Example sentences of "[art] more than a few " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The worst case was in July 1989 when an alternator set fell off at around 100mph at Harrow on the main line into Euston and caused a major derailment , fortunately with no more than a few injuries . |
| 2 | That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus . |
| 3 | The truth he got , but , when he rose to his feet at the splendid Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre to declare the summit open , no more than a few people present had any inkling of what he was about to say . |
| 4 | No more than a few hundred of these are used with any frequency . |
| 5 | Loverboy tries hard to be hilarious , but raises no more than a few laughs . |
| 6 | As semiconducting material , he uses a thin transparent film of not particularly pure ( and cheap ) titanium dioxide particles , each no more than a few nanometres in size . |
| 7 | Visibility had been reduced to no more than a few yards . |
| 8 | But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left . |
| 9 | It had a resale value , even if it was no more than a few lire . |
| 10 | This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone , but is no more than a few metres thick at most . |
| 11 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 12 | No more than a few minutes , mind . ’ |
| 13 | Happiness , wonderful as it is , is a transient thing , often lasting no more than a few moments . |
| 14 | Civil servants may have spent no more than a few million pounds on the metals , although they may authorise more hefty purchases later . |
| 15 | I have therefore made each chapter short , no more than a few pages , and have picked the most vivid examples in each case . |
| 16 | The toad is quickly dropped and escapes — with no more than a few minor punctures if it is lucky . |
| 17 | There was something mysterious about him and she wanted to ask so many questions , but he had that locked-in look , so that even if she risked Salt 's caustic tongue and asked outright about how he 'd come to be a slave , what it was like in Jamaica , if Africa was full of cannibals and if he 'd eaten people , she 'd probably get no more than a few shrugs for answers . |
| 18 | You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone . |
| 19 | Although her brother , Bert , was now employed by a local fisherman , Arnold Spence , and could do no more than a few day 's work at Four Winds now and then , nevertheless her new arrangements left Harriet free to work outside herself and this regular exercise had a calming effect , releasing her from a great deal of inner tension . |
| 20 | A frequent or constant urge to urinate , which may be so strong you feel you may ‘ lose control ’ , even though you can actually pass no more than a few drops |
| 21 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 22 | In total no more than a few dozen local groups existed at different times in the 1840s and 1850s . |
| 23 | It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years . |
| 24 | Saving on housing is more than often , very unwise , when depreciated over a period of 10 years , the extra cost may be no more than a few eggs per bird extra . |
| 25 | For the foreseeable future , units involving the microcomputer as a teaching aid can only contribute to a very small proportion of curriculum time — at present certainly no more than a few hundred hours out of about 50,000 hours of ‘ different ’ teaching in the school curriculum for ages 5 to 18 . |
| 26 | A shy doe stood stock-still , observing us from no more than a few feet away . |
| 27 | In the darkness we passed through the defile of Gebel Silsila where the river narrows dramatically to a width of no more than a few yards . |
| 28 | In many cases git consists of no more than a few managers/supervisors . |
| 29 | The genius of English painting was turning to the grandeur and the detail of Nature — Turner , Constable , Wright of Derby , Gainsborough — all coming here , sometimes no more than a few yards from the wood in which Mary was now making her way , also driven by the strange , indefinable current of change , as powerful and mysterious as the turn of a tide , which now decreed that the study of man should be through Nature . |
| 30 | Without the smallest impoliteness , he managed to exchange no more than a few greetings for the rest of the day , preferring the potency of elusiveness . |