Example sentences of "of a few [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The custodianship of the path had become the prerogative of a few specialists with a fund of empirical knowledge which they gravely applied to securing the smooth passage of the Wheel . |
| 2 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 3 | I knew the paths well and it was a journey of a few kilometres as the crow flies or , as they say in Italy , a volo d'uccello . |
| 4 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 5 | Virginia like most of the mainland colonies consisted of a few ports with an extensive hinterland that was left untouched until the coastal sections had been fairly fully settled . |
| 6 | However , there was a delay of a few minutes from the start of the experiment before the chicks ate their first camouflaged rice grains . |
| 7 | Pathos is created only by the sacrifice of a few members of the virtuous side , mostly old ones like Théoden or Dáin , or peripheral ones like Háma and Halbarad and the list of mere names in the Rohan dirge after the Pelennor Fields . |
| 8 | particles are stopped by a sheet of aluminium and a have a range of a few metres in the air . |
| 9 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
| 10 | It was in a sad little side street — one of a few survivors from the era of terraced housing before the sprawling council estate was built in the fifties . |
| 11 | In this context the loss of a few passengers to the Channel Tunnel is a relatively minor issue . |
| 12 | We flew back to Mahe and straight on to Praslin for a stay of a few days with the intention of taking day-trips to the smaller islands of Cousin and La Digue . |
| 13 | ( It was only a matter of a few days before a faster one appeared . ) |
| 14 | What you need is a break or a holiday so count your pennies and weigh up your chances of a few days in the sun or short spell staying with friends . |
| 15 | in Director of Public Prosecutions v. Byrne [ 1991 ] R.T.R. 119 , 125 , all based , as it seems to me , on a misreading of a few words in an earlier judgment as enunciating a proposition which simply can not stand with the statutory language . |
| 16 | As for England , although the lute was played at the beginning of the century , the only music for it in any source earlier than c. 1540 consists of a few pieces in the British Library manuscript , Royal App. 58 ( see p. 186 ) , two of which bear titles showing that they were settings of songs by Sir Thomas Wyatt ( ‘ Hevyn and erth ’ ) and Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey ( ‘ In winter 's just return ’ ) . |
| 17 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 18 | Here , for example , is Bassano 's version of a few bars of the soprano part of Palestrina 's ‘ Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas ’ : |
| 19 | An early hostility to capitalist oppression and a refusal to contemplate co-operation with social democratic reformers was transformed in the space of a few years into a wide-ranging crusade against fascism in which geniune sympathisers of whatever creed were welcome participants . |
| 20 | For one thing , the war was only a matter of a few years in the past and the number of potential suitors must have been severely limited , especially of the right intellect and calibre . |
| 21 | Journalists must be told that this is a speculative lunch with only a small information content and that the general intent is to discuss the subject in broad terms with the injection of a few ideas from the PROs . |
| 22 | In the space of approximately the last quarter of the nineteenth century positivist criminology ‘ developed from the idiosyncratic concerns of a few individuals into a programme of investigation and social action which attracted support throughout the whole of Europe and North America ’ ( Garland , 1985a ) . |
| 23 | The group was formed by the concerted actions of a few individuals in the area of the Yellow Creek , near Middlesboro , Kentucky in an attempt to clean up and prevent further pollution in their local stream which has been contaminated by a local tannery sending the untreated waste from its chemical processing into the sewage treatment plant of the city of Middlesboro . |
| 24 | The cost of evening courses or those consisting of a few sessions in a school of nursing cost considerably less than residential week long courses or part-time variations held over a period of several months . |
| 25 | But , despite the much-publicized flirtations of a few aristocrats with the centre parties , the Tories are still the natural home for the landed gentry . |