Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] few " in BNC.

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1 At the end of June , Sir Geoffrey made his own last vain attempt to reassure Hong Kong , flying in briefly for one of the most uncomfortable few days of his long diplomatic career .
2 One method is for the sequence field of the micro-instruction to specify all but the least significant few bits of the next micro-instruction address .
3 Some computers allow several different test functions to be connected as each of the least significant few bits of the next micro-instruction address , allowing 4-way , 8-way , or even higher order conditional jumps .
4 But she was n't away till the third or the fourth , if you could get it within the very first few days
5 ‘ I 've had a terribly peaceful few weeks . ’
6 For too long , says Ward , we have persisted in the Henry Ford myth that only a genetically privileged few can do joined-up thinking , and the rest are fit for manual tasks so simplified that they produce that brand of mind-numbing tedium which is the most fertile soil for industrial unrest .
7 But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health .
8 It 's been a very trying few days .
9 ‘ In fact , Ursula and I accepted his invitation to go over to Macau with him and Cavell Fielding on Tuesday evening for dinner and a spot of gambling in one of the casinos , and a very enjoyable few hours they were too . ’
10 The whole essence of Conservative Party that 's put before the Environment Committee today and I remind us that it was only in a very short few months ago that this Council might be at cuts of up to twenty million pounds in order that low in the very country .
11 Judge Angus Stroyan QC said : ‘ This was no doubt an extremely unpleasant few seconds for the girl but really no more than a drunken antic .
12 With just four minutes remaining , though , the stalest of stalemates was broken by Chelsea captain Andy Townsend , who rounded off an immensely difficult few days for Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson .
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