Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a disarming lightness to the popular No. 7 ( its Mazurka affiliation charmingly highlighted ) , but No. 10 in C sharp minor is much less assured than a few years earlier ; No. 15 commences sadly off pitch and No. 16 is less ‘ driven ’ or trenchant than in the earlier and greatly celebrated account . |
| 2 | They lay their eggs in these chalices and there the young go through their entire development , sharing their pool with nothing more dangerous than a few innocuous insect larvae . |
| 3 | What constitutes ‘ serious damage to property ’ is obviously a matter of degree , but it probably means something rather more serious than a few broken windows . |
| 4 | And , indeed , the sheer prevalence of Essene thought in the Holy Land at the time also bears witness to a congregation more numerous than a few conclaves of ascetics sequestered in the desert . |
| 5 | If full airbrakes are needed for more than a few seconds , and it looks as though they should be kept on , sideslipping should be used to get rid of the excess height so that for the last part of the approach less than full airbrake approach is required . |
| 6 | If your symptoms persist for more than a few days , then contact your doctor for advice . |
| 7 | Call your doctor for advice if symptoms persist for more than a few days . |
| 8 | Yet there were those who moved easily around the margins , and I am certain the profound effects of this liminal time extended to more than a few of us who made this transition into structural limbo . |
| 9 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 10 | The worst case was in July 1989 when an alternator set fell off at around 100mph at Harrow on the main line into Euston and caused a major derailment , fortunately with no more than a few injuries . |
| 11 | First , at currents of more than a few amps , capacitors that can carry the current without suffering di/dt stress , heating stress , and MHz ringing tend to be physically large , and expensive compared with normal power supply capacitors . |
| 12 | The company 's employees have embarked on a strike that could seriously disrupt international air travel if it lasts for more than a few weeks . |
| 13 | From his universal nickname — Tenko — it will be surmised that Dennis demands more than a few laps of the pitch prior to a session in the pub . |
| 14 | That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus . |
| 15 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 16 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 17 | In practice , many though not all informals have no security of tenure over the site on which they work , have very few means of tying their small workforce to the enterprise for more than a few months , and may run out of their supply of recycled materials ( from the formal sector ) at any moment . |
| 18 | The truth he got , but , when he rose to his feet at the splendid Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre to declare the summit open , no more than a few people present had any inkling of what he was about to say . |
| 19 | Abel , for example , is obviously a Democrat , as he slipped more than a few anti-Reagan barbs into his presentation . |
| 20 | ‘ But where the sentence is substantial the offence will be grave , the risk the offender represents to the public can be significant and the difference which decision to grant or not to grant parole makes , may be more than a few months . |
| 21 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |
| 22 | No more than a few hundred of these are used with any frequency . |
| 23 | But even these can not afford to act as nursemaids to more than a few sick clients . |
| 24 | It will take more than a few scandal-mongers to sink him . |
| 25 | Few people in Japan expect Mr Gorbachev to make more than a few diplomatic utterances about the islands while in Tokyo . |
| 26 | Loverboy tries hard to be hilarious , but raises no more than a few laughs . |
| 27 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 28 | With little more than a few snorts and grunts , the lumbering animals were coaxed down the ramp . |
| 29 | You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead . |
| 30 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |