Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [art] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a good idea to do this for a few more days before the horse travels . |
| 2 | Some of the few inspiring things in the whole gallery come from the 1951 Festival Of Britain exhibition . |
| 3 | Fixed enemy guns fired a shell every two or three minutes on each of the few well-known routes with the accuracy of long practice . |
| 4 | It does not move them that the cost of looking after the hundreds of thousands of Thais who are likely to be infected by 1995 will far exceed that of a few cancelled holidays . |
| 5 | The American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote standing at a tall refrigerator — a chair and table being too cramped for the big mountain man — and he dropped unnumbered sheets , each with a few scrawled words , into a cardboard box at his feet . |
| 6 | Thirteen thousand minds , memories , loves , sensations , worlds , universes — because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself- and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud . |
| 7 | Four boys had beaten him up , forced him into a laundry basket and left him helpless under a cold shower , and all for a few ill-judged words and a bar of soap . |
| 8 | Soon an object reaches meteorite size , and then finishes up as a planet-sized object , all within a few thousand years . |
| 9 | Everyone 's position was dubious in some respect : no one had been able to stand aloof from the efforts of Philip and Mary to turn England back to popery , and all except the few convinced Romanists in the village hoped that the days of compulsory religion and inquisitions would now be over . |
| 10 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 11 | Working with environmentalist groups , the Guarani Indians argue that Brazil can not afford to lose any more of the few remaining areas of Atlantic rainforest , of which only 5 per cent is intact . |