Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one of the few crops the European Community is n't growing enough of . |
| 2 | One thing , thought Sally-Anne , looking around her , after Ma Bailey had set her down in one of the few chairs the room possessed , was that no one here had ever done any summer cleaning , nor spring , autumn nor winter cleaning either . |
| 3 | When all else fails , disciplinary procedures instigated properly and fairly are one of the few protections the public has . |
| 4 | For a few moments the clouds open and we lie in the heat of a hazy sun , our efforts justly rewarded . |
| 5 | In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come , the estate agent from Sudbury . |
| 6 | In a few moments the big dog reached the crowd gathered on the bank . |
| 7 | For a few moments the corpse was trapped on a half-sunken log , then an eddy loosed the dead man and carried him westwards . |
| 8 | After a few moments the professor himself appears from a doorway . |
| 9 | In only a few moments the sheets , the bedding , all drenched . |
| 10 | After a few moments the snuffles and grunts were overlaid by a voice explaining in sympathetically conspiratorial tones that we were listening to the sounds made by mating koalas in the Pilliga Nature Reserve in New South Wales . |
| 11 | They did n't say anything , and after a few moments the silence hardened and became awkward . |
| 12 | For a few moments the pilots sat there , appalled by the racket , upset by the tragedy , unwilling to leave . |
| 13 | For a few moments the headlights stayed , then she heard the noise of acceleration and once more all was quiet . |
| 14 | As we 're gon na be commemorating and celebrating in a few moments the sacrifice to the very point of giving his own life . |
| 15 | In a few areas the proposed treatment will considerably undermine the main purpose of the forthcoming Financial Reporting Standard , namely to reflect the substance of transactions in assets or liabilities . |
| 16 | With her grace , and a few prayers the rest of us may find for you , you can hardly go unblessed . ’ |
| 17 | In a few instances the loss of someone close can propel the survivor into an overwhelming emotional whirlpool that can not be contained without expert help or hospitalization or treatment or a combination of all of these . |
| 18 | The plant-eaters grew bulkier and heavier as a kind of protection , and in a few instances the flesh-eaters also grew commensurately bigger . |
| 19 | In a few instances the height difference between the route and the surrounding ground has meant that steps have had to be installed . |
| 20 | In a few instances the height difference between the route and the surrounding ground has meant that steps have had to be installed . |
| 21 | In Crohn 's disease the frequency of IgG anti-α antigen and anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies did not differ statistically from the control group , although in a few instances the antibody levels were surprisingly high . |
| 22 | For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds . |
| 23 | But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate . |
| 24 | After a few hours the butterflies can be released . |
| 25 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 26 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 27 | Within a few hours the 126-member Slovene delegation walked out in protest over this defeat and over votes on amendments to the draft congress declaration , which had thereby rejected clear commitments to human rights and to closer ties with West European organizations . |
| 28 | After a few hours the speed of change slowed . |
| 29 | And in the course of a few hours the softly spoken , silver-haired woman had made her feel as though they had always been friends . |
| 30 | In a few cases the disease undergoes a recurrent phase when the manifestations of secondary syphilis are seen again . |