Example sentences of "to [adj] [noun] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He had lost his bearings on a trip to nearby shops a few weeks earlier .
2 Depending on the particular species , dodder vines range from very slender forms as fine as human hair to coarse ones a few millimetres in diameter .
3 The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road .
4 I know that he has first-hand experience of the benefits of GM schools , as the school that used to be known as Wold Newton transferred to grant-maintained status a few months ago and is showing the way and what can be achieved as a result of a move to grant-maintained status .
5 … having myself graduated in Business over 40 years ago , there seems to be a remarkable cycle in which we return to particular models every few decades .
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