Example sentences of "[adv] by [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Thanks , ’ Trent said , to delay his death , if only by a few minutes . |
| 3 | The situation does not occur on stillwaters because there is enough water well out from the banks to allow the beats to be separated , if only by a few yards . |
| 4 | The red-brick government-issue buildings stand isolated within a security fence , surrounded even today only by a few houses , fields , orchards and small villages housing some of Britain 's finest racehorse stables . |
| 5 | San Vincenzo is a lovely resort of clear soft sands interrupted only by a few emerging reefs . |
| 6 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
| 7 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 8 | For several hours they appeared to make little progress ; they were traversing a barren region of fine sand and yellowish clay , broken only by a few stunted , prickly bushes . |
| 9 | Pride in the nation 's system of government , once shared by all , has degenerated into complacency about its superiority , believed only by the few who exercise the near despotic powers that its outmoded forms have given them . |
| 10 | Having entered the soft systems world as an untrained novice some years ago , and endeavoured to apply the theories to problem situations within my normal sphere of activity , aided only by the few textbooks that were then on the market and occasional contact with other exponents of the approach , I am keenly aware of the difficulties that some practitioners may have , not only with understanding the principles but also with putting them into practice . |
| 11 | Here and there a few barricades were erected but they were defended half-heartedly by the few who manned them . |
| 12 | This was concealed up to now by a few intuitive master strokes , the lucky results of risks that were in themselves unjustified , and the short-comings of our enemies . |
| 13 | Scientific journals and books are published in the West , increasingly by a few high priced multi-national publishers , and the editors and decision makers are typically located at major American or British universities . |
| 14 | The site of this unsuccessful venture in the black arts is marked today by the few stony fragments of St Andrew 's twelfth-century church above the harbour . |
| 15 | So oligarchy meant government not simply by a few , but by a few of the " rich and well-born " ; democracy was government by the many poor . |
| 16 | Although intuitive aromatherapy is much derided by orthodox practitioners ( and even by a few scientifically minded aromatherapists ) , it too has its place in the holistic scheme of things . |
| 17 | The rest of the known world was mainly dominated directly or indirectly by a few European states . |
| 18 | Some farmers cured their own bacon but most of the curing was done commercially by a few firms established for the purpose . |
| 19 | Most of these teachers were undertaking courses leading to higher degrees in education offered by universities and more recently by a few public sector institutions , and in-service BEds or Diploma courses . |
| 20 | His books have sold more than sixty million copies , but today 's anniversary is being marked quietly by a few devoted readers . |