Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must know , because we told him and everybody else at the time , that the directive on pregnant women went through the Council of Ministers on the European Community a few weeks ago , with only the Italians voting against . |
| 2 | Amused speculation on whether the new vicar could really be casting lustful glances at the choir-mistress produced an effective antidote to the emotional tension a few minutes earlier . |
| 3 | FORMER Darlington mayor Jimmy Whelan , expelled from the Labour Party a few years back for alleged municipal disloyalty , is strolling the town with a ‘ Vote Alan Milburn ’ badge in his lapel . |
| 4 | On the brown surface a few globules of half-sour milk swam and coalesced . |
| 5 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 6 | The cost of a united Germany is going to give the German Chancellor a few headaches , but when you consider what a mess Berlin was less than fifty years ago , the future for this city looks brilliant . |
| 7 | On the German side a few bombs were dropped to keep up the pretence , but they were left strictly alone by fighter aircraft , of course . |
| 8 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 9 | I 'm watching a silent T.V. The flickering light from the screen changes the mood of the dark room every few seconds , but I 'm impervious to mood . |
| 10 | In the early days a few Members complained about the new lighting , but some adjustments were made and the Committee reported no further objections on these grounds ( although a survey of MPs attitudes following the introduction of television , which was conducted by the IBA , showed that 59% of the respondents found the lighting in the Chamber too bright , compared with 31% before the experiment began ) . |
| 11 | It is better to lose a steady two or three pounds a week than to achieve a drastic weight loss more dramatically , only to replace the lost pounds a few months later . |
| 12 | At the inevitable inquest a few weeks later which , mercifully , thanks to Edna 's and Bert 's discretion , the appalling weather and her own reclusive way of life , was held almost in private , she sat in the court , her head bowed , her once handsome face lined and drawn . |
| 13 | The minute for the first of April begins " In the spring of the present year a few friends convened themselves together for the purpose of considering the possibility of opening a News & Reading Room . " |
| 14 | The annihilation of the Baltic fleet a few days later in the Straits of Tsushima was almost unbelievable and was the first defeat of a great power in modern history by an Asian state and for that reason alone Japan 's success might have been an example for Vietnam . |
| 15 | Vaquero offers the city-bound reader a few minutes to escape to a time and place that we are losing ’ . |
| 16 | You may need to carry out the above exercises a few times before you get any results . |
| 17 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 18 | A second example involves an argument by means of which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahé claimed to have refuted the Copernican theory a few decades after the first publication of that theory . |
| 19 | Though the Welsh version continues to go out on the day it is filmed , the new audience will be regaled with story lines familiar to the Welsh audience a few weeks later . |
| 20 | Out in the open firth a few gannets were flying about , watching for any fish movement and occasionally making what seemed like exploratory dives . |
| 21 | Reduced to helpless laughter when the young man a few yards away fell headlong into a gulley , forgetting to look where she was putting her own feet , she trod on something hard — and , to her utter astonishment , found a leprechaun . |
| 22 | This entails starting early and topping up with repeat spraying on the young growth every few days . |
| 23 | He glanced around and noticed a hole in the sandy bank a few yards away . |
| 24 | It brought onto Chinese territory Russian forces whose reluctance to withdraw from the province of Manchuria sparked off the Russo-Japanese War a few years later . |
| 25 | You could move the more aggressive fish to a separate tank — or even the breeding trap — and return it to the main aquarium a few days later , when it will be unlikely to go on the attack , as it will in effect , be the ‘ new fish ’ . |
| 26 | Rachel walked out on to the main road a few minutes later feeling overwhelmed with guilt . |
| 27 | Erm I think we covered it briefly but erm covered it perhaps in slightly greater detail when when we had the preliminary interview a few weeks ago . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ I was on the verge of the England squad with Norwich and played for the Under-21 side a few times . |
| 29 | In April , however , our colleagues on the lovely island of Arran managed to upstage their rivals who had featured in the local newspaper a few weeks previously . |
| 30 | There was a general feeling among the local community a few years ago that academic standards at the school had slipped , and many parents opted for other schools in the area for their children . |