Example sentences of "apart from [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has hitherto fought shy ( apart from a few marginal incentives ) of trying to increase total savings through the tax system . |
| 2 | The administration of the Famine was remarkable for the absence of nearly all leading Bolsheviks , apart from a few speeches from one or two of them . |
| 3 | Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them . |
| 4 | Apart from a few notable exceptions , all they care about is feet through the door and selling beer . |
| 5 | The business of turning bark into stoppers is very much a cottage industry , apart from a few modern factories . |
| 6 | It is exhaustive , impeccably organised , and generally well written ( apart from a few Germanicisms like telephoning ‘ over ’ instead of ‘ via ’ Sweden , and Norway 's defence being ‘ overmanned ’ instead of ‘ overwhelmed ’ ) . |
| 7 | Apart from a few minor displays , they are free of aggression toward their own kind . |
| 8 | Yet , apart from a few family friends , there was little support for such views . |
| 9 | People were aware of the hard struggle ahead and of its significance , but were generally calm and confident , apart from a few nervous expressions of the difficulties involved in conquering ‘ these vast spaces ’ . |
| 10 | Yet apart from a few scattered Tory voices , there is no public debate . |
| 11 | What they all have in common is a basic commitment that the vines should have been cultivated without the use of chemical fertilisers , pesticides , fungicides or herbicides ( except for a few age-old things like Bordeaux mixture ) , and the wine made without chemical additives or agents — apart from a few natural and/or traditional substances . |
| 12 | Apart from a few individuals the hill sheep industry has shown remarkably little concern or demonstrated any important initiative in tackling this problem . |
| 13 | However , Baxter found the people , apart from a few notable exceptions , to be rather apathetic and unresponsive to the message of the Gospel . |
| 14 | Apart from a few fanatics , there was a general disinclination to apply the laws directed against them . |
| 15 | Apart from a few policemen patrolling the quayside , the event was unremarkable . |
| 16 | Apart from a few bit parts , the rest would be real people . |
| 17 | She had concluded , with relief , that apart from a few episodes of moodiness from Sarah , they had taken it very well . |
| 18 | Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon , street crime does not exist . |
| 19 | A lack of foreign exchange means that , apart from a few Toyotas , there are virtually no new cars in Rangoon . |
| 20 | Libraries both public and institutional are disposing of books without any public debate , apart from a few over-heated outbursts in local newspapers and professional journals , forgotten as soon as read and never taken seriously . |
| 21 | What is perhaps more disturbing is Harden 's statement that , apart from a few recently introduced measures , efforts to conserve the soil resource are not being undertaken , implying that soil conservation is not an intrinsic component of local agricultural practices . |
| 22 | But apart from a few minor lines the Wüppertal line remains the only substantial operations . |
| 23 | Apart from a few technical experiments , cable services the world over rely on coaxial copper cable similar to the wires that connect the TVs in people 's living rooms to the aerials on the roof . |
| 24 | Apart from a few statutory exceptions based on tax , fraud and other predictable areas , the Salomon principle of separate legal personality is still applied to subsidiary companies . |
| 25 | Apart from a few scabs here and there and other tell-tale marks around my body my exuberance for life , living and loving , had returned . |
| 26 | Apart from a few , most additives have no nutritional value whatsoever . |
| 27 | Fortunately , the wave of crack that swept American ghettos and the Caribbean has not taken root in this country apart from a few isolated cases in the North of England . |
| 28 | ‘ Apart from a few more beers , ’ deadpans Dan , who has n't got any hair at all , and pretend to be unimpressed even by the supremely impressive . |
| 29 | Who , apart from a few latter-day Edwardians , is interested in a windbag with a funny beard , who wrote ( at great length ) about socialism , and whose ( long ) plays are comedies of ill-manners , featuring semi-melodramatic characters from a forgotten age ? |
| 30 | I was initially concerned about weatherproofing , as tongue and groove timber has no overlap ( unlike shiplap or featheredge ) , and being secondhand had a good few nail holes , but apart from a few boards showing a bit of damp , it has proved satisfactory . |