Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only for those few feet outside . |
| 2 | Since more than 90% of vaccines produce anti-HBs , routine post-vaccination screening is appropriate only for those few persons in whom suboptimal response is likely and whose medical management or employment duties hinge upon knowledge of their immune status . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's only for another few days then I 'll sign off , ’ Dad promised . |
| 4 | So for another few weeks or months the question of the unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions is still open . |
| 5 | Interleukin-2 is normally present in minute quantities in the microscopic local environment of lymphocytes and acts only upon those few cells . |
| 6 | In summer , too , you can read the ridge and furrow in an even more attractive way , although this is possible only on those few fields which have not been ‘ improved ’ to an all-over green of fertilized rye-grass . |
| 7 | If we ask who is to gauge that ( presumably not God ) , he gives the unhelpful and not a little pompous reply that it is ‘ known with clarity and precision only by some few thinking men in every nation and every age ’ ( p. 64 ) . |
| 8 | Yet the thought of being cooped up indoors for another few hours made her feel almost suicidal . |
| 9 | With so much to do and think about , she would have forgotten about Tom Russell altogether in another few minutes — she hoped . |
| 10 | It was also carried on in some few villages : fulling mills operated at East Hendred , near Wantage , Brimpton and Colthorp , as well as one at Bagnor owned by no less than Jack of Newbury himself . |
| 11 | It seemed to Sam that she looked the tall girl over very intently during those few moments , but then most people looked twice at Evelyn , not because she was especially beautiful but she had a kind of composure unusual in a street girl . |
| 12 | But even during those few seconds when he is changing he is on one horse or the other . |
| 13 | I wore my dark glasses even for these few moments , as my blue eyes were always straining in the brilliant light . |
| 14 | Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money . |
| 15 | The Nova comes with a map ; I drive through the neat little lanes and some straighter , faster roads , feeling even in those few miles that the place is too damn clean and twee and crowded after the West Highlands . |
| 16 | I 've never seen it before , not even in those few moments that stayed so vividly in my memory . |
| 17 | But at least for those few moments he had shown as human , like other men . |
| 18 | They 're back again for next few weeks . |
| 19 | It was just eighty-eight days since he had recaptured his capital of Paris , yet in those few days he had shown the world how an emperor made armies . |
| 20 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 21 | Occasionally , the head of the house would commute up and down the river by paddle steamer during the week , visiting the Stock Exchange and attending to business , but apart from those few and the servants , the street was deserted . |
| 22 | Apart from these few senior officers , however , policemen shared the loyalties of their population , and had a position which was independent of their membership of the force and their rank in it . |