Example sentences of "[adv] from [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their habitations would be huts , which they would have to build themselves , in desert land away from the few cities ; their diet would be healthy and sustaining but it would be monotonous , and they would have to do without delicacies which many of them might have become used to in the Diaspora . |
| 2 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |
| 3 | Aside from a few event movies , most people see their films on television now . |
| 4 | There are virtually no deciduous trees , aside from a few beeches seen halfway along the Strait near the modern coaling-station of Punta Arenas . |
| 5 | At 11.15 a.m. the 29 enthusiastic players teed off from a few tees . |
| 6 | Again , while the emphasis in television has changed slightly from a few decades ago , for instance in the acceptance that women can be sufficiently authoritative to read news broadcasts , nevertheless we still have Westerns full of macho cowboys and soap operas with glamorous full-time housewives . |
| 7 | At the 13th , Woosnam was heckled and a cheer went up from a few spectators as he put his drive into the creek . |
| 8 | However , the neutrons in the Russian experiments were not thought to come from true thermonuclear reactions but rather from a few very energetic ions accelerated directly by the electric fields in the discharge . |
| 9 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
| 10 | In 1887 Polish was officially banned even from the few private bilingual schools of Pomerania , and children heard speaking Polish were threatened with public flogging . |
| 11 | Yet all we seem to have heard , either from a few of the more militant leading players or their representatives in recent months , has been the cry ‘ We want more . ’ |
| 12 | He has hitherto fought shy ( apart from a few marginal incentives ) of trying to increase total savings through the tax system . |
| 13 | The administration of the Famine was remarkable for the absence of nearly all leading Bolsheviks , apart from a few speeches from one or two of them . |
| 14 | Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them . |
| 15 | Apart from a few notable exceptions , all they care about is feet through the door and selling beer . |
| 16 | The business of turning bark into stoppers is very much a cottage industry , apart from a few modern factories . |
| 17 | It is exhaustive , impeccably organised , and generally well written ( apart from a few Germanicisms like telephoning ‘ over ’ instead of ‘ via ’ Sweden , and Norway 's defence being ‘ overmanned ’ instead of ‘ overwhelmed ’ ) . |
| 18 | Apart from a few minor displays , they are free of aggression toward their own kind . |
| 19 | Yet , apart from a few family friends , there was little support for such views . |
| 20 | People were aware of the hard struggle ahead and of its significance , but were generally calm and confident , apart from a few nervous expressions of the difficulties involved in conquering ‘ these vast spaces ’ . |
| 21 | Yet apart from a few scattered Tory voices , there is no public debate . |
| 22 | What they all have in common is a basic commitment that the vines should have been cultivated without the use of chemical fertilisers , pesticides , fungicides or herbicides ( except for a few age-old things like Bordeaux mixture ) , and the wine made without chemical additives or agents — apart from a few natural and/or traditional substances . |
| 23 | Apart from a few individuals the hill sheep industry has shown remarkably little concern or demonstrated any important initiative in tackling this problem . |
| 24 | However , Baxter found the people , apart from a few notable exceptions , to be rather apathetic and unresponsive to the message of the Gospel . |
| 25 | Apart from a few fanatics , there was a general disinclination to apply the laws directed against them . |
| 26 | Apart from a few policemen patrolling the quayside , the event was unremarkable . |
| 27 | Apart from a few bit parts , the rest would be real people . |
| 28 | She had concluded , with relief , that apart from a few episodes of moodiness from Sarah , they had taken it very well . |
| 29 | Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon , street crime does not exist . |
| 30 | A lack of foreign exchange means that , apart from a few Toyotas , there are virtually no new cars in Rangoon . |