Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 2 | Until such a time peasants in a country like France were really only interested in a few restricted matters like land , taxes , and the threat of military service . |
| 3 | In 1866 Reichenberg ( Liberec ) , the Bohemian textile centre , still produced half its total output on the looms of artisan weavers , admittedly for the most part now dependent on a few large factories . |
| 4 | Better to think of it as a big , V8-powered luxury automatic saloon of unique character and style that , at £91,500 , costs about what a Mercedes dealer will take off you for a V12 Mercedes S-class with a few extra bits . |
| 5 | The wind resistant Tactel and Ebyl Thermovelours fleece helped keep me snug and warm on the few chilly days we 've had this summer . |
| 6 | And our optional Payment Protector plan covers you against loss of income in the event of sickness , accident or compulsory redundancy ( subject to a few simple conditions ) . |
| 7 | It has been suggested , then , that , while certain policy areas , subject to a few difficult boundary problems , are defined as social policy , any proper understanding of the forces that determine outcomes in these areas must rest upon considerations of other policies not social policy conventionally considered . |
| 8 | When she enters her bedroom , Perk discovers she does not have lovely dark curly hair , but is bald with a few grey wisps and because this woman is so vain and ca n't bear her god child seeing her without her wig , she ends up pushing her so hard that Perk falls , hits her head and dies . |
| 9 | The largest falcon of the region , resembling a large stout Peregrine ( p. 93 ) in outline , though with slightly blunter wings with broader bases , and longer tail , but extremely variable in plumage , from almost white with a few dark flecks to almost completely dark grey ; most frequent form is like rather pale Peregrine , but lacking the dark moustachial streak . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've given them good service — 130 goals in 140-odd games — and feel good for a few more seasons . ’ |
| 11 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few preliminary meetings so far to pick a training squad , and I 've also got involved in the training sessions themselves . |
| 13 | Unable to see out the operator inside was responsible for a few unintentional gropes during rehearsals ! |
| 14 | This group , which included what are known as rural or quasi-samurai , was particularly numerous in a few important domains , such as Satsuma and Chóshú . |
| 15 | That Beveridge viewed the elderly with a notable lack of sympathy is evident in the few telling phrases which appeared in the final draft of August 1942 but were left out of the published Report : to give full subsistence pensions ‘ as a birthday present ’ to an individual attaining the age of 60 or 65 would be ‘ reprehensible extravagance ’ which was ‘ wholly unjustifiable ’ . |
| 16 | After a simple pre-take off litany ( minus the F for flaps ) which should be familiar to any Cessna 150 pilot , the Aircoupe accelerated down Halfpenny Green 's Runway 34 in a formation take-off , becoming airborne in a few hundred feet before I had to throttle back to keep in station with the hard-climbing 172 camera ship . |
| 17 | And due to a few unforseen obstacles some did n't even manage that . |
| 18 | Due to a few simple changes on employment records , the cleaning income was tax-free . |
| 19 | Surely 30 minutes per week is not excessive for a few televised hymns . |
| 20 | Modern English may be pensive about their comeback but they 're certainly not paranoid or precious about a few meagre errors , and this is when the fun really starts . |
| 21 | Both of these French strategies illustrated a common belief in the need to move quickly and to be big in a few global market sectors . |
| 22 | For example , the sedimentary rocks that form the top geological layer in much of southern Britain may be only a few hundred metres thick in a few isolated sites . |
| 23 | In taking this view we are not denying that the loss of liberty may actually be necessary in a few extreme cases and this should only be where the child presents a significant danger to him or herself or where there is a significant risk of major further offending and severe damage to community . |
| 24 | ‘ And we are ready for a few strong pep talks before the matches at Woodbrook ! |
| 25 | The launching of the United Nations Decade for Women began in Britain with the passing of Equal Pay and Anti-Sex Discrimination legislation , and so long as women 's demands were not seen as too extreme , and were easily satisfied by a few minor modifications in the administration of sexual injustice , then the liberal socialist establishment seemed happy to make the appropriate gestures . |