Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of Mercury it is estimated that , just as is the case today ( Figure 8.2 ) , the slightly higher cratering rate than on the Moon has been a feature of the last few 1000 Ma . |
| 2 | The real significance of these comparisons remains unknown , as do the real workings of the dolphin mind , but it seems that dolphins and porpoises achieved their modern enlarged brains about 15–20 million years ago , whereas the evolution of the human brain is a phenomenon of the past few million years at the most . |
| 3 | When this unlikely idea was first launched in England and Canada , the exact pattern of the past few million years of pole reversals had yet to be charted . |
| 4 | The definite article is important , for what it suggests is that the modern notion of sexuality — both the importance we assign to it , and the theoretical unification it implies — is an historical construct of the past few hundred years . |
| 5 | Last year GM 's turnover was $123.6bn ( £77bn ) — comfortably more than the gross domestic product of a good few developing countries . |