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

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1 In the World , marioc is a luxury enjoyed by the few .
2 If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally .
3 We might enter the room and sing our greeting accompanied by a few dance steps , but ask yourself whether the message might not be obliterated by the way our actions would be interpreted .
4 Carrick has long stopped hoping , calculating that age and immobility caused by a few excess pounds count against him .
5 In the past , the Falkland sheep farmers looked on birds of prey as their enemies , but more enlightened attitudes are nowadays evident — at least in areas frequented by the few tourists visiting the islands .
6 The open left issues from the wraps at waist-level , close vertical folds hanging from the wrist , while over the rest the stuff lies in broad , smooth areas cut by a few sharp folds determined by the left knee .
7 Some of the stories will now appear dated , and as the years ticked by a few of his novels did tend to veer on to the wrong side of the far-fetched .
8 It is true that the quality of most waters runs in cycles ; a few years of mediocre fish followed by a few years of quality fish .
9 Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium .
10 Apart from very old and antique items , the only contemporary rugs to fall into this category are masterworkshop rugs , and possible a handful of the very finest items produced by a few " high category " groups .
11 There is still a handful of tiny fishing villages with idyllic beaches fronted by a few discreet villas — Salema , for instance , at the very west of the Algarve , and around Tavira , the prettiest town on the Algarve , east of Faro .
12 But there was a motor bike went by a few minutes ago .
13 The ASB has highlighted two methods of dubious interpretation used by a few companies so far .
14 However , given their risk-loving nature , greater protection is purchased by a low probability of a large prize rather than a high probability of a modest prize ; i.e. a society characterized by a few ‘ glittering prizes ’ awarded on the basis of equality of opportunity recommends itself .
15 Bourdieu 's articles on markets preceded by a few years his pieces on ‘ fields ’ .
16 This took no longer than a couple of seconds to see and understand , a near-abstract image accompanied by a few words .
17 Our morning walk along the cliffs gave us terrific views of the secluded white sand bays dotted along the coastline followed by a few hours on Pompièrre beach where the locals meet to picnic .
18 Just time for a quick honeymoon followed by a few fond farewells , and the intrepid sailor was off again on board his old ship on 17 February , leaving his second wife to look after her newly-acquired stepchildren , Elizabeth Eliza and Robert Edward , in his absence .
19 Innsbruck , the famous Olympic ski resort is another excursion where you have a fascinating guided coach tour of the city followed by a few hours to explore for yourselves .
20 It shows that the total cost was to be 11650 and that a Grant of £300 had been received from a private Debt Extinction Fund subscribed by a few individuals to assist poor congregations .
21 His deputy , a Scot , later received a circular from the Food and Dairy Products Committee which extended all expiry dates by a few weeks .
22 Instead of a series of national financial systems linked by a few operators buying and selling credit across the exchanges , we now have a global system , in which national markets , physically separate , function as if they were all in the same place .
23 They were the weavers followed by a few tottering sailors who had just come out of another tavern .
24 The sequence of production of the dies suggest that three ‘ generations ’ of dies are represented , each generation represented by a few new designs and the abandonment of some of the original ones
25 Another treats the upheaval as a crusade for liberty led by a few heroic dissidents .
26 The monastery was borne along on a buoyant prosperity which , while it may have contributed to the dissatisfactions and distractions felt by the few , drew most of its members together in a sense of their importance and independence , and hastened the disappearance of earlier divisions .
27 The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance .
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