Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ? |
| 2 | It was lightly teased into the top few inches of soil , after rain , to top up the fertility and to ensure that there are banked reserves to see crops through their long winter haul . |
| 3 | Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out . |
| 4 | Persistent surface weedkillers remain active in the top few centimetres of the soil , killing new weeds as they germinate , yet they do not harm most established roses , shrubs and trees , whose roots are well below the surface . |
| 5 | For example , there is enough material in a glass of water to run a car for ten years , enough in the top few centimetres of Lake Erie to power New York State for a similar time and enough in the oceans to keep us going indefinitely . |
| 6 | A typical microcomputer system therefore consists of a microprocessor chip , one or more ROM chips , one or more RAM chips ( to hold variable data ) , and a further chip to decode the top few bits of the 16-bit address coming from the microprocessor , in order to direct it to the appropriate store chip . |
| 7 | The top few levels of such a classification would go |
| 8 | Attaching carpet piercing spikes to the base , and making sure the system pierces the top few millimetres of wood below the carpet adds further to security . |
| 9 | He undid his tie so that it hung loose around his neck and unfastened the top few buttons on his shirt . |
| 10 | Though still dressed , he had removed his jacket and tie , and the top few buttons of his shirt were undone . |
| 11 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 12 | The same two kinds of explanations could also apply to the layering of the outer few kilometres of the Apollo 17 site . |
| 13 | Our measurements give values of 1.83x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R54 ) and 2.78x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R151 ) in the central few degrees of retina , and 5.57x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R54 ) and 4.69x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R151 ) in the remaining region ( Table 1 ) . |
| 14 | Her next door neighbour , a Mrs. Ellen Greaves , gave evidence that she had constantly challenged Esther Dyson in sign language ( which she had learnt through daily contact with the deaf brother and sister ) over the preceding few months about her being in the family way . |
| 15 | An extended duct is available to accommodate the extra few inches of depth created by a cavity wall |
| 16 | Advantages were the vacuum facility ( worth the extra few pounds above the price of the blower model ) , light weight and length of nozzle . |
| 17 | ‘ The extra few days off helped Gough , but it was n't my intention to play him at Aberdeen if the midweek game had been on . ’ |
| 18 | To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc . |
| 19 | The feel of Master Harry 's mallet in his hand , the way the heel of it swung in his palm , filled him with a fever of ambition and impatience , and he could not wait the threatened few days for the assay . |
| 20 | When it has done this , it replaces the worst few strings with new strings , formed by randomly blending a random selection of the best strings . |
| 21 | So , after the inevitable few months of bereavement , Amy went to work on herself , for herself . |
| 22 | By this arrangement we could position Viking almost to the nearest few inches with all the lines taut , a degree of control which was most essential in view of our position and the variations of tide and swell . |
| 23 | You will already be feeling fitter , healthier , and be starting to shed the first few pounds of excess weight . |
| 24 | Those whose entitlement is established , however , will find that not only the first few pounds of some other form of income they have may be disregarded , but the value of a house they own or occupy is not counted as part of their income . |
| 25 | In fact , after the first few minutes of wriggling and giggling , he began to enjoy it . |
| 26 | There are even techniques for mirroring the other person 's non-verbal behaviours for the first few minutes of meeting them , and then testing whether rapport has been established by changing your visual behaviours to see whether the other person will reciprocate by mirroring yours . |
| 27 | The first few minutes of the film were somehow missing , but he watched it through to the end . |
| 28 | And Cambridge almost wrapped up the game in the first few minutes of the second half but were denied by Oldham goalkeeper John Keeley , who pulled off an excellent save to push away a curling , 20-yard Chris Leadbetter free-kick , then fingertipped a header from Mick Heathcote on to the crossbar . |
| 29 | In the first few minutes of their greetings , the real purpose of Nora 's trip was forgotten by them both . |
| 30 | A feeling of warm-up is definitely in the air ; a flexing of muscles that have not been stretched in public for some time makes up the first few minutes of Faust 's extraordinary set … and then all hell breaks loose ! |