Example sentences of "[noun] by [art] few " in BNC.

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1 The aim of statistics is to represent a large amount of data by a few simple parameters and the mean of the Normal distribution is one of the most important of these .
2 The aim of statistics is to represent a large amount of data by a few simple parameters and the mean of the Normal distribution is one of the most important of these .
3 It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on .
4 ‘ That 's a patch of grass a few feet by a few feet , ’ I informed him , suddenly aware that Mr Palmer had never visited Chelsea Terrace in his life .
5 After Fawn Hall , a break was arranged before the second act in which , after excursions by a few minor players , North was to appear .
6 The ban itself , while it seems to be justified , appears to be the culmination of an orchestrated plan by a few Ethiopian students .
7 They had little hope of bringing up fresh provisions in these conditions , and if they lengthened their lines by a few more miles they would have no hope at all .
8 ‘ It is important for their standing as a profession that such antics by the few are never repeated .
9 At Monza , he beat Jochen Rindt by a few feet and the championship was his , even though he did not win another race that season .
10 " Ah , " he said , when almost out of sight , back in the depths of the room , not far from the small winding-stair he had entered the room by a few minutes earlier .
11 South Pole concentration of carbon dioxide lags behind that of Mauna Loa by a few ppm in any given year , consistent with the interpretation that most of the carbon dioxide is emitted in the northern hemisphere and that there is a time-lag in the mixing of the atmosphere between hemispheres .
12 For index futures there is clear evidence that the futures price leads the spot price by a few minutes , while for lags of a day the evidence is much weaker .
13 Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) .
14 Consultation takes time : policy-writing by a few is more speedy , but also less effective in the long term for reasons which are suggested later .
15 By the 1930s , the grass flying strip at Monkton , later to be developed into Prestwick Airport , was in regular use by a few pilots , and the aerobatic displays of travelling ‘ flying circuses ’ were a novelty in various parts of Ayrshire .
16 ‘ It 's not a matter of Sun missing volume by a few days , ’ it said , ‘ but by weeks . ’
17 The result is that short field performance has been addressed , the propeller pitch has been made finer , reducing the take-off roll to some 804 feet ( hard surface ) , and cutting the cruise performance by a few knots to around 100 .
18 Among other things , it was found that index futures prices lead spot prices by a few minutes in the USA .
19 The Campaign had not been successful in influencing the Trade Unions , possibly because it had been officially characterized as an individual agitation by a few wealthy members .
20 Yet the reality is starkly different , with loss-making occupancy levels and recession-restrained spending by the few business and leisure tourists that can be attracted now , at little more than cost , due to the fierce competition in this thin market .
21 To ask , for instance , ‘ Why can a person not doubt who , or what , he meant ? ’ ( 7 , 27 ) , is to exhibit one 's fascination by a few , favoured language games and one 's wish to assimilate others to them .
22 West Mercia police are checking for possible links between the Telford incident and another close by a few weeks ago when a horse was slashed .
23 Hardraw Force is the highest surface waterfall in the country ( although exceeded in height by a few underground streams descending into potholes , Fell Beck in Gaping Gill being a notable example ) and the most beautiful .
24 For the past 31 years , Scottish-bred salmon returning to your country 's most famous rivers , the Tweed , Forth , Tay , Dee , Don , the Esks , Spey and many others , have been intercepted at sea in enormous numbers by a few English boat fishermen .
25 Perhaps for this reason above any other , aromatherapy has sometimes been dismissed out of hand by a few dyed-in-the-wool traditionalists because they believe a certain amount of discomfort must be felt if it 's to do us any good !
26 To set laws by the few jaws —
27 In Lo stadio di Wimbledon , the young researcher is drawn in search of his elusive quarry by the few traces that remain : the occasional photograph ; a few letters and other writings ; the memories of surviving contemporaries .
28 He said : ‘ The turntable ladder only just fitted into the churchyard by a few inches .
29 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 .
30 This extension , overlapped the Crystal Palace tram route by a few yards .
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