Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transverse effects have been examined in a few instances . |
| 2 | The possibility of a title going ‘ out of print ’ if selection decisions are delayed must also be considered — though this is unlikely if orders are placed within a few months of publication . |
| 3 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 4 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 5 | And despite their higher incomes , they rarely become rich because their activities are limited to the few months during the year when the climate is favourable for construction work . |
| 6 | First impressions , and they are formed within a few seconds of listening to these headphones , are of an unveiled immediacy , very extended high-frequency response and seamless midrange . |
| 7 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 8 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |
| 9 | Suddenly he is more relaxed and confident and those horrible little worms of self-doubt which are perpetually burrowing away in a golfer 's head are banished for a few holes , anyway . |
| 10 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 11 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 12 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 13 | All the beauty that ought to be but rarely is , all the promises of perfection are caught in a few moments of that iridescent light . |
| 14 | And the results are expected within a few weeks . |
| 15 | The four have undergone doping tests and the results are expected within a few days . |
| 16 | As explained earlier , it is therefore important to avoid the use of independent overflow areas except as a safety precaution ; the one exception to this is when updates are grouped in a few areas . |
| 17 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 18 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 19 | Career family home — all had been ruined in a few seconds . |
| 20 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 21 | The winds at lower altitudes have been measured at a few locations by landers as they descended through the atmosphere . |
| 22 | This is a very laborious and exacting technique and , to date , it has only been used with a few plants . |
| 23 | The hit man has been called in a few times to finish off Jeffrey Probyn yet never once has he managed to carry out his murderous brief . |
| 24 | These are approximations in which the very large number of particles are replaced by a few quantities . |
| 25 | Those girls who attempt to escape are found in a few days . |
| 26 | Sands and gravels deposited by water flowing from the melting glaciers are restricted to a few localities and there are no major raised beach deposits resulting from sea level changes relative to the land surface . |
| 27 | Insights into the actual personality are restricted to a few words under the heading ‘ recreations ’ . |
| 28 | Although the funded consultant posts for junior doctors ' hours will help , these have been concentrated in a few specialties , and the recession has provoked concerns that the rate of consultant expansion may even fall . |
| 29 | This increase in greenhouse gases is expected to eventually force global temperatures to rise by 2 to 5 °C , although the full amount of warming will be delayed for a few decades because of oceanic thermal inertia . |
| 30 | With great reluctance , Reagan bowed to pressure from his advisers and compromised the Kemp-Roth principle somewhat by agreeing that the first cut should be delayed for a few months and reduced to 5 per cent in the first year with 10 per cent cuts in years two and three . |