Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brenda reckons having her own bike has a few benefits . |
| 2 | Willie 's story starts a few years before his first Open triumph , and bears out his theory that his golf destiny was ‘ written in the stars ’ . |
| 3 | The Conceicao programme has a few hospital beds but its main functions are to run community health centres in favelas and a large primary care clinic in the main hospital which caters for the local population . |
| 4 | For the Nineties , it 's safe to predict that the nostalgia boom has a few years left to run , that Neneh Cherry , Roland Gift and Terence Trent D'Arby will become as big as they want to be , and that Bobby Brown 's crafty commercialisation of rap , soul and a vast ego will give Wacko a run for his money quite soon . |
| 5 | This chapter introduces a few of Stamford 's more interesting people and includes murderers , political idealists , oddities of nature and romantic aristocrats . |
| 6 | Every ceremony includes a few minutes ' silence in which believers can pray . |
| 7 | Chatting in the bar at the festival centre , the 30-year-old writer/director shows a few signs of wear ( a bad back , a persistent cold ) but is obviously still riding the adrenaline rush of getting his movie made after years of struggling on the margins of the film industry . |
| 8 | The same charge will apply to the north and south car parks in Victoria Road , which were made short stay car parks a few years ago . |
| 9 | Think the closing dates a few days time is n't it ? |
| 10 | Support for my ailing home town club extends a few years before the glorious 1964 10–0 victory over Darlington , part of Belle Vue folklore . |
| 11 | Leapor 's poetry records a few occasions of anger during her employment at Edgcote House . |
| 12 | The till girl drops a few non-essential items , like initialled and scented toilet paper into a reject box . |
| 13 | However , whether it is a full spin or just an incipient one is academic if the glider stalls a few hundred feet up . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | When the airbrakes are opened , some lift is lost so that the glider sinks a few feet very rapidly . |
| 16 | A like fate awaits the few surviving soldiers , including Rhodes , who is torn in half after being shot by Bub ( Howard Sherman ) , Dr Logan 's only ‘ success ‘ . |
| 17 | If an experimenter makes a few fish in the school distinctive , the predator should take more notice of them . |
| 18 | The stair banisters had excrescences shaped like pew ends every few treads . |
| 19 | The development of what we still see as the modern corporation began with Pierre S. du Pont 's restructuring of his family company in the early twenties and continued with Alfred P. Sloan 's redesign of General Motors a few years later . |
| 20 | The team has a few ifs and buts about it . |
| 21 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 22 | Lucky Town has a few reasonable ballads and the odd image strong enough to resist the insistent undertow of formula Boss : a soldier back from the Gulf waking from a dream in which the souls of the dead ‘ rise like dark geese into the Oklahoma skies ’ . |
| 23 | WITH the Interim results a few weeks behind us , here are some of the interpretations of the City journalist . |
| 24 | In other cases the ion state is only weakly bound , so that only a few discrete levels exist , and the band shows a few lines followed by a broad continuous portion . |
| 25 | This whole process takes a few minutes . |
| 26 | Songs like ‘ Freewheeling ’ and ‘ Pockets Of St Machali ’ ( both from their recent EP on Sacred Heart ) are good examples of where the flailing sound touches a few raw nerves . |
| 27 | Installation is n't difficult — screwing the battery onto the board takes a few seconds . |
| 28 | Using loosely coupled multiprocessing imposes a few limitations , both on programmers and hardware . |
| 29 | Each jump crosses a few light-hours in a bio-second or two . |
| 30 | The lower head has a few catgut strings stretched fairly tightly across it which give the ‘ rattle ’ , which is the strongest characteristic of the sound of this drum . |