Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | You do n't want a firm whose work of good , but who may leave you high and not-so-dry for a few weeks . |
2 | And all about a few roses . |
3 | Who would n't jump at the chance of spending a free six months in the Southern Hemisphere , flights paid , car provided and all for a few afternoons coaching ? |
4 | It had stopped snowing now and the sky was clear and black with a few stars . |
5 | Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work . |
6 | The improvement in arthritis , gout , blood pressure , diabetes , or blood cholesterol level may be dramatic , and evident within a few weeks or months of a dietary programme . |
7 | The hotel , catering and tourist industry is the second largest employer in the United Kingdom , a major contributor to the balance of payments , and one of the few industries which is showing , and will continue to show , real growth . |
8 | and one of the few movies where he 's not going around shouting he was drinking , but he was n't shouting |
9 | For the first time , an entirely independent body had uncovered a direct statistical link between Britain 's biggest nuclear power station and one of the few types of cancer which displayed a clear pathway back to radiation exposure . |
10 | The reserve of Folkstumyren is on Dovrefjell and , as the name suggests , is a large mire or marsh and one of the few places in Norway where cranes breed . |
11 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
12 | Sotheby 's open the Impressionist season with Matisse 's ‘ Fatma , la mulatresse ’ painted in 1912 and one of the few pictures of this period likely to come on the market . |
13 | I do n't care what you say , they really are marvellous creatures and one of the few animals in God 's world that do absolutely nothing but good . |
14 | The Israelis , fielding five international masters and two FIDE masters against Bayern 's six grandmasters , went down by the narrow margin of 7–5 after IM Leonid Zaid ( a recent arrival from the USSR and one of the few men alive with a plus score against Kasparov ) shocked the Germans by defeating Kindermann and Bischoff . |
15 | When the idea of a Royal Commission was in circulation , lawyers within the ranks of the Government , notably Sam Silkin , the Attorney General and one of the few front-benchers on either side to have taken a close interest in penal reform , and Alex Lyon , a Minister of State at the Home Office , pressed for the opportunity to be grasped to make an authoritative assessment of the arguments for a public prosecution service independent of the police . |
16 | ( 1983 ) and one of the few volumes in its field is Herington ( 1984 ) . |
17 | The spatial complexity and dramatic lighting of the staircase at Windsor had been achieved by May on a smaller scale at the earlier Eltham Lodge , Kent , one of the quintessential Restoration houses , built in 1664 for Sir John Shaw , and one of the few buildings by the architect to survive . |
18 | ‘ The truth is men like gadgets , they like to control their environment , ’ points out Dr Margaret Shotton , author of Computer Addiction ? and one of the few academics to have taken a serious look at video game culture . |
19 | She remained still and unmoving for a few moments , allowing her head to settle , listening to the muffled noises from the house , the only recognizable sound the squeal of laughter from her daughter 's room further down the hall . |
20 | I 've been feeling headachy and dizzy for a few days now . ’ |
21 | Profoundly subordinate , and remote from the few voices of intellectual protest , trade unions could provide no effective challenge to bourgeois hegemony ; rather they were firmly embedded in the mystical pragmatism , rationalism , evolutionism and nationalism of the Victorian epoch . |
22 | Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards . |