Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say this because a few days ago Spurs were linked with a different ( Swedish ) defender , so may have pulled out any interest . |
| 2 | This gives a jumble of echoes that will sometimes persist for as much as a few seconds after the original sound has ceased . |
| 3 | What with that and a few crazy reports to him about my off-duty life-style flying about he decided United and me were going nowhere together . |
| 4 | Low kicks to the legs are not allowed , but apart from that and a few other rules , kickboxing is similar to the other martial art ring-sports . |
| 5 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |
| 6 | You must always include one Warlord , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or a few characters as you wish . |
| 7 | However , once the Revolution closed much of the USSR behind its invisible Iron Curtain , both bureaucratic difficulties and high expense effectively put these mountains out of reach to all but a few fortunate climbers . |
| 8 | The would-be island , now with hermetically sealed borders and excluding all but a few tourists , is full of noises . |
| 9 | He said that ending the agreement would jeopardise the future of small or family-run shops , lead to fewer books being published and increase prices of all but a few best sellers . |
| 10 | But Northern Ireland has remained untouched by all but a few Irish comedians . |
| 11 | There were advantages for the Board in deploying all but a few of its full-time teachers as subject-specialist staff tutors based in Cambridge — notably the fact that there would be little problem in constructing a viable programme for each one , with the whole of the Board 's area to cover . |
| 12 | Fortunately , though , all but a few volcanic rocks are built up by various combinations of only seven different minerals , or rather mineral families . |
| 13 | Soon all but a few protected ones will be replaced by modern boxes . |
| 14 | Conventional programs ( Fig. 2 ) embed the knowledge in the instructions , making it very difficult for all but a few programmers to understand the logic of the program . |
| 15 | In all but a few minor respects , the privileges of the two Houses are the same . |
| 16 | Substantially , however , by convention , the actual power is today exercised , in all but a few relatively minor exceptional cases , by Ministers of the Crown , by the Prime Ministers of the Crown particularly , and especially by a select group of senior Ministers of the Crown meeting in Cabinet . |
| 17 | The Scottish Institute , however , feels that the system is ‘ satisfactory in all but a few cases ’ . |
| 18 | I also found it hard to deal with the petty bourgeois outlook of all but a few of the girls at that private school . |
| 19 | For all but a few of you , however , the pattern of working and the hierarchy itself will have changed beyond recognition . |
| 20 | These claims may be inflated for Crockett and Tubbs , but they do suggest strengths in Mann 's latest project , The Last Of The Mohicans , an American adventure story set in the 18th Century , written in the 19th and now given an energy forgotten by all but a few '90s action directors . |
| 21 | All but a few households in Britain relied for heating on solid fuel fires in the principal room , and few considered it necessary to heat bedrooms or bathrooms continuously , even in winter . |
| 22 | The writings of one of the great visionaries of the period , the Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , were not allowed to be published and he remained little more than a name , if even that , to all but a few scholars . |
| 23 | As suggested above , one of the central planks in Lord Devlin 's argument that the law does not simply exist to protect the individual , but also to protect society , was the fact that in all but a few cases the victim may not consent to the commission of an offence against themselves . |
| 24 | Even the conservatives in the House could not be entirely depended on , for all but a few of them were no more than ‘ Hooverites ’ to use Stockman 's contemptuous label ; they were keen on budget-cutting only up to a point and were anxious that the budget should be balanced , but they had no stomach for swingeing tax cuts — the main article of the supply-side faith . |
| 25 | All but a few of the team were destined for careers in uniform , and played little more . |
| 26 | In all but a few cases their treason had been petty , enlisting in the German ranks after being taken prisoner or something of that sort . |
| 27 | Only 27 per cent ( 153 ) of the Drugs Council users and 31 per cent ( 61 ) of those at the Detoxification Unit lived in their own accommodation , and all but a few of the remaining majority lived with parents or relatives ( 70 per cent at the Drugs Council , and 66 per cent at the Detoxification Unit ) . |
| 28 | Political society formed a complex network of lordship and service , in which all but a few misfits had some place . |
| 29 | In all but a few cases interviews were taped . |
| 30 | The moon was not yet up and a high , thin bank of cloud obscured all but a few stars . |