Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] few " in BNC.
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1 | Further still , despite their gaps , Eadmer 's History and Anselm 's letters together allow a remarkably complete account of royal and papal negotiations and political vicissitudes to be given for these few years . |
2 | We have even seen lecturers complete their lectures and leave the room while the students have had to sit for another few minutes taking down the last load from the blackboard ! |
3 | And all the smouldering volcanic lava of past England-Pakistan cricket argument and controversy was reignited in those few flashpoint moments , consuming the polite arms-length relations set up by those who had foreseen the dangers from the start of the tour . |
4 | Harbour improvements continued alongside the thriving coastal trade , but the biggest investment necessarily came in those few ports which dominated overseas trade . |
5 | ‘ I have looked after myself so hopefully my body will repay me by keeping going for another few years . |
6 | They had met just three months ago , yet now it seemed that the whole of her life had been crammed into those few fleeting weeks ; as if her living had had no meaning before they met and her future would have no substance if ever he left her . |
7 | There is a certain sense of camaraderie where people travel from show to show ; aside from the serious work of showing dogs , it is also a great social event with many new friendships being forged in these few weeks . |
8 | The eye-witness accounts of what happened in those few minutes naturally vary in many details , but one of the most reliable descriptions of the actual eruption of the cloud was that of Monsieur Roger Arnoux , a member of the Astronomical Society of France , who was observing from a vantage point well above and away from the town . |
9 | His Excellency showed me a film he had taken of the three northern islands of the Tonga group which — being some 300 miles north of the main island — are invariably overlooked by such few visitors as Tonga receives . |
10 | We will ensure that access to literature , religion and the creative arts is limited to those few children who are capable of appreciating them , and whose parents can afford to pay the extra costs involved . |
11 | The settlement er in all probability as we established yesterday morning , could not go within those few fields which are in the Greater York area and not in the greenbelt . |
12 | She hated even the slightest shadow to be cast over these few days . |
13 | You see , I think I was in such a state after glancing at those few pages simply because I did n't read any more . |
14 | The passage continued for another few metres . |
15 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |
16 | Her sister did not reply , confused by the question , and the anxiety that had been aroused by those few moments , during which two men had helped old Eleanor Thorne down the front path and into a waiting ambulance . |
17 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
18 | Scientific interests have been chosen for these few pages of examples because of the tendency in some quarters to assume that resource-based learning is a Humanities or Social Studies prerogative . |
19 | The same experience comes from some few words of a poet or a mystic ; it is as if the emotions of the poet that he has graven in his poem strike a response and the mind is transported . |
20 | So I mean your yourself how do you feel the town 's been changed over these few years ? |
21 | And there 'll also be at the club tomorrow morning an antiquarian bookseller , a dealer in manuscripts , and an expert in drawings , to see if there 's been the hanky-panky suggested by those few notes about Fishbane . ’ |