Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [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 | When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August , and Miss Ellen another heart attack , both old ladies died within a few days of each other . |
| 4 | The depopulation and lack of facilities in rural areas indicates to a few that industrial expansion is detrimental to country life . |
| 5 | The ASB has highlighted two methods of dubious interpretation used by a few companies so far . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | How the serious issues emerged within a few years of the miracle of Heliodorus is the question . |
| 8 | Its central nervous system consists of a few ganglia , no more than about 20,000 neurons in all . |
| 9 | The open left issues from the wraps at waist-level , close vertical folds hanging from the wrist , while over the rest the stuff lies in broad , smooth areas cut by a few sharp folds determined by the left knee . |
| 10 | This case report describes the histological and macroscopic changes seen within a few months in the gastric mucosa of a 28 year old woman patient with upper abdominal symptoms . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
| 13 | Containers are strongly associated with male-rich graves , while perforated spoons found in a few female graves may have been used as strainers in connection with the serving of drink . |
| 14 | Nor did a spirit of affectionate remembrance obtain among the few whom Ursula felt obliged to entertain afterwards at Swans ' Meadow . |
| 15 | Personally , I doubt that any of the current technologies will seriously challenge a good presentation made with a few well-designed 35mm slides . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | it is useless having the grand manner reserved for the few . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The hostile groups outside Fascist meetings increased from a few protesters to thousands of demonstrators on certain widely reported occasions . |
| 20 | ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time . |
| 21 | But amazingly , 17-stone Alan escaped with a few small cuts and bruises — and a little lost dignity . |
| 22 | ‘ Oi already 'ahd 10 on the board boi then , ’ explained the Smallholder , a faint wisp of happy remembrance tugging at a few cheek muscles . |
| 23 | There is still a handful of tiny fishing villages with idyllic beaches fronted by a few discreet villas — Salema , for instance , at the very west of the Algarve , and around Tavira , the prettiest town on the Algarve , east of Faro . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Scottish Protestants had their own dramatic gesture to make within a few weeks of Mary Tudor 's death . |
| 26 | I used Vichy 's Hip and Thigh Massage Cream and I could actually feel the nodules of fat cells disintegrating after a few weeks of applying the cream daily , and the improvement became more and more obvious as I continued . |
| 27 | A secondary stage follows after a few more months and manifests itself by a rash on the face and body . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | It is true that the quality of most waters runs in cycles ; a few years of mediocre fish followed by a few years of quality fish . |
| 30 | So , Meldrews syndrome was well and truly evident , with various profanities splattered with a few ‘ … believe it 's . |