Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ban itself , while it seems to be justified , appears to be the culmination of an orchestrated plan by a few Ethiopian students . |
| 2 | " Ah , " he said , when almost out of sight , back in the depths of the room , not far from the small winding-stair he had entered the room by a few minutes earlier . |
| 3 | For index futures there is clear evidence that the futures price leads the spot price by a few minutes , while for lags of a day the evidence is much weaker . |
| 4 | Harris ( 1989a ) and Moriarty , Gordon , Kuserk and Wang ( 1990 ) studied the basis of the S&P500 during the crash and also found that the large negative basis was substantially reduced when allowance was made for stale prices , and that the futures price led the spot price by a few minutes ( even after allowing for the stale prices effect ) . |
| 5 | Consultation takes time : policy-writing by a few is more speedy , but also less effective in the long term for reasons which are suggested later . |
| 6 | By the 1930s , the grass flying strip at Monkton , later to be developed into Prestwick Airport , was in regular use by a few pilots , and the aerobatic displays of travelling ‘ flying circuses ’ were a novelty in various parts of Ayrshire . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's not a matter of Sun missing volume by a few days , ’ it said , ‘ but by weeks . ’ |
| 8 | The result is that short field performance has been addressed , the propeller pitch has been made finer , reducing the take-off roll to some 804 feet ( hard surface ) , and cutting the cruise performance by a few knots to around 100 . |
| 9 | The Campaign had not been successful in influencing the Trade Unions , possibly because it had been officially characterized as an individual agitation by a few wealthy members . |
| 10 | Yet the reality is starkly different , with loss-making occupancy levels and recession-restrained spending by the few business and leisure tourists that can be attracted now , at little more than cost , due to the fierce competition in this thin market . |
| 11 | To ask , for instance , ‘ Why can a person not doubt who , or what , he meant ? ’ ( 7 , 27 ) , is to exhibit one 's fascination by a few , favoured language games and one 's wish to assimilate others to them . |
| 12 | West Mercia police are checking for possible links between the Telford incident and another close by a few weeks ago when a horse was slashed . |
| 13 | Hardraw Force is the highest surface waterfall in the country ( although exceeded in height by a few underground streams descending into potholes , Fell Beck in Gaping Gill being a notable example ) and the most beautiful . |
| 14 | Perhaps for this reason above any other , aromatherapy has sometimes been dismissed out of hand by a few dyed-in-the-wool traditionalists because they believe a certain amount of discomfort must be felt if it 's to do us any good ! |
| 15 | In Lo stadio di Wimbledon , the young researcher is drawn in search of his elusive quarry by the few traces that remain : the occasional photograph ; a few letters and other writings ; the memories of surviving contemporaries . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ The turntable ladder only just fitted into the churchyard by a few inches . |
| 17 | This extension , overlapped the Crystal Palace tram route by a few yards . |
| 18 | This is all vindictive-ness by a few individuals . ’ |
| 19 | It does not seem , in general , valuable to postpone death by a few hours at enormous cost . |
| 20 | They found that , for each index , the futures market led the spot market by a few minutes . |
| 21 | As at other sites , the trace metal contamination — first lead , then zinc — predated the onset of acidification by a few decades . |
| 22 | When a little old lady on Weybridge station platform asked the Irish stationmaster why there were two large wall clocks each giving a different time by a few minutes , the answer came in a fine Irish brogue : ‘ Ah , yes ma'am ! |