Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus it is pointed out that support for microelectronics has been biased towards the south of the country , and it is argued that emphasis on a division between sunrise and sunset , on finance at the expense of manufacturing , on entrepreneurship and new firms as opposed to restructuring existing industries , will all encourage the confinement of the fifth wave of economic growth to a few small areas of the country . |
| 2 | California Kirkbride and Perry South both show a pattern of low investment on a few properties . |
| 3 | Moreover , he shows clearly how strategies can be grouped in terms of broad emphasis into a few types according to whether the industry is in the emergent , mature or declining phase of its life-cycle . |
| 4 | I 'm gon na lift a few mint roots Stefan and er plant them in a box of compost and put them in the warm greenhouse so they give me nice sprigs of fresh mint in a few months ' time . |
| 5 | Pisco sour proved to be a local brandy whisked up with white of egg and the juice of fresh limes with a few drops of angostura bitters lying like dark bloodstains on the white bed of foam . |
| 6 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 7 | What permitted the concentration of foreign trade in a few ports was the complementing of overseas trade by coastal trade . |
| 8 | The preparations for an " open-book " examination should rather consist of preparing adequate notes — possibly in swot-card form of all aspects of the work , with , perhaps , the support of marked passages in a few textbooks . |
| 9 | We offer help to pupils with varying needs — general learning problems , specific learning difficulties , the filling of gaps caused by changing schools and , recently , the provision of extra teaching for a few children whose educational attainment is far in excess of that of their peers . |
| 10 | This alone may well explain the presence of walled areas with a few buildings within , as at Margidunum . |
| 11 | Sterilised crypts continue to empty of functional cells for a few days , then crypts disappear and bare ulcerated areas develop . |
| 12 | Although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are plenty of good establishments within a few minutes walk . |
| 13 | The road goes through a small hamlet where there is a pond , a few square metres of tired water with a few pieces of rusty iron breaking its surface . |
| 14 | This finding may be of clinical importance in the few patients who have severe hypergastrinaemia as a result of long acting profound acid inhibition . |
| 15 | At present , therefore , it is impossible to say with any confidence whether the influence of Milan was much more than a matter of banal repetition of a few characteristic physiognomic types . |
| 16 | Thirdly , it is of fundamental importance in a few cases to consider whether the covenant is too vague to be enforced or void for uncertainty . |
| 17 | The results come hard on the heels of a forecast by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency , who says he is confident that a series of factors will lead to a ‘ relaunch ’ of nuclear power in a few years ' time . |
| 18 | If so , then decorating a sheet of mirrored glass with a few pressed flowers and framing the result can transform a useful household item into a unique and extremely attractive decorative feature . |
| 19 | Third , there was the severe deterioration of industrial relations in the few years prior to 1914 which brought with it violent strikes and syndicalism . |
| 20 | Later developments in quantum electrodynamics ( as the theory of the interaction of light and electrons is called ) have led to the calculation of effects , such as the Lamb shift in hydrogen , which agree with experiment to the limits of available accuracy of a few parts per million . |
| 21 | The Anglicans were divided — the stoutest of Irish Protestants versus a few stiff Anglo-Catholic parishes ; and in a fight the sympathies of Ramsey 's parish lay with the second . |
| 22 | What it was was a dirty patch of fenced-off sand with a few straggly trees and occasional tufts of scrawny grass . |
| 23 | After a little more than a year , she alone had transformed it into a place where the children could play in safety , a stretch of patchy grass with a few well-cared-for roses round its border , and an immensely high wall skirting the garden from one end to the other . |
| 24 | The number of flowers that can be used for the golden theme is quite large : you could choose something very simple , such as a small spray of yellow roses with a few of their own leaves and buds , or something more complicated , such as a mixture of yellow roses , mimosa , potentillas and narcissi , with a few primroses and primulas to give extra detail . |
| 25 | The more common response was a temporary lull in the onslaught of behavioural difficulties for a few months before and after adoption . |
| 26 | In so far as they established the break at eleven years of age and encouraged a different curriculum from that of the elementary school the description was apt , but these changes also refined the older system of sponsored mobility for a few . |
| 27 | The metropolis also houses a host of smaller patches of urban wasteland from a few hundred square metres to several hectares . |