Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 32 | During the few minutes they chatted , apart from mentioning he was divorced , he did not bring up Liza 's name . |
| 33 | I shall not , however , let my hon. Friend hold me back during the few minutes that I shall use to unbridle myself . |
| 34 | During the few moments in which she paused in her ascent to the church she reflected that now she was looking at the view the other way round ; now she was in one of the overcrowded little alleys visible from San Martino as merely a crack in a vast expanse of roof tiles and crumbling masonry and noticeable from that lofty vantage point because of the fluttering of the washing hung out on poles over the street to dry . |
| 35 | The first group of paintings in which this new development is clearly visible are the canvases executed during the few weeks spent at La Rue-des-Bois in the autumn and in Paris during the succeeding months . |
| 36 | Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired . |
| 37 | Researchers working with this substance set about trying to remove a fertilized ovum from a woman during the few days that elapse between actual conception and the implantation of the cell into the uterus — where it must be to develop into an infant — and then replacing it . |
| 38 | During the few days before Blundy came across to Belfast , Paisley contacted a legal friend who in turn suggested to Vincent Browne of the Sunday Independent , a Dublin newspaper , that he examine the Black case . |
| 39 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 40 | As the few survivors brought word of the defeat back to Ulthuan , panic back to spread among the High Elves . |
| 41 | Soon Downes had reached the last carriage , in front of the diesel locomotive , staring quickly through the windows of the compartment as the few doors still remaining open were banged shut and a whistle blew , and with a slight chug and then with a mighty heave the long , north-bound train began slowly to move forward , gradually picking up a little speed , before moving out and away along the curving stretch of line that led to Banbury . |
| 42 | Apart from union complaints about the few jobs generated , there is little sign that the much vaunted investments in high technology are pulling the French out of recession , once a basic tenet of the Chevenement philosophy . |
| 43 | Sitting near the window , with its view of the fire escape , smoking a joint he 'd bought in an amusement arcade , he wrote in a notebook about visiting Spanish towns , and the beaches , then about the few days in London because his imagination ran out on Spain with the end of the brochure about flamenco dancing and bullfights , and because what he was doing was more immediate . |
| 44 | Try to think of those good points of Sarah 's , Christine , and you wo n't mind about the few points she loses ! ’ |
| 45 | Schmidt looked through the few things she brought out . |
| 46 | Instead he pushed his way into the small lounge and rapidly began sorting through the few books and papers she had left lying on the table . |
| 47 | From my viewpoint , major upgrades have to be worth the few pounds it might cost . |
| 48 | If you rely on your computer and value the investment you have made , then it is well worth the few minutes spent on preventative maintenance . |
| 49 | Hari had remained in the cemetery long after the few neighbours who had attended Win Morgan 's funeral had gone . |
| 50 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ You 'll have to excuse me husband , ’ she says , ‘ he get 's a bit borin' after a few pints . ’ |
| 52 | With all that , a player 's bag can feel like a ton after a few bogeys ! |
| 53 | We keep open house here and they can come and go as they please before settling down , as many do , after a few attempts . |
| 54 | After a few attempts it will drive as normal . |
| 55 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 56 | After a few attempts at checking myself by thinking of Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes riding a tandem , I found myself back at the doctor . |
| 57 | After a few attempts , which often result in catching the ball off the toe , the player begins to feel how necessary it is to turn away fully in the backswing and to bring the club down on the correct path . |
| 58 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 59 | After a few glasses of the local ‘ dark and stormy ’ cocktail — a mixture of rum and ginger beer — the new Governor might agree with the poet Andrew Marvell who wrote of eternal spring in ‘ an isle so long unknown and yet far kinder than our own ’ . |
| 60 | In any case , it does not detract from my central theme that ‘ traditional ’ chemistry is brought alive by anecdotes and can be great fun , a feat that modern chemistry simply can not match except perhaps in the case of hydroxyethane ( ethanol ) , after a few glasses of which , who cares anyway ? |