Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke smiled again , reaching across the few inches of space Fran had managed to leave between them to catch her hand and raise it to his lips as he pressed a lovingly tender kiss to her fingertips . |
| 2 | Below and above him were overhangs ; he had lost all his equipment ; the few inches of rock beneath his feet threatened to crumble away ; a blizzard tore at him constantly ; his situation was entirely hopeless . |
| 3 | In one of the few studies of evacuation behaviour after a non-nuclear hazard event Liverman and Wilson ( 1981 ) give weight to this argument . |
| 4 | Although she did not even turn to look at him , a delicious warmth began to spread through her inert form — as though some electrical force was quietly pulsing across the few feet of water separating their bodies . |
| 5 | This willingness to forgive past wrongs is one of the few signs of hope for this benighted province ; but it is not enough to bring peace . |
| 6 | However , even when the dinner was over , their ‘ guests ’ showed no sign of leaving , at which point the Emperor began to pull on the ends of his moustache — one of the few signs of irritation he ever allowed himself . |
| 7 | One of the few signs of encouragement to emerge from the reported cases considered here is that some current employee inventors can not easily be ‘ bought off ’ by employers anxious to avoid compensation claims . |
| 8 | Nor had the sudden coolness between himself and Mrs J. Roscoe escaped most of the other tourists ; indeed , this development was proving one of the few topics of conversation as the coach accelerated along the dual carriageway towards Woodstock . |
| 9 | Certainly it is one of the few areas of growth : between 1985 and 1990 the advertising spend in Britain grew 75 per cent , but the spend on direct mail grew 101 per cent . |
| 10 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 11 | In an official statement , the BRE said that the few cases of rot it knew about were in every case directly attributable to rising damp or to rain penetration : |
| 12 | Which has its own story : Jagger 's lips , Hendrix 's cock , Bolan 's gin , Prince 's tongue , Morrissey 's nipple ( one of the few options of indecency left , to revel , to splay oneself-as-object , play thing ) . |
| 13 | The silver-haired Dubcek was one of the few figures of authority in Slovakia . |
| 14 | In a country where the media is state controlled and acts as a mouthpiece for the Party , putting up posters was one of the few forms of communication and free expression . |
| 15 | Community theatre was one of the few forms of communication which managed to flourish under President Stroessner 's dictatorship in Paraguay . |
| 16 | Even the few pots of make-up on the blue-flowered dressing table seemed to be standing to attention . |
| 17 | One of the few draw-backs of computer faxes is that they treat all faxes as bitmap files and gobble up memory at an alarming rate . |
| 18 | Mr Smith , 53 , is one of the few members of Labour 's front-bench team with Cabinet experience . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the housing benefit has removed one of the few rights of protest left to the poor tenant in terrible housing conditions — arrears . |
| 20 | The few experiences of community education , linking formal with non-formal methods such as the bi-lingual education in Scotland , have only begun to demonstrate the validity of a community orientated approach to learning . |
| 21 | Athelstan promptly refused , for the few mouthfuls of ale he had already drunk bit at his stomach . |
| 22 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 23 | ( 193 ) In Bonn , the few hours of talk and the banquets with West German leaders were made to produce , by all accounts , the information he needed . |
| 24 | The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again . |
| 25 | Given the few moments of contemplation she 'd wanted , it would probably have been her own choice for the evening . |
| 26 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
| 27 | I find an old plastic carrier bag , tip out the few bits of string and wire it contains and replace them with a handful of rusty bolts from the biscuit tin . |
| 28 | These Bible stories must be one of the few sources of information about dreaming made available during the course of our children 's education . |
| 29 | In a recent book , a German scholar , Konrad Dilger , mounts a sustained attack on the Kanunname as a document of the period of Mehmed II ; and , as the Kanunname is one of the few sources of information about the ulema in the early period , his remarks deserve serious attention in the present study . |
| 30 | I walked as in a nightmare , aware of nothing but the few yards of tarmac ahead and stopping every few yards . |