Example sentences of "[verb] from [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally , little jumble could be expected from the few cottages on the headland , but Alex Mair , anxious to associate the power station with the community , had put up a notice on the staff board and the two tea chests were usually fairly full by the time the October sale came round . |
| 2 | Gamble argues that the adversary politics thesis over-generalises from a few instances to the whole of economic policy . |
| 3 | It will separate and purify molecules ranging from a few milligrams to several grams from solution . |
| 4 | The amount of venom injected varies from species to species , ranging from a few microlitres in highly venomous sea snakes to six or seven millilitres in the diamondback rattlers and pit vipers . |
| 5 | According to the 1989 census , Russians accounted for just over half ( 50.8 per cent ) of the total population ; the balance was accounted for by a hundred or more different national groups , ranging from a few hundred Negidals in the Far East to the major Slavic and Muslim groups which occupied the west and south of the country as well as Russia proper . |
| 6 | For stable samples we rarely need to obtain spectra in a hurry , and commercial spectrometers generally operate on timescales ranging from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 7 | ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse . |
| 8 | Faulting takes place through sudden , rapid movements over distances ranging from a few centimetres to several metres . |
| 9 | The mothers talking in this book are mainly in their mid to late teens , with children whose ages range from a few months to four years . |
| 10 | Most of these thriving places had been old market centres ; only Oldham had grown from a few scattered moorland hamlets . |
| 11 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
| 12 | The literature of the castle , published by the 29th Laird of Dunvegan , John Macleod of Macleod , makes the business plain : ‘ Since the castle was first opened to the public more than forty years ago , the number of visitors has risen from a few hundred to tens of thousands ’ — many of them Macleod descendants from the New World . |
| 13 | Alternatively , cements may nucleate on grains as separate , or disconformable , crystals ( Fig. 5.24a ) , or they may grow from a few nucleation points so that they enclose the grains as poikilotopic cements ( Fig. 5.24b ) ; they may be the same mineralogy as the grains they enclose . |
| 14 | The timber lid is in two parts and could be easily made from a few lengths of timber stained or painted to match the surroundings . |
| 15 | There was a happy burble of voices which came from a few children discussing some design they were doing . |
| 16 | Watch from a few yards away and you will see an elegant rodent , about the size and shape of a hare but with long stilt-like legs , step daintily towards the hole , nose lifted warily . |
| 17 | Essentially , however , a muscle is composed of a number of long fibres , each measuring from a few hundred µm in diameter . |
| 18 | I need only quote from a few Welsh Office publications : |
| 19 | As Tudge ( 1988 ) discusses , the facility of plants to regenerate from a few cells is related to the characteristic known as totipotency . |
| 20 | We heard from the few local women who did attend how they took the law into their own hands and arranged regular supplies of contraceptives from the North . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The number of neurones in a brain varies from a few hundred in simple invertebrates up to approximately 10 11 in man . |
| 23 | The time span of observation in these studies varies from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 24 | ‘ No , you wo n't have to , ’ I told him , ‘ my luck 's on the turn ; it 's going to be a tremendous year , though it 's true that just now one 's recovering from a few debacles . ’ |
| 25 | In the Sheriff Court the adjustment period can range from a few weeks to a few months , depending on the whim of the Sheriff . |
| 26 | The length of single eruptive episode , which can range from a few days to several years , will depend on the eruptive energy available once the ground surface is broken . |
| 27 | Let me read you two or three other verses from that same book of Hebrews that we read from a few moments ago . |
| 28 | It is easy to spot from a few feet away . |
| 29 | The hype surrounding Justin v John Fashanu did not materialise but Justin came on , only to miss from a few yards as Sanchez intervened , leading to his injury and the booking of the Wimbledon physio . |
| 30 | A thing that I 've heard from a few directions recently is erm the thought of work shadowing . |