Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | They discovered that the first-order autocorrelation of the mispricing series was 0.93 , indicating that mispricings tended to persist over periods of the order of a few hours . |
| 2 | Shortly thereafter , it was discovered that these supposedly indivisible atoms are made up of electrons revolving about a nucleus with energies of the order of a few electron-volts . |
| 3 | For bond stretches involving heavy atoms , where hω e is of the order of a few hundred cm -1 , hχ e may be of the order of 1 cm -1 or less . |
| 4 | The characteristic core levels of the constituent atoms remain in the molecules , with only very slight shifts in energy ( of the order of a few eV ) due to the electrostatic charge on each atom . |
| 5 | Something of the kind seems to have happened in the case of the European communist parties ; thus Santiago Carrillo ( 1977 ) , in the passage quoted earlier , says plainly that ‘ the political system established in Western Europe … is in essentials valid ’ , and this is far removed from the outlook of some earlier Marxists — and of the members of a few left-wing groupuscules even today — who talk about ‘ smashing the bourgeois state ’ . |
| 6 | I have n't seen my , never saw my grandfather and so family has been out of the country for a few generations now . |
| 7 | Periodically Utrillo was allowed out of the asylum for a few days and occasionally he escaped . |
| 8 | They were buried in mass graves , the corpses piled one on top of the other under a few inches of soil . |
| 9 | Although this was brought about by the Gulf War and the subsequent world recession , it is certainly now exacerbated by an unrestrained and reckless war of attrition in which dollars are hauled over the top of the grain of a few inches of market share . |
| 10 | As all sand surfaces possess chance irregularities , even though they may be only of the magnitude of a few sand grains , there is a natural tendency for ripples to form . |
| 11 | When the Magistrate duly appeared the Collector , lying feverishly on his bed , asked him to take command of the garrison for a few hours . |
| 12 | Also hold the inward creases of the pleat to the back of the heading with a few hand stitches at the top of the pleat . |
| 13 | I told Mike Teague beforehand that if we lost it would mean the end of the road for a few of us . ’ |
| 14 | If condensation has n't formed at the top of the bottle in a few days , add a little more water . |
| 15 | Leaving her mother-in-law in charge of the tea-stall for a few minutes , Elizabeth went back to the inn-yard with Tamar and the coachman . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , Philippe thought I should be kept out of the way for a few days … ’ |
| 17 | And centre staff say the local community is being forced to suffer because of the actions of a few ‘ hoodlums ’ . |
| 18 | in 1843 , according to which the depths of the ocean beyond a few hundreds of metres were devoid of life . |
| 19 | It incorporates a short history of the company with a few important milestones in its development and explains the company 's current service to the processing industries . |
| 20 | THE generally held belief that the marriage of Diana and Charles has broken down seems to depend on photographs of the couple on the few occasions on which they appear together in public . |
| 21 | Hobbes , for example , bases his analysis of the nature of the state upon a few simple axioms about the bodily needs and the personal desires and aspirations of men . |
| 22 | Specialist data archives differ from the rest of the Archive in a few key ways : |
| 23 | Ruth stood in the doorway of the room for a few seconds , looking at her aunt who was drifting on the edge of sleep . |
| 24 | The spread of the habit from a few scattered locations before 1930 to a great many in 1947 was well documented ( Fisher & Hinde , 1949 ; Hinde & Fisher , 1951 ) . |
| 25 | In keeping the description of the job to a few generalized but well-understood statements , a manager can well flex the boundaries of that job to meet the dynamic thrusts of the world around and to maximize contribution . |
| 26 | Estimates of the effect of the few Concordes currently in operation are that they have a negligible impact on the ozone layer . |
| 27 | The fish jumped out of the tank on a few occasions , landing on the carpet , but was always returned to the tank in time . |
| 28 | And again , when reporting on the A & B Foursomes in January 1969 , he started as follows : ‘ There must be an increased number of wives who are convinced that there is a special weather dispensation for Harpsden , or it may be , of course , that many of them are only too glad to get the old man out of the house for a few hours on a wet Sunday . ’ |
| 29 | It achieved fame in 1860 , when a nova appeared in it and reached the seventh magnitude , altering the whole aspect of the cluster for a few nights . |
| 30 | This is a lonely and inhospitable region of rough sheep pastures , tamed only by the public road and the scraping of the earth around a few isolated crofts . |