Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [prep] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You do n't want a firm whose work of good , but who may leave you high and not-so-dry for a few weeks .
2 It had stopped snowing now and the sky was clear and black with a few stars .
3 Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work .
4 The improvement in arthritis , gout , blood pressure , diabetes , or blood cholesterol level may be dramatic , and evident within a few weeks or months of a dietary programme .
5 She remained still and unmoving for a few moments , allowing her head to settle , listening to the muffled noises from the house , the only recognizable sound the squeal of laughter from her daughter 's room further down the hall .
6 I 've been feeling headachy and dizzy for a few days now . ’
7 Profoundly subordinate , and remote from the few voices of intellectual protest , trade unions could provide no effective challenge to bourgeois hegemony ; rather they were firmly embedded in the mystical pragmatism , rationalism , evolutionism and nationalism of the Victorian epoch .
8 Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards .
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