Example sentences of "[art] few [unc] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In modern times the Spanish aristocracy has given little cultural leadership : in the late eighteenth century the few esprit forts who corresponded with Voltaire or Rousseau were swamped by the traditional formality and tedium that made Madrid society a nightmare for intelligent ambassadors . |
| 2 | There are emerging , however , a few bona fide cases where licensing is the only means of making any sales and where it is in our general interest to be in a market in anticipation of that market situation easing at a later date . |
| 3 | The two presenters run through the sequence of events and camera angles , practising a few boisterous ' announcements and listening to snatches of some of the show 's records . |
| 4 | So having said that I thought that there were more important issues for the council to discuss , I do n't think it 'd be fair to let this second debate on the subject pass without actually making a few er er a very short erm a few short remarks cos I think we need to be clear about the issues . |
| 5 | Activated ( CD25 + ) lymphoctyes expressing interleukin ( IL ) -2 receptors were increased in lamina propria , usually subjacent to basal lamina , although a few IL-2R + intrapithelial lymhocytes found , other IL-2R + cells were deemed to be macrophages ( CD68 + ) . |
| 6 | Finally , the TCR- β mutant thymus contains a few CD4 + SP and CD8 + SP cells , of which between half and two-thirds are γ T cells ( data not shown ) . |
| 7 | Only a few CD15 + cells ( neutrophils ) were observed in lamina propria throughout and populations did not differ significantly between either group . |
| 8 | These differences in athletic performance might not be very large , a matter of only a few per cent , but for world-class athletes , the difference between a world record and a mediocre performance can be only fractional . |
| 9 | Arsenic is very volatile and was unobtainable by ancient smelting techniques , but arsenic minerals commonly occur in association with copper ores and an alloy with a few per cent can be obtained by smelting these . |
| 10 | Hard solders , on the other hand , were usually of the same metal as the object they were used on , but alloyed with a few per cent of another metal in order to reduce the melting point . |
| 11 | A typical basalt contains a few per cent of phenocryst minerals , but in an andesite phenocrysts may form as much as 50 per cent volume of the rock . |
| 12 | Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface . |
| 13 | While lesser villages grabbed a few per cent here and there , le Mesnil-sur-Oger was denied that one vital per cent required for full grand cru status . |
| 14 | Fuji Xerox Co Ltd plans to increase imports of parts to take advantage of the high yen in order to cut domestic production costs , Reuter reports from Tokyo : in the long term , it plans to raise the ratio to 30% from just a few per cent but the company is not rushing to achieve this as its export ratio of total products is low at around 20% and the high value of the yen is not severely damaging business . |
| 15 | Total French expenditure is only a few per cent of total US space expenditure . |
| 16 | Thus , Beed has claimed that ‘ since ownership is very widely dispersed … either it could mean , with Berle and Means , that no one individual or small group could gain sufficient votes for control , or , contradicting Berle and Means , that only a few per cent of votes was required for control ’ . |
| 17 | In addition , the number of β-galactosidase staining positive cells was also consistently above a few per cent of cells for the serum starved cells . |
| 18 | Only a few per cent of the thyroid tumours would be fatal , whereas perhaps half of the cancers from caesium-137 would be fatal . |
| 19 | An alternative is that it consists of a few per cent silicates , all the rest being iron-rich compounds such as FeS and FeO , which have densities between those of metallic iron and silicates . |
| 20 | Although as a prediction of the electoral result this was incorrect , the estimates were only a few per cent out . |
| 21 | To avoid excessive changes in the sample cross section , elongations are limited to a few per cent and are followed over approximately three decades of time . |
| 22 | Most people will offer something even if it is only a few per cent for cash on delivery . |