Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | After all , if ‘ the system ’ really was bent upon the form of totalizing control that according to Foucault psychoanalysis , for example , enables , it is worth recalling that psychoanalysis has never been adopted by the state as such and that its activities remain confined to a few very limited districts in a handful of prosperous cities round the world . |
2 | Newman had stopped walking for a few moments , his mind racing . |
3 | Among primates , especially close collaboration between parents has developed in a few forest-dwelling animals as diverse as gibbons on the one hand and the tiny marmosets on the other . |
4 | Jessamy stopped drawing for a few moments . |
5 | At first , the Sisters themselves tried knocking in a few nails or propping up walls with staves . |
6 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
7 | However , one the " dose and move " system has operated for a few years this problem is unlikely to arise . |
8 | The literature of the castle , published by the 29th Laird of Dunvegan , John Macleod of Macleod , makes the business plain : ‘ Since the castle was first opened to the public more than forty years ago , the number of visitors has risen from a few hundred to tens of thousands ’ — many of them Macleod descendants from the New World . |
9 | They will also be able to supply you with a list of suitable short-term homes for the elderly in your area , to which your parent might consider going for a few weeks each year in order that you may have a holiday , if there is no other member of the family who could take over your responsibilities in your absence . |
10 | Windsor Davies has appeared in a few but he 's er not one of the regular ones . |
11 | THE Director of Public Prosecutions , Mr Allan Green , QC , is expected to decide within a few weeks whether to press corporate manslaughter charges against British Rail , the Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday . |
12 | If feeding and antibiotics continued to be administered Tony could be expected to live for a few more years . |
13 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
14 | And what has happened before a few years have passed ? |
15 | And now that Lucy had resolved to stay for a few days , she decided to tell her aunt to expect her when she saw her . |
16 | Neil Anderson from Ireland wants to get into the few rooms that the bunch of keys and big iron key wo n't open . |
17 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
18 | He promised to return within a few weeks , bearing a bonnet of fashionable design . |
19 | Some stopped dividing after a few hours and remained generalised in form and in dense clusters . |
20 | These reasons may not be entirely true , but since formal advice on radon exposure was first issued in 1987 by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) great concern has arisen in the few areas of the country that have high radon levels . |
21 | ‘ Donkey has waited for a few minutes . |
22 | After its recognition in 1936 and its description as a clinical entity in 1938 , the prognosis has improved from a few months of life to a median age of survival of over 20 years . |
23 | The first photoelectrochemical cells also had low efficiencies and stopped working after a few hours — this time due to light-induced erosion of the semiconducting electrode . |
24 | Unfortunately , the ethos of competitive assessment often leads the student who has failed on a few tasks ( e.g. learned more slowly than other people ) to feel that he/she has failed as a person . |
25 | In May 1977 the policy was amended , when it was decided to concentrate on a few tourist growth points in areas of rural depopulation where there was unrealized tourist potential . |
26 | We have seen accomplished within a few brief months or years reforms to which we should have assigned , not decades , but generations . |
27 | He 'd played with a few friends over the years but never managed to overcome the logistics of forming and fronting a band . |
28 | The sex exclusive markers which do indeed occur in some languages are superficially striking , but on closer inspection they can be seen to result from a few regular and predictable rules acting on the same basic structures . |
29 | It was difficult to raise the vein as the filly staggered around , but she came to rest for a few seconds and I dug my thumb into the jugular furrow . |
30 | That would be her neighbour wanting to chat for a few minutes . |