Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.

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1 If it were to happen in a few year 's time when we have the lottery money , then I think the Sutherland Collection Collection is something that anybody concerned with heritage should make the highest possible priority .
2 But the pathway to discovery was established and the scale on which resources were expended to make these discoveries represents a fantastic extravagance when it is compared with the few thousands of pounds available to Florey and his colleagues , and even with the subsequent development of the original penicillins in the United States .
3 Throughout the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and through to the forties it was sustained by a few ambitious but poorly funded independent companies whose efforts received limited exposure .
4 They came to a halt at a barrier , assuming it was manned by a few nervous Italians .
5 Its herdbook was formed in 1892 and there was a breed society from 1920 to 1938 but it was reconstructed from a few remaining individuals , with the result that there was considerable inbreeding and a particularly popular bull , widely used for his whiteness , was later found to have spread a serious genetic defect ( hypoplasia ) correlated to the degree of whiteness .
6 It was used for a few emergency landings by Royal Air Force planes during the recent Falklands War .
7 This had no very radical consequences : it was dropped after a few years , Diodorus says ( xi.87 ) , because too many of the prominent citizens were thereby discouraged from engaging in political life .
8 It was happening with a few students because I was still teaching for two or three months after ‘ Surfing ’ was released .
9 It was left behind a few days ago , Ramsbum does n't know by whom , and no one 's claimed it . ’
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