Example sentences of "[prep] but [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 2 | The chevauchèe may have been seen as a challenge to the enemy 's pride and ability to defend his territory , but it is doubtful whether the leader of a chevauchèe , often at the head of but a few thousand men , and needing to make the expedition profitable through the taking of booty and prisoners , was seeking battle . |
| 3 | We know that Lethieullier was also interested in anatomy , for in 1734 he had offered to the Royal Society three infants preserved in spirit , ‘ … of which one Elizabeth Baggs , a hard labouring woman in Oxford , was delivered at one birth in 1714 ’ and who lived for but a few hours afterwards . |
| 4 | This would apply , with but a few exceptions , to all cases under four weeks ' duration . |
| 5 | Small it may be , but that postage stamp of a garden at the front of the house does boast a distinction which falls to but a few , two rose bushes of a rather particular , not to say exclusive , variety . |