Example sentences of "[adj] few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Another few hours of training . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Few few hoots of laughter from the back ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Though still dressed , he had removed his jacket and tie , and the top few buttons of his shirt were undone . |
| 14 | The top few levels of such a classification would go |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 17 | The panel accepted the social work argument that if there was a high degree of Social Work input to the family home , and that if Jim could be placed in a new school for his remaining few months of statutory attendance , then this might be the most suitable response . |
| 18 | At the end of June , Sir Geoffrey made his own last vain attempt to reassure Hong Kong , flying in briefly for one of the most uncomfortable few days of his long diplomatic career . |
| 19 | The same two kinds of explanations could also apply to the layering of the outer few kilometres of the Apollo 17 site . |
| 20 | Our measurements give values of 1.83x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R54 ) and 2.78x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R151 ) in the central few degrees of retina , and 5.57x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R54 ) and 4.69x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R151 ) in the remaining region ( Table 1 ) . |
| 21 | An extended duct is available to accommodate the extra few inches of depth created by a cavity wall |
| 22 | Daedalus is designing a novel house extension , a variable-pressure bedroom , which may purchase an extra few years of life for its proud owners by slowing the metabolic rate of that third of their lifetime which they spend asleep . |
| 23 | So , after the inevitable few months of bereavement , Amy went to work on herself , for herself . |
| 24 | It was almost worth all that agony to have these few moments of companionship . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 27 | These few words of Bishop Samson make the whole affair a matter of business-like common sense , more in keeping with the way in which government was developing than with Anselm 's grand and simple principles . |
| 28 | You must then use these few seconds of relief from your negative thoughts to employ a more long term means of distraction to prevent the thoughts returning . |
| 29 | This breed can live to 14 years of age , so giving an adult a home should still promise a good few years of companionship . |
| 30 | If you choose where to sit or loiter carefully , however , avoiding the principal sea front by the casino , it is just possible to have an illusory few minutes of the old Biarritz . |