Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | France , he adds , is one of the few countries where science and technology has a future . |
| 2 | In the few authorities where waste goes to modern landfills and methane is piped off for positive use , there is some energy payback , but there must be more incentive to separate the 40 per cent of the domestic waste that is vegetable-derived , and recycle it as compost . |
| 3 | Cos I said to him I 've never known it as slack as this in , in the few weeks before christmas . |
| 4 | After two complete runs of the 15-minute piece he looked visibly tired when asked to provide a couple of extra takes covering the few bars where orchestra members were off key . |
| 5 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 6 | However , there are a few areas where confusion might arise . |
| 7 | Sure , there are a few areas where quality control could be bettered , but basically the instrument does not suffer in any way . |
| 8 | He says a few inches either way and he would have been killed . |
| 9 | A few inches either way and police officers could have been seriously injured or even killed . |
| 10 | And then they 'd have a big auction for a few pounds where Dad used to do the auctioning and since he was a sergeant major one could hear his voice . |
| 11 | Some politicians believe the public would prefer to pay a few pounds more council tax and less in insurance |
| 12 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 13 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 14 | So this statement could be him trying to play down the incident … remember there were a few incidents where cuntona was reported to have stormed off to france . |
| 15 | And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation . |
| 16 | A few minutes later music drones from his room . |
| 17 | USA hooker Tony Flay had to be replaced following an ugly facial cut and a few minutes later replacement hooker Pat Johnson had his nose broken by a punch . |
| 18 | Just a few minutes later French was released on bail pending an appeal . |
| 19 | A few minutes later Pet was back . |
| 20 | Rachel walked out on to the main road a few minutes later feeling overwhelmed with guilt . |
| 21 | These are a few examples where cost is an important reason for the under-use of services by the lower socio-economic groups . |
| 22 | A few days later inflammation had diminished and in some animals the jejunum looked macroscopically normal . |
| 23 | Just a few days later baby Joe was born , weighing just four and three quarter pounds , but healthy ; living proof that rhesus babies now have the chance they deserve . |
| 24 | A few days later rumour spread that a thousand tinners intended to march on Looe . |
| 25 | A few days later president Wilson proclaimed his ‘ Fourteen Points ’ , his own version of the new consensus . |
| 26 | A few years ago manuscript evidence was discovered that Torriano 's copy of de' Dondi 's clock was still at his house in Toledo in the seventeenth century , and it is therefore unlikely that , as formerly thought , it perished when the convent of San Yuste with its art treasures was set on fire by the French in 1809 . |
| 27 | When they opened the ground at a few years ago Bill was still alive , and er we could go and visit , go into the ground and go and have a look round and it was open to the , the general public . |
| 28 | Vincent said that a few years ago watch batteries had to be renewed every year . |
| 29 | Within a few years both Port and Brimscombe Mills were again run together , by P.C. Evans and Sons . |
| 30 | One similar order affected a shellfish farm in Loch Moidart a few miles further north , but that was granted to the Government 's Sea Fish Industry Authority for research . |