Example sentences of "[adv] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 . |