Example sentences of "[adj] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method I prefer , however , is just to make a play of looking at the coin after each few rubs on the elbow . |
| 2 | And spokesman Trevor East admitted : ‘ It 's been a trying few days for us and we are very disappointed to miss out again . |
| 3 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |
| 4 | It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ? |
| 5 | They spent an emotional few moments in his third-floor room . |
| 6 | he 's got a few bits , there 's still another few bits to be done you know but it just looks such a mess |
| 7 | It is important to realise that if the glider stops just within the boundary , another few feet of height could have meant a serious overshoot and perhaps a damaged aircraft . |
| 8 | Another few hours of training . |
| 9 | The pain was n't so bad , it was the breathlessness , using all his energy to suck another few seconds of life from a chest that seemed to be wrapped in rusty iron bands . |
| 10 | It took only another few steps for Mait to come within range of the other bomb . |
| 11 | We visited Emily at her school in early December , and had another few days in Harrogate , having enjoyed the conference there . |
| 12 | Well , another few weeks in prison wo n't make much difference to your brother , but it might to my niece . |
| 13 | He managed to have another few words with Mrs Morgan also , who was looking much stronger . |
| 14 | She and her parents , Les and Fran , will have to spend another few months in the US as the youngster receives more treatment . |
| 15 | Down came another few panes in the glasshouse . |
| 16 | Few few hoots of laughter from the back ! |
| 17 | Too thinly spread to have much impact on the structure of wealth , so many were subsidiary to farming that , far from being divided into industrial and agrarian regions , England consisted of various farming regions of which certain pastoral ones had attained some degree of industrial development , in some few cases to the extent of substantially modifyng their fundamental characteristics . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But it was not going to be easy ; some few years after Malmesbury 's comments another accredited diplomat noted à propos of an evening at the Tuileries : |
| 20 | It was lightly teased into the top few inches of soil , after rain , to top up the fertility and to ensure that there are banked reserves to see crops through their long winter haul . |
| 21 | Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out . |
| 22 | A typical microcomputer system therefore consists of a microprocessor chip , one or more ROM chips , one or more RAM chips ( to hold variable data ) , and a further chip to decode the top few bits of the 16-bit address coming from the microprocessor , in order to direct it to the appropriate store chip . |
| 23 | Persistent surface weedkillers remain active in the top few centimetres of the soil , killing new weeds as they germinate , yet they do not harm most established roses , shrubs and trees , whose roots are well below the surface . |
| 24 | For example , there is enough material in a glass of water to run a car for ten years , enough in the top few centimetres of Lake Erie to power New York State for a similar time and enough in the oceans to keep us going indefinitely . |
| 25 | Attaching carpet piercing spikes to the base , and making sure the system pierces the top few millimetres of wood below the carpet adds further to security . |
| 26 | He undid his tie so that it hung loose around his neck and unfastened the top few buttons on his shirt . |
| 27 | Though still dressed , he had removed his jacket and tie , and the top few buttons of his shirt were undone . |
| 28 | The top few levels of such a classification would go |
| 29 | However , I 've just spent an interesting few minutes with my nose in line with the needles , gingerly winding the transfer carriage along with the ribber on half pitch — all in the interests of this article you understand , while hoping I would n't damage the transfer needle ! |
| 30 | When the Liberation came , the French dealt with the open collaborators in a brutal few weeks of epuration — a purge in which some innocents suffered . |