Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 2 | Without bothering to confirm the report , Guretzky-Cornitz passed it on to Army HQ , embellished with a few boastful addenda of his own . |
| 3 | All of their problems could have been solved with a few simple decisions but they seemed to have been robbed of their ability to think straight . ’ |
| 4 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 5 | This was because the scientific elite of the Athenaeum , on whom the correspondents relied , were well aware that research on controlled thermonuclear reactions was already being furtively pursued in a few British laboratories . |
| 6 | Eventually , once the temperature had dropped to a few thousand degrees , and electrons and nuclei no longer had enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic attraction between them , they would have started combining to form atoms . |
| 7 | Her smoking experiences , hitherto , had been confined to a few borrowed puffs from Walter Ash 's cigarettes , and some experimental moments , at the age of twelve , in the school bicycle shed . |
| 8 | On the one hand , production was modernized in ever larger factories and ownership was concentrated in a network of trusts , cartels and syndicates increasingly dominated by a few major banks . |
| 9 | However , until quite recently , the possibility of making recordings in Britain was dominated by a few large companies involved in manufacturing and distributing records as well as originating them . |
| 10 | But the same writer also showed his affinity with the notions of contemporary Christendom by observing that battles were won by a few renowned knights , and the army which had ‘ even one more famous warrior than its enemy must … win ’ . |
| 11 | Somewhere ahead in the crags of Kielderhead Moor a hawk was whistling , a piercing sound in the lonely valley , overlain for a few heart-stopping moments by the snarl of a jet . |
| 12 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 13 | BETTING shop manager Sian Collier was stabbed to death after being robbed of a few hundred pounds by a regular punter . |
| 14 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 15 | Leading international companies are discussing the latest recycling technology , showing what can be done with a few old bottles … and a little imagination . |
| 16 | Personally , I doubt that any of the current technologies will seriously challenge a good presentation made with a few well-designed 35mm slides . |
| 17 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 18 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
| 19 | The range of possibilities for the pace and form of change can be seen in a few specific industries in each of the three sectors : national resource processing , manufacturing and services . |
| 20 | Before he had left for the airport , he had attended to a few last minute details in his study at Buckingham Palace . |
| 21 | A further wave of activity occurs after the interviews have taken place , and then things should tail off as offers are made to a few selected individuals . |
| 22 | Murtach had learned of a great wolf pack that seemed to roam west of the Skriaig and had been seen by a few desperate hunters seeking deer beyond Ralarth 's borders . |
| 23 | Supported by four Landrovers and equipped with a few flimsy spares , they sported jeans and shorts rather than jodhpurs , tee-shirts instead of ties and jackets , while on their heads they wore cheches — and definitely not pith-helmets. but if the style was different , the spirit was certainly reminiscent of those pioneer days . |
| 24 | The larches drooped gracefully , dappled with their fresh green growth ; the hedges grew shaggy and a deep fringe of rushes , sprinkled with a few yellow flags , bordered the lake . |
| 25 | Decorate with grated orange rind and serve warm with yogurt sprinkled with a few poppy seeds . |
| 26 | Whether it has been recently fired will only be shown with a few additional laboratory tests . |
| 27 | Thus , seemingly infinite difficulties may be distilled into a few tangible problems . |
| 28 | We have seen accomplished within a few brief months or years reforms to which we should have assigned , not decades , but generations . |
| 29 | Produced by TVS , Men of Science is now being shown in a few other areas for those not already suffering exophthalmos after an evening of Rising Damp , Cuffy , The Avengers and Pro-Celebrity Golf |
| 30 | It has already been used in a few clinical trials in normal volunteers and diabetics . |