Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Woodbines ) ; a loaf of bread was 4 d. ; a pint of milk 1 d. , a bag of coal , 9 d. ; and for the rich few who had cars , petrol was 11 pence per gallon . |
| 2 | Personally , I am not in favour of mammoth jail sentences except for the deserving few — and that 's not so much a matter of punishment as a means of keeping society free from their future depredations . |
| 3 | A-To-Z , carrying the colours of Brian Cooper , of In The Groove fame , landed a few decent bets for the fortunate few . |
| 4 | Barely managing to hold her breath for the extra few seconds , she hauled herself to the other side of the object first , before surfacing . |
| 5 | First , it recommended that local authorities should be made responsible for all long-term care of mentally handicapped and physically handicapped people , except for the rare few in need of permanent 24-hour medical supervision , who would remain the responsibility of the NHS . |
| 6 | He was going out and would be engaged for the following few days . |
| 7 | A new precision was certainly present and this was important for the dedicated few . |
| 8 | To create for the lucky few a special fragrance , a perfume as individual as we are ourselves . |
| 9 | The third stage is for the disciplined few , and the final stage is for the select few who desire the bliss and blessedness of complete union with God . |
| 10 | For the past few weeks President Najibullah has been meeting militia commanders from around the country offering them more weapons and money to maintain their loyalty and keep the roads open . |
| 11 | This is the church which has been the centre of opposition in East Berlin for the past few weeks . |
| 12 | Self-employed John , 48 , from Dublin said : ‘ I 've been in the international scene for the past few years . |
| 13 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
| 14 | For the past few years , the death count has been running at roughly 10 a day , with blood feuds and general gangsterism adding to the mayhem . |
| 15 | Goldman Sachs says its private-placement business in Europe has doubled every year for the past few years . |
| 16 | And for the past few months , I 've been reading Viz. |
| 17 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 18 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 19 | Many beekeepers have been examining their bees carefully for the past few years in efforts to find the mite . |
| 20 | Ironically , Mr Yeltsin 's studious absence from public view for the past few days forced the two parties to seek a solution and not wait for him to intervene . |
| 21 | In times of exchange rate volatility , such as we have been experiencing for the past few years , most overseas buyers will want to be invoiced in their own currency and avoid any exchange risk . |
| 22 | For the past few days he had brought security into her child 's world of distorted perspectives and half comprehended fears . |
| 23 | The music has n't changed ; it 's been the same for the past few millennia . |
| 24 | Cinestra offers a regular training programme , and for the past few years has operated a highly successful bursary scheme for new video makers which also offers practical production experience for the women they train . |
| 25 | But theorists have already been busy for the past few years working on schemes that incorporate a third force , the strong nuclear force , with electroweak theory . |
| 26 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |
| 27 | A government supermarket in New Delhi has been selling 10 solar cookers every day for the past few months for about £20 each . |
| 28 | EUROPE has been treated to high comedy for the past few weeks as governments , corporations and journalists have fallen all over each other in a made game of find-the barrels . |
| 29 | He could not explain it , but his putting had gone to pieces for the past few months and he was missing shots which formerly he would have holed with ease . |
| 30 | ‘ For the past few years I have built my life around rugby and I am happy to go on doing that until I ca n't go any further in the game ’ , he said . |