Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 2 | If the hon. Gentleman waits for a few days , he may be made aware of developments emanating from a source not far from me now which may interest him and which may deal with that point . |
| 3 | The ASB has highlighted two methods of dubious interpretation used by a few companies so far . |
| 4 | In Latin America , Africa , and Asia , peasants might make a similar journey to market with a few chickens or other stock and produce if the fare were low enough to leave some profit . |
| 5 | Its central nervous system consists of a few ganglia , no more than about 20,000 neurons in all . |
| 6 | Just time for a quick honeymoon followed by a few fond farewells , and the intrepid sailor was off again on board his old ship on 17 February , leaving his second wife to look after her newly-acquired stepchildren , Elizabeth Eliza and Robert Edward , in his absence . |
| 7 | Nor did a spirit of affectionate remembrance obtain among the few whom Ursula felt obliged to entertain afterwards at Swans ' Meadow . |
| 8 | Personally , I doubt that any of the current technologies will seriously challenge a good presentation made with a few well-designed 35mm slides . |
| 9 | Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium . |
| 10 | it is useless having the grand manner reserved for the few . |
| 11 | This takes time to begin with — lots of lovely sitting around going through the magazines again but , when needed , the index which is stored in a file can be looked up and the right magazine located in a few minutes . |
| 12 | ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time . |
| 13 | ‘ Oi already 'ahd 10 on the board boi then , ’ explained the Smallholder , a faint wisp of happy remembrance tugging at a few cheek muscles . |
| 14 | This vigorous phase continued for a few days , with the column of steam and ash climbing eleven kilometres high above the volcano and showering ash over points up to 480 kilometres distant . |
| 15 | The Scottish Protestants had their own dramatic gesture to make within a few weeks of Mary Tudor 's death . |
| 16 | A secondary stage follows after a few more months and manifests itself by a rash on the face and body . |
| 17 | Uplands kept its wholesaling operation going for a few years after I left , but it does n't exist any more ; I think the day of the really small wholesaler is gone . ’ |
| 18 | Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us . |
| 19 | The big man thought for a few seconds , then laughed . |
| 20 | The acute depression lasted for a few months but the wounds healed enough for Gedge to build up a friendship with Duane , whose latent qualities he later recognised . |
| 21 | A new chairman came in a few months ago . |
| 22 | This took no longer than a couple of seconds to see and understand , a near-abstract image accompanied by a few words . |
| 23 | I hope that a message can go out that there is a new resolve in the west and that we are determined to ensure that the killing , the destruction and the brutality stop , and that , as a new year dawns in a few days ' time , it dawns with a new sense of hope for the battered , beleaguered people of Croatia . |
| 24 | Holy chaos reigned for a few moments while all heaven was let loose . |
| 25 | It would have been easy to track down , as a somewhat acidulous correspondent explained during a few remarks on the shortcomings of journalists . |
| 26 | Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up . |
| 27 | The Syracusan tyranny lasted for a few more years ; Hiero was even able to install his son Deinomenes as ruler of a new city of Etna , built to house the population of Katane and Naxos , ousted some time in the 470s ( cp . |
| 28 | The fact is that diesel engines are produced in huge volume compared with a few years ago , reducing costs considerably , while petrol engines have grown ever more complex . |
| 29 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 30 | A returning female alights within a few feet of where she last left her baby . |