Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and one of the few movies where he 's not going around shouting he was drinking , but he was n't shouting |
| 2 | For instance bedrooms , much more use of bedrooms for actually living , particularly for children , although I think that is one of the few instances where you can discover class patterns if you like . |
| 3 | ‘ It was one of the few races where I 've been happy with my performance . |
| 4 | The few cases where we know how a girl entered the trade show a mixture of influences . |
| 5 | The political activity of women is limited and , in the few cases where they do achieve positions of some power , these positions are often linked to the traditional female role . |
| 6 | However , in the few cases where it does occur , this type of update pattern makes timing calculations relatively easy . |
| 7 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 8 | He used to work as a policeman and , on the few occasions when he was in extreme danger , automatically did whatever had to be done without any thought for his own safety . |
| 9 | He was impressed by her intelligence and , on the few occasions when he asked her opinion , by the growing assurance of her taste . |
| 10 | On the few occasions when she had been compelled to enter the water , she had stayed in the very shallowest part of the pool and had never for a moment released her grip on the handrail . |
| 11 | One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son . |
| 12 | It was the first time the monarch had ever used a Thames passenger ferry — and one of the few occasions when she had arrived at an official engagement by public transport in the UK . |
| 13 | Some information on survivors is very sketchy , and in order to maintain some form of balance in the listing , we have refrained from giving serial numbers , registrations ( in the few places where they apply ) or similar . |
| 14 | For the very poorest the station was one of the few places where they could encounter the better-off , and attempt some income redistribution by the provision of services like newspaper-selling , boot-blacking , hawking , or simply begging . |
| 15 | That house was one of the few places where I preferred to be different from the others . |
| 16 | A few moments later they were under the silver birches and as the sun rose , striking flashes of red and green from the drops on ferns and twigs , they scrambled through the hedge , across a shallow ditch and into the thick grass of the meadow . |
| 17 | ‘ Let's go into the garden , ’ he said tersely , and a few moments later they were gliding along the path that wound down to the river 's edge , their way lit by a bright moon that stretched a blue path towards them across the water . |
| 18 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 19 | Then a few moments later he bemoaned — at great length — how London was getting increasingly ‘ homogenized and pasteurized ’ , milking the issue for all it was worth . |
| 20 | A few moments later he returned , scratching his chin thoughtfully . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're nearly there , ’ he said soothingly , and a few moments later he escorted her through the elaborate palm Court which was the entrance to the Royal Hotel . |
| 22 | Only a few moments later he is being sympathetic with Cassio — ‘ What , are you hurt , lieutenant ? … |
| 23 | A few moments later he said : ‘ All clear . |
| 24 | A few moments later he raised his head , to catch a gasp of breath and then to mutter softly in her ear , ‘ There has n't been a day — or night — in the last four years when I have n't missed you . |
| 25 | A few moments later he was scuttling through the palace 's corridors holding the message capsule and — owing to carelessness brought on by surprise — sucking at the nasty beak wound on the back of his hand . |
| 26 | A few moments later he pulled into the gravelled forecourt of a large house . |
| 27 | But er , that 's a great advantage when compared with the newly appointed British Ambassador in Washington , who having just arrived in Washington , er picked up the telephone and heard a voice at the other end , say , what do you want for Christmas , it was just before Christmas , what do you want for Christmas , and he thought hastily and , did n't want to be impolite or too greedy , so he said a small box of crystallised fruit , and put the telephone down , and a few momen a few moments later he put on the radio , and the announcer said , we 've just conducted our normal review of the Ambassadors ' wishes for Christmas , er , the the Ambassadors in Washington . |
| 28 | A few moments later he had regained control , but it was clear that he was still dreadfully upset when he revealed , ‘ Yesterday — everything seemed to bubble up inside me and , and I thought — I thought I could n't cope any more with a relationship that was n't a … with loving someone who I knew loved me but who was , because of her upbringing , her beliefs , her parents , convention — fear of scandal — propriety — you name it , I went through the lot yesterday . ’ |
| 29 | A few moments later he shivered again , sneezed and decided the time had come to return to his mates and forget it . |
| 30 | A few moments later she came back to me . |