Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 2 | When you 've been through this a few times you 'll |
| 3 | Of these a few came to see in friendship the whole meaning of life : Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and E.M . |
| 4 | He remembered staring out from the nest site on a clear cold morning and seeing a line of grey-blue a few miles to the north which they said was the sea . |
| 5 | The hillsides would have been covered like this a few centuries ago — genuine deer forests . |
| 6 | She was threatened with that a few days later when she was sweeping the back stairs and her rear view was too much of a temptation for the young footman . |
| 7 | In Zimbabwe there are now eight ‘ traditional ’ choirs , all in Harare , as compared with twenty a few years ago . |
| 8 | I I I got a little bit involved in that a few years ago , when I was working on it , having had some scepticism before-hand . |
| 9 | But , although eyebrows were raised in April at the unexpected announcement that DG would be axing a further 1,000 jobs , reducing the total headcount to just over 7,000 , from 17,700 a few years ago , Skates maintains that these cuts — 600 to 700 of which have already been effected — would have been implemented regardless of the company 's financial performance . |
| 10 | His parents had died as prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore , and it had been a further great grief to Alicia Lockwood when her beloved nephew had been killed in the desert in 1942 a few weeks after Sara was born . |
| 11 | Add to this a few arguments related to the preservation of choice , local market knowledge , and participation in technology transfer , and you have the case for not allowing air transport power to be concentrated in too few hands . |
| 12 | But Machiavelli , who one gathers is a favourite source of the author , gave us the lowdown on this a few centuries ago . |
| 13 | There are fragments of kouroi from Delos as early or nearly as Nikandre 's girl , but before we go on to these a few more general remarks are in place . |
| 14 | Adding to these the few cordless tools I already possess , and one or two tools ‘ hot off the manufacturing press ’ I shall endeavour to introduce the technology and give a broad appraisal of the tools . |
| 15 | At first a few individuals left off talking , then this engendered a positive feedback , more people heard the gathering soundlessness and responded to it so that whole tiers shut up . |
| 16 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |
| 17 | With the stimulus parameters usually employed to produce LTP , the duration of PTP is at most a few minutes . |
| 18 | Chemical shifts are generally of a few eV or less , and overlap of lines due to different elements is unlikely , as each element contributes at most a few lines in the range 50–1200 eV , while the instrumental linewidth is of the order of 2 eV . |
| 19 | For many years the production of a lexicon to accompany a parsing system was viewed as a tedious task and most systems provided only illustrative lexicons , containing at most a few hundred words . |
| 20 | Furthermore the designers are mainly concerned with lexical access , rather than speech recognition as a whole and the ‘ utterances ’ are at most a few words long . |
| 21 | The police chief Tuma was taken to court by one judge for breaking an October 1989 decree to remove the miners , only to be let off by another a few weeks later . |
| 22 | The latest iteration is the PI/open Unix version , which was launched by Prime a few months before its effective demise . |