Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armed with a basic knowledge of the major compositional schemes , the prospective collector or student should be able to recognize many of the more distinctive contemporary rugs and limit the less obvious ones to a few possible sources . |
| 2 | WONDERFUL WOBURN produced a number of surprises this year at the annual gathering of the de Havilland Moth Club in the picturesque grounds of Woburn Abbey over the weekend of August 15/16 although strong winds and generally poor weather in the few days leading up to the event meant that the number of foreign Moths arriving was down on previous years . |
| 3 | Candida set about improving Sara 's still boyish figure with a few handkerchiefs and pins . |
| 4 | Jean had straight brown hair with a few layers cut into the top ; stylist Patrick Cameron , Artistic Director for the Alan Paul group of salons , suggested a tousled look which would suit her heart-shaped face . |
| 5 | As for the mild , ramshackle Austro-Hungarian empire , it gave Bosnia peace and reasonably humane government for a few decades , until Austria-Hungary itself was broken up in 1918 — to the regret , quite soon , of many of its erstwhile subjects . |
| 6 | There was a rather sombre silence for a few seconds , broken eventually by Maidstone who said : ‘ Right ! |
| 7 | This was mainly rural farmland with a few market towns and small coastal resorts . |
| 8 | Boats were moored to the main bank , mostly small powerboats with a few dinghies . |
| 9 | In actual fact ‘ it was to find its full interpretation in a new concept of matter no longer made of immutable atoms but by relatively impermanent associations of a few fundamental particles , themselves liable to change and transformation ’ . |
| 10 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 11 | Adjust by fractionally increasing size of a few spaces . |
| 12 | Within fifty years West Ham was transformed from an essentially agricultural economy with a few nucleated settlements to the industrial heartland of south-east England . |
| 13 | This task , in any comprehensive sense , is beyond the scope of the present book , and I shall confine myself to a very schematic presentation of a few salient issues . |
| 14 | We may not be lovers any more , but we 're still very good friends despite a few attempts to pull us apart . |
| 15 | Mr Wright is an accomplished narrative historian and has made very good use of the few surviving scraps of contemporary , or nearly contemporary , accounts written by members of the various civilisations . |