Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [art] " 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 HIGHER taxes on multinational companies is one of the few revenue-raisers an electioneering politician can propose without instantly becoming an also-ran .
4 When all else fails , disciplinary procedures instigated properly and fairly are one of the few protections the public has .
5 After a few moments a truce was arranged .
6 And in a few moments a voice from that quarter , low and breathy , joined very softly in the responses .
7 Her mouth opened and after a few moments a strange ululation sounded , a despairing cry , a death cry .
8 After a few moments a voice said , ‘ Hello , is there anybody there ? ’
9 For a few moments no one spoke and then there was some activity in one corner where a young man was trying to persuade the girl beside him to stand up .
10 For a few moments the clouds open and we lie in the heat of a hazy sun , our efforts justly rewarded .
11 In a few moments the other participant in the sequence they were shooting would come , the estate agent from Sudbury .
12 In a few moments the big dog reached the crowd gathered on the bank .
13 For a few moments the corpse was trapped on a half-sunken log , then an eddy loosed the dead man and carried him westwards .
14 After a few moments the professor himself appears from a doorway .
15 In only a few moments the sheets , the bedding , all drenched .
16 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 .
17 They did n't say anything , and after a few moments the silence hardened and became awkward .
18 For a few moments the pilots sat there , appalled by the racket , upset by the tragedy , unwilling to leave .
19 For a few moments the headlights stayed , then she heard the noise of acceleration and once more all was quiet .
20 As we 're gon na be commemorating and celebrating in a few moments the sacrifice to the very point of giving his own life .
21 In a few areas a detailed election manifesto has been adopted at the first meeting of a newly elected council as a basis for council policies ( Fudge 1981 ) .
22 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 .
23 He takes a few players every year on his estancia .
24 With her grace , and a few prayers the rest of us may find for you , you can hardly go unblessed . ’
25 I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week .
26 He turned his attention to the exploited — and , it was believed , unreachable — casual workers in the iron ore mines , women and men earning only a few rupees a day , living in squalor in dusty shacks on devastated hillsides .
27 I never buy it of fortnightly so I I 'll go to the shop and I 'll say , Right , probably seven tins of beans , seven tins of peas , er you know a few tins a few beans er tins of spaghetti and things like that you know , bits and bobs , but I 'll still get a joint for me Sundays .
28 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 .
29 The plant-eaters grew bulkier and heavier as a kind of protection , and in a few instances the flesh-eaters also grew commensurately bigger .
30 In a few instances the height difference between the route and the surrounding ground has meant that steps have had to be installed .
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