Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | After allowing for a few thousand of natural increase , the Serb and Montenegrin population of Kosovo would have fallen from 237,000 in 1981 to about 220,000 in 1986 . |
| 2 | Persian rugs have traditionally been considered the most expensive and easily re-saleable of all oriental rugs , and allowing for a few notable exceptions ( usually older and more collectable items from different parts of the world ) , this assumption has generally held true . |
| 3 | Around £150 for family holidays , allowing for a few days reasonably riding as part of the package . |
| 4 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
| 5 | It was very simple , efficient , and reliable in operation , with the minor disadvantage that the vaporizer required preheating for a few minutes before the engine could be started ; when running , it retained sufficient heat to ignite the injected fuel . |
| 6 | Excuse me I 've got not exactly hay-fever but I think I 'm going to be sneezing for a few minutes . |
| 7 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 8 | Newman had stopped walking for a few moments , his mind racing . |
| 9 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 10 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 11 | When he came to the surface , by some obscure miracle his leash had held , and his board was bobbing about a few yards away . |
| 12 | Heat the oil and gently fry the spring onions without browning for a few minutes . |
| 13 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 14 | It was happening with a few students because I was still teaching for two or three months after ‘ Surfing ’ was released . |
| 15 | Though natural light was obviously not an amenity they thought much of , there are traces of glazing in a few of those infrequent and shapeless holes that howl in the wind ; elsewhere , of a primitive and not altogether unsuccessful stab at ferrocrete . |
| 16 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 17 | At first , the Sisters themselves tried knocking in a few nails or propping up walls with staves . |
| 18 | Im happy for us to stick with the present team ( when DOL fit ) , unless we start to make obvious cock ups in one postition. the team looks balanced and functional as it is … just need the forwards to start knocking in a few more goals … |
| 19 | I hope he can start knocking in a few goals because we need players who want to play for the club . |
| 20 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 21 | I remember two aunts and an uncle , all very dear to me , dying within a few months . |
| 22 | Last night Dr Clarke 's election agent Kevin Scott said : ‘ One of our supporters lives in Vine Street and Donald and I went knocking on a few doors . |
| 23 | The coffin , consisting of a few planks , was carried from the workhouse by other inmates ; it was not allowed in the church , but was met by the parson at the graveside . |
| 24 | As noticed ( p. 59 ) it is now known that the graptolites were an extinct branch of the phylum Hemichordata , an insignificant group today , consisting of a few encrusting colonial organisms . |
| 25 | Wetlands transitional to wet pastures were also noted but in spite of considerable travel in these areas , I noted only two active drainage schemes , both consisting of a few open ditches mainly to facilitate surface water runoff . |
| 26 | The cost of evening courses or those consisting of a few sessions in a school of nursing cost considerably less than residential week long courses or part-time variations held over a period of several months . |
| 27 | Such units , consisting of a few closely related families , contain between a dozen and sixty individuals who live together and cultivate under the direction of their elder , whose chief responsibility is the allocation and control of arable land . |
| 28 | Even very simple parts , consisting of a few long notes , are effective . |
| 29 | ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’ |
| 30 | As part of the process of writing from the very beginning , and writing in small steps , from the first day you should write down , and keep available , notes consisting of a few sentences on each of the following : ( a ) the essay 's hypothesis ( the claim it is interested in exploring ) ; ( b ) the evidence or data you are going to use ( the facts , quotes , parallel cases from other texts , etc. , that you are in the process of collecting ) ; ( c ) brief statements of your ideas so far ; ( d ) in the case of a longer dissertation , the preliminary results of a " literature search " ( a survey of bibliographies to find things to read ) . |