Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , since the grant only purchased a few hundred books , these tended to " disappear once distributed around the shelves . |
| 2 | Pamela only had a few friends ( 1 year ) . |
| 3 | His breathing had become rather quick and heavy , and the car suddenly swerved a few feet , as if he was no longer paying any attention to the road ahead . |
| 4 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 5 | Work carried out in the area of ergonomics takes account of the fact that most drivers only have a few tenths of a second to give an order or read information . |
| 6 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 7 | The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours . |
| 8 | Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word . |
| 9 | It was as if he were a sheet of paper torn into many little pieces which she felt she had to cover entirely with her hand , but could not , however hard she tried , because the wind always blew a few of the pieces from between her fingers or from the edge of her palm . |
| 10 | The England ‘ A ’ sweater of Hugh Morris deceived many entrants , while his Glamorgan and England colleague Steve Watkin also posed a few problems of identification . |
| 11 | Burmester also included a few samples contaminated with polyethylene glycol , a modern preservative . |
| 12 | Sue also has a few of her own knitting machines on the premises and makes garments to order as well as to sell to the tourists ! |
| 13 | which would give him a good break really to get a few things done . |
| 14 | A group of Czech teenagers allegedly made a few hundred copies of locally-produced computer software packages and sold them for $10 a piece , after advertising them via direct mail-shots . |
| 15 | Unlike many other contracts , the courts have not exercised a strong influence over the framework of this relationship and the common law only imposes a few terms upon leasehold parties . |
| 16 | ‘ The marriage only lasted a few weeks , but he and Carol remained friends . |
| 17 | The good coach always takes a few unissued licences along on the day for those who have forgotten theirs . |
| 18 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 19 | JPs were for the most part recruited from the greatest landowners in a county , although commissions of the peace often included a few of the humbler type , possibly men with a legal background who were appointed to do the chores . |
| 20 | But it 's unwise to take our bodies to the Grand Prix circuit of running for our lives without doing a few practice laps first . |
| 21 | In Britain , the gulls certainly take a few , see Harris ( 1965 ) , but Cramp et al. |
| 22 | Again using improvisation as its ethos , the album once more finds Talk Talk sailing blissfully off into the unknown , each musician using their own initiative , steering the music through freeform jazz and contemporary classical music , Hollis occasionally adding a few lines of comfort and despair in his fragile and tender voice . |
| 23 | No there seems no logic in taking a , a long barrelled weapon er in as much as the team leader perhaps has a few more responsibilities than the other officers have and I would be going forward to handcuff whoever was in that bo er in that bedroom . |
| 24 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 25 | The whole process only takes a few minutes , although to the distraught owners it can seem like hours . |
| 26 | We got a free bus pass and we , we used our money to , which I 'm glad we did with my husband only having a few years . |
| 27 | Faye still has a few more days to consider the amniocentesis . |
| 28 | that 's it for fans : Norway national team still includes a few guys playing their futba at home . |
| 29 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |
| 30 | I remember some years ago sharing a few dinner dates with a young lady who turned out to be one of Prince Charles 's old friends . |