Example sentences of "but in [art] few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 2 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 3 | But in a few cases it may emerge that the very question was considered by Parliament in passing the legislation . |
| 4 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
| 5 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 6 | But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism . |
| 7 | In most regions , the assassination tended to unite the badly fragmented Congress Party , but in a few regions it had the opposite result , which caused that party to gain less ground in those states ) . |
| 8 | For a typical car , the carpet will only be about 2 cm thick , and will be quite short-lived but in the few seconds it lasts before collapsing it will transfer most of its heat to the road . |