Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | or 3,500 MN/m 2 after a few hours . |
| 2 | We sat on a tree that had been felled and ate some very tasty ham sandwiches -one of the few picnics I have ever been to . |
| 3 | Most counties carry a professional playing staff sufficient to fill two full elevens plus a few to cover for injuries . |
| 4 | The decimetre-scale interbedding between LDO and nannofossil ooze represents timescales from hundreds to a few thousand years . |
| 5 | However , my parents are both happy , has grown up and is football mad , will be three in a few months , has just turned one and in seven months I will be leaving high school and have my whole future in front of me . |
| 6 | The Olympic qualifying standard had been set at 64.50m so he went seriously into steroid use for the first time and threw a Commonwealth record of 67.32 within a few months . |
| 7 | The success in the 1970s of a few Asian ‘ Newly Industrialising Countries ’ ( NICs ) at making rapid growth in manufactured exports the key to rapid output growth , drew attention to the potential contribution of a ‘ good ’ external strategy . |
| 8 | He will be fifty in a few years ’ time . |
| 9 | 3 After a few minutes , the mind can not cope with the speed , and one partner usually finishes up tangled in a knot . |
| 10 | In a profile of Denis Law written in 1962 the late great Scottish journalist John Rafferty summarised the '60s in a few short condemnatory words . |
| 11 | Timex 's plant in Dundee has stopped making watches ( it now produces printed circuit boards ) , and its workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred . |
| 12 | The diameter of this , one of a few surviving treadwheels , is 15½ feet . |
| 13 | He later became the senior trainer , served the Palace under ten managers and was one of a few staff left at Selhurst during World War Two . |
| 14 | It was in a sad little side street — one of a few survivors from the era of terraced housing before the sprawling council estate was built in the fifties . |
| 15 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 16 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 17 | In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate . |
| 18 | If the defendant was the only person other than the plaintiff using the information ( or one of a few ) then the injunction would be effective to protect the plaintiff and would be granted . |
| 19 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 20 | erm Well not really because erm I believe erm that one was erm one of a few that survived at the erm time of the change of the erm Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Additionally , the cataloguer will be sure to make comparisons , which will be useful to the reader , for the format is one of the few in which a generous number of illustrations can be included . |
| 22 | That is a fact , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , one of the few facts I can swear to , though I find it impossible to explain . |
| 23 | This has been the experience of the Thirties Society in fighting for the retention of the main plan features of the Nag 's Head , one of the few listed pubs of the period . |
| 24 | ‘ Really , ’ exclaimed in heavily scandalized tones one of the few other passengers braving the last gusts of a salt-laden sirocco up on deck , an Englishwoman in an ample frock loud with different coloured daisies . |
| 25 | Festivals are one of the few opportunities in the UK for screening short films , and we will be presenting not just this year 's BFI New Directors shorts , but also programmes of short films from film schools in the UK and Canada , from the Arts Council funded schemes and films funded by the filmmakers themselves . |
| 26 | The screening will follow a Guardian Talk with Lynda La Plante , one of the few women to have established herself in television drama as a writer . |
| 27 | I do n't care what you say , they really are marvellous creatures and one of the few animals in God 's world that do absolutely nothing but good . |
| 28 | And Keith is one of the few Englishmen I know who really likes Spencer , the rest dismiss him as representative of an imperial , conservative , rural English idyll . |
| 29 | Discovered at one of the LTA 's 3 Star Clubs at King George 's Comprehensive school , by the father of local professional coach Harvey Slater ( who now coaches the youngster ) , Joanne , who is about to leave school for a year of full time playing , is one of the few British juniors who has the ability to ‘ kick ’ and break from the pack . |
| 30 | From Australia , former Woodworker editor , Peter Collenette sends a report on the Tasmanian furniture-maker , Alan Livermore , who is one of the few designer-makers to have his designs made in factories and in his own workshop . |