Example sentences of "[adj] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And spokesman Trevor East admitted : ‘ It 's been a trying few days for us and we are very disappointed to miss out again . |
| 2 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |
| 3 | It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ? |
| 4 | They spent an emotional few moments in his third-floor room . |
| 5 | It was lightly teased into the top few inches of soil , after rain , to top up the fertility and to ensure that there are banked reserves to see crops through their long winter haul . |
| 6 | Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out . |
| 7 | A typical microcomputer system therefore consists of a microprocessor chip , one or more ROM chips , one or more RAM chips ( to hold variable data ) , and a further chip to decode the top few bits of the 16-bit address coming from the microprocessor , in order to direct it to the appropriate store chip . |
| 8 | Persistent surface weedkillers remain active in the top few centimetres of the soil , killing new weeds as they germinate , yet they do not harm most established roses , shrubs and trees , whose roots are well below the surface . |
| 9 | For example , there is enough material in a glass of water to run a car for ten years , enough in the top few centimetres of Lake Erie to power New York State for a similar time and enough in the oceans to keep us going indefinitely . |
| 10 | Attaching carpet piercing spikes to the base , and making sure the system pierces the top few millimetres of wood below the carpet adds further to security . |
| 11 | He undid his tie so that it hung loose around his neck and unfastened the top few buttons on his shirt . |
| 12 | Though still dressed , he had removed his jacket and tie , and the top few buttons of his shirt were undone . |
| 13 | The top few levels of such a classification would go |
| 14 | However , I 've just spent an interesting few minutes with my nose in line with the needles , gingerly winding the transfer carriage along with the ribber on half pitch — all in the interests of this article you understand , while hoping I would n't damage the transfer needle ! |
| 15 | When the Liberation came , the French dealt with the open collaborators in a brutal few weeks of epuration — a purge in which some innocents suffered . |
| 16 | There were a funny few minutes about John Major 's working class credentials but like Mills the rest of the act was a bit hackneyed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc . |
| 19 | The feel of Master Harry 's mallet in his hand , the way the heel of it swung in his palm , filled him with a fever of ambition and impatience , and he could not wait the threatened few days for the assay . |
| 20 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 21 | The panel accepted the social work argument that if there was a high degree of Social Work input to the family home , and that if Jim could be placed in a new school for his remaining few months of statutory attendance , then this might be the most suitable response . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Her next door neighbour , a Mrs. Ellen Greaves , gave evidence that she had constantly challenged Esther Dyson in sign language ( which she had learnt through daily contact with the deaf brother and sister ) over the preceding few months about her being in the family way . |
| 24 | What I have n't done and I ought to because of the erm the way that this discussion has to unfold , I ought to say that pure few sentences about why should there be a strategic sites policy at all and erm I ought to put that on the record although it 's pretty well trailed in all the paper work . |
| 25 | The same two kinds of explanations could also apply to the layering of the outer few kilometres of the Apollo 17 site . |
| 26 | Harley 's ball was lying a mere few inches from an out-of-bounds fence and was therefore unplayable by a right-handed golfer . |
| 27 | Our measurements give values of 1.83x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R54 ) and 2.78x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R151 ) in the central few degrees of retina , and 5.57x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R54 ) and 4.69x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R151 ) in the remaining region ( Table 1 ) . |
| 28 | Advantages were the vacuum facility ( worth the extra few pounds above the price of the blower model ) , light weight and length of nozzle . |
| 29 | An extended duct is available to accommodate the extra few inches of depth created by a cavity wall |
| 30 | Daedalus is designing a novel house extension , a variable-pressure bedroom , which may purchase an extra few years of life for its proud owners by slowing the metabolic rate of that third of their lifetime which they spend asleep . |