Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [art] few " in BNC.

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1 provide an opportunity to carry out a few simple tests ( such as checking your blood pressure ) :
2 Diana not only ostentatiously wore outfits that she had been seen in before — to knock a few criticisms on the head about the money she spent on her wardrobe — but she also seized the opportunity to kill off a few more misconceptions .
3 In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females .
4 Even the currently flourishing Pinnacle Distribution did a kamikaze act just a few years ago , decimating the indie scene .
5 I could give examples of how people have been pursued beyond the grave to pull back a few miserly pounds of poll tax payment .
6 It helps to ask the client 's permission to jot down a few facts .
7 In his office an anxious Herr Nordern gouged out a few marks from unenthusiastic colleagues for a wreath for Steinmark 's funeral .
8 There must be very few bird reserves situated only a few minutes ' walk from the centre of a town which turn out to be as rewarding as Radipole Lake , another RSPB reserve .
9 In 1961 , the President made only a few shadowy and conventional gestures to the black community .
10 The pictures show just a few shapes of wagon .
11 Pedestrians scampered blindly across the road to catch waiting buses , the cars jerked ahead a few yards every time the traffic lights turned to green .
12 Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again .
13 These anomalies caused not a few petty grouses .
14 There can be few other places in Europe which offer the wildlife art student such a plethora of interesting species ; Black Necked Grebe , Spoonbill , and Purple Heron to name only a few .
15 It was certainly slow , but then computers somehow nowadays can take months to turn out a few seconds of screen time .
16 Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall , powerful figure standing just a few feet away .
17 Donna flicked ahead a few pages but could see no way of hastening her search for the information she sought .
18 This bioluminescence is more common in the oceans , where the sun 's light penetrates only a few hundreds of metres down , leaving many animals in perpetual twilight or night .
19 Petty sessions throw up a few cases , but not many .
20 One point to remember , incidentally , is that in those days all recordings were played at 78 rpm , so each side ran only a few minutes .
21 The horse jumped forward a few paces with his limbs bunched up and then , holding himself for a brief moment in a static rear , galloped off in sheer terror down the path .
22 This leap into the future comes only a few months after the dest … ruction by fire of — ’
23 Although Serb lines are within range of Bosnian artillery on nearby Igman mountain , the Bosnians have only a few tanks and not much ammunition .
24 Mrs Czermak received only a few cuts and bruises but her victim was killed instantly .
25 During which the authorities relax even the few laws and rules that normally exist .
26 My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office .
27 It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers .
28 Sharon , 25 , and 27-year-old Hamdi met at Nottingham University — then discovered their parents lived just a few streets away from each other in Birmingham .
29 On the other hand there are those whose speaking vocabulary contains only a few hundred words of not more than three syllables and their reading vocabulary not many more .
30 The answer to this question has not a few repercussions in the social world that sociologists study — often for purely secular reasons .
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