Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below and above him were overhangs ; he had lost all his equipment ; the few inches of rock beneath his feet threatened to crumble away ; a blizzard tore at him constantly ; his situation was entirely hopeless . |
| 2 | Luke smiled again , reaching across the few inches of space Fran had managed to leave between them to catch her hand and raise it to his lips as he pressed a lovingly tender kiss to her fingertips . |
| 3 | In one of the few studies of evacuation behaviour after a non-nuclear hazard event Liverman and Wilson ( 1981 ) give weight to this argument . |
| 4 | This section first compares prevalence in Wirral with the few studies of rates of opioid use in other parts of the UK , and then turns to an examination of the characteristics of opioid users in different areas . |
| 5 | Although she did not even turn to look at him , a delicious warmth began to spread through her inert form — as though some electrical force was quietly pulsing across the few feet of water separating their bodies . |
| 6 | Further on the Brook splits , and one tributary leads to the few remnants of what was Upper Ley Mill . |
| 7 | The few instances of " long distance transport tend to be early : at Fishbourne , or Angmering , where siltstone of Mediterranean origin was encountered . |
| 8 | This seemed to explain one of the few advantages of the underground network to Preston — the fact that it was comparatively free of Rottweilers and pit bull terriers . |
| 9 | The few genera of veterinary interest are considered in order of importance . |
| 10 | His podgy , clean-nailed fingers locked together and formed a vaulted shrine over the few pages of notes that contained my Mother 's life . |
| 11 | When I married , I left behind the few friends of my childhood , and made no lasting friends in London . |
| 12 | ‘ You must be one of the few friends of Gamal that I do n't know . ’ |
| 13 | However , even when the dinner was over , their ‘ guests ’ showed no sign of leaving , at which point the Emperor began to pull on the ends of his moustache — one of the few signs of irritation he ever allowed himself . |
| 14 | This willingness to forgive past wrongs is one of the few signs of hope for this benighted province ; but it is not enough to bring peace . |
| 15 | One of the few signs of encouragement to emerge from the reported cases considered here is that some current employee inventors can not easily be ‘ bought off ’ by employers anxious to avoid compensation claims . |
| 16 | Nor had the sudden coolness between himself and Mrs J. Roscoe escaped most of the other tourists ; indeed , this development was proving one of the few topics of conversation as the coach accelerated along the dual carriageway towards Woodstock . |
| 17 | Some tests were also made with the few boxes of plants available at this time . |
| 18 | The meeting immediately elected Moore , an instinctive populist and one of the few member of the Cabinet with genuinely working class credentials , to lead the party and to attempt to restore those areas of traditional Labour support eroded by Rogernomics . |
| 19 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 20 | These were probably one of the few things of mine not due to be on show at the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist later this morning . |
| 21 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
| 22 | At its best it remains one of the few areas of the modern press where imagination , honesty and idealism , however fatuous , can still , occasionally , be found . |
| 23 | Certainly it is one of the few areas of growth : between 1985 and 1990 the advertising spend in Britain grew 75 per cent , but the spend on direct mail grew 101 per cent . |
| 24 | These reasons may not be entirely true , but since formal advice on radon exposure was first issued in 1987 by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) great concern has arisen in the few areas of the country that have high radon levels . |
| 25 | For the men , work means construction or security — one of the few areas of economic expansion . |
| 26 | And in the few areas of the UK where fluoride is added to the water , dental carries have been reduced by around 50% . |
| 27 | One of the few areas of common ground which both Keynes and Friedman occupy centres on the definition of a state of overall full employment : full employment prevails when the aggregate supply of labour , L s , equals the aggregate demand for labour , L d , at a unique , market clearing real wage rate , w * ; . |
| 28 | In an official statement , the BRE said that the few cases of rot it knew about were in every case directly attributable to rising damp or to rain penetration : |
| 29 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 30 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |