Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statements with which respondents were invited to entirely agree , agree with qualification , or disagree , were : ( 12 ) Dreams only occur in the few moments before you wake up . |
| 2 | Kislev was already defended by the few remaining Kislevites and a large Dwarf army which had marched northwards once the fall of Praag became known in Karaz a Karak . |
| 3 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
| 4 | Just as the ‘ means of material production ’ is largely held by the few so , too , is the ‘ means of mental production ’ . |
| 5 | But now there was only one thing left for him to do , and that he did , before the shock of Glendower 's assault sheared deep into his ranks , hardly slowed by the few casualties caused by the English archers . |
| 6 | Some tests were also made with the few boxes of plants available at this time . |
| 7 | This contraction was most severely felt by the few employees in the smaller workshops . |
| 8 | Its success is almost invariably limited to the few cases where free advice enables a businessman to make immediate cost savings . |
| 9 | Beeney was well positioned for the few shots he had to take . |
| 10 | I sat around picking over the few facts I knew . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , it wo n't matter for the few yards back to the cottage … ’ |
| 12 | Try to think of those good points of Sarah 's , Christine , and you wo n't mind about the few points she loses ! ’ |
| 13 | The interest is simply focused on the few individuals who commit several serious atrocities . |
| 14 | One has simply to glance at the few fragments of these Galatica ( 745 Jacoby ) — all quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium — to be persuaded that the author of the Galatica is a younger namesake of the great Eratosthenes — perhaps a descendant who noticed the lacunae in the geography of his predecessor . |
| 15 | Most of the houses were well maintained with the few rooms that were still lit disclosing the appurtenances of middle-class living : paintings and prints , a piano , a music-stand , crammed bookshelves . |
| 16 | The two or three families who had come without money or slaves and who had kept themselves rigorously segregated from the few black people they found already on the island , were still shunning newcomers . |
| 17 | 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 . |