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

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1 Children had the unfortunate habit of growing too tall , whereupon they would be sacked so the few shillings earned were lost to a family that might well depend on them .
2 I am left to live out my life with only the few possessions I have managed to buy from my pension , because of Gary .
3 Between his eighth and twelfth years , he was at four Plymouth schools , and then , not even on a regular basis ; he only attended when his grandmother could get together the few pence required to pay his fee .
4 She had just begun to settle into her neat flat , and although it was n't furnished expensively the few pieces she had were chosen with loving care .
5 His wife , 54-year-old singer Tonia Bern , lives 6,000 miles away in Hollywood and they only get together every few months .
6 The former vice-president of Liber and managing director of Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag , Maria Curman , left her posts suddenly a few months ago .
7 I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and
8 If the spider is not to be seen , try tapping the web gently a few times .
9 Igfets have strange characteristics , which mean that they are not much use at frequencies of below a few kilohertz .
10 The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city .
11 The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city .
12 At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’
13 I never forgot his face , and sure enough a few nights later his aircraft was one of those that failed to return .
14 Such obtuseness would have been common enough a few years ago .
15 Perhaps a few adverts round the football terraces would spread the net a little wider .
16 No-one , except perhaps a few scientists , had any idea of the long-term effects the dropping of these two bombs would have on the unfortunate Japanese — and perhaps even the scientists were unsure .
17 Walworth was hardly the place where families had money lying about , except perhaps a few pennies in a cocoa tin for feeding gas meters .
18 ‘ … a little cottage , and perhaps a few chickens .
19 DURING the furore of the next three weeks of General Election campaigning , for Christians perhaps a few reflections about the institution which is the House of Commons — and especially about the men and women who are sent there — would not come amiss .
20 Perhaps a few minutes more , ’ she answered .
21 Perhaps a few bullets ?
22 A winter working on Mozart , perhaps a few concerts , and then we 'll see . ’
23 It could cross the open sea , and land on the enemy coast small groups of men who , in raids lasting perhaps a few hours or , at most , a day or two , could do much damage to both enemy property and morale .
24 Perhaps a few hours away from here would cure the feeling of claustrophobia that was beginning to creep over her .
25 I decided to focus on the Matter again ; the cooking facilities ; it looked like it would have to be a barby of some sort , with paper logs made out of Bible pages twisted up and tied into knots — not the lovely picture pages , they remind me too much of Ma and Pa 's bedroom — perhaps a few letters to the Corinthians ; nice and dry .
26 The crucial question is whether the arbitrator 's is a typical authority , or whether the two features picked out above are peculiar to it and perhaps a few others , but are not characteristic of authorities in general .
27 We might run in the chaps I saw , and perhaps a few others , if they maintain a twenty-four hour guard on the place .
28 We sit there for half an hour perhaps and log one car , a few walkers , several cows , perhaps a few ghosts .
29 She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had .
30 I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement .
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