Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 2 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 3 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 4 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 5 | An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them . |
| 6 | Even that will be used up within a few months , when further recourse to the IMF will be inescapable . |
| 7 | In this way , the small proportion of white cats that can hear will become more common and the defect could , in theory , be wiped out after a few generations . |
| 8 | We will be reporting back in a few weeks ' time about this case and whether we have achieved a lasting and muzzle-free peace treaty between the battling Yorkies ! |
| 9 | A small budget might be swallowed up with a few very expensive cases . |
| 10 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |
| 11 | From a conservationist viewpoint , Hong Kong 's problem can be summed up in a few words : too many people . |
| 12 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 13 | But officials insist that Poland 's national telephone company , PTTP , will be protected only for a few more years and will then be left to go bankrupt if it can not compete against privately owned network operators . |
| 14 | I was doing things I knew that I would be doing properly in a few years . |
| 15 | And this information will be linguistically analyzed , and then used to help compile the new dictionary which will be coming out in a few years . |
| 16 | Even if there are relatively good overall stocks of rural council houses , they may be concentrated mainly into a few larger settlements , and persons who need to work in the more remote or smaller settlements can be severely disadvantaged . |
| 17 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 18 | For Mill it 's very important that citizens are educated for their role and although participation on a na national level has to be something that can be restricted only to the few , Mill nevertheless wants active participation of the citizens in other aspects . |
| 19 | That most of these exotic names , these exotic Puritan names , are to be found just in the few villages on the borders of East Sussex and Kent that , and are , are to be found in the fifteen nineties to sixteen hundreds . |
| 20 | Back neck stitches can be run on to a few rows of waste yarn and removed leaving you with a set of shoulder stitches on each side . |
| 21 | Even he , however , confessed that it was difficult to control men who had not been accustomed to organization , whose " idea was that once a union was formed everything should be put right in a few hours " . |
| 22 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 23 | Booksellers also tend to prefer not to be associated exclusively with a few authorities or institutions , so that they themselves are less vulnerable to any changes in those libraries ' policies . |
| 24 | ( The Soviet stance vis-à-vis Iraq had hardened noticeably during November with disillusionment over the expectation that 1,000 Soviet nationals would be allowed out within a few weeks following the Oct. 28-9 visit of Yevgeny Primakov [ see p. 37758 ] . |
| 25 | Lothar replied that he simply had a skin complaint that could be cleared up in a few days . |
| 26 | The first is in relation to debtor-creditor-supplier agreements where the amount owed is to be paid off in a few instalments . |