Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , in Britain as in much of Europe , soils change markedly over a few miles or tens of miles , so targets must be set to protect the most sensitive soils , such as those based on sand or overlying hard , naturally ‘ base-poor ’ rocks . |
| 2 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 3 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 4 | As David Shulman , equity strategist at Salomon Brothers , was the first to point out , the danger for investors these days lies less with the few hot shares whose rise he misses than with the many dubious ones already in his portfolio . |
| 5 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
| 6 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |
| 7 | Although they were gruesome , the markets virtually ignored these widely expected figures to concentrate instead on a few signs of impending economic recovery , such as improved unemployment figures . |
| 8 | They were almost certainly endowed with highly developed sensory and intuitive powers seen only in the few remaining native tribes alive today . |
| 9 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |
| 10 | Of 149 respondents , 18 subjects agreed firmly with the statement that " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " , and a further 23 thought this was perhaps true . |
| 11 | In the Hull survey one of the statements to which respondents were invited to agree was " Dreams occur only in the few moments before you wake up " ; 18 endorsed this statement , and 23 thought it was maybe true , out of 149 . |
| 12 | Even so , it was not unusual for friends and kinsmen to drop in for a few minutes , an hour , to see the news or a comedy . |
| 13 | Our takings went up by a few shillings each week and pretty soon we had to expand and move the kitchens upstairs , where Malc 's Mom made our famous home-made pies ' . |
| 14 | San Vincenzo is a lovely resort of clear soft sands interrupted only by a few emerging reefs . |
| 15 | At 11.15 a.m. the 29 enthusiastic players teed off from a few tees . |
| 16 | However , most mares settle down after a few weeks . |
| 17 | Its populist mission is to ‘ challenge the fallacy that the arts and humanities belong only to a few ’ . |
| 18 | The referee was weak and allowed the Russians to get away with a few naughty episodes but to be honest Liverpool were n't that far behind . |
| 19 | In a country the size of Zambia , with few telephones in rural areas and few reporters based anywhere outside the few major towns , it is impossible to check such a story speedily . |
| 20 | The Festival is showing a selection of classics mixed in with a few notable recent releases . |
| 21 | You 've said ‘ Fire ! ’ and seen the price of a dozen cameras blow away in a few seconds ' worth of flash and bang , with nothing left at the end to stick in the family album . |
| 22 | Slowly constrained by muscles mostly in the grip of rigor mortis , the zombies advanced inexorably on the few remaining Marines . |
| 23 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |