his first contract , the iron bridge . |