Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a simple pre-take off litany ( minus the F for flaps ) which should be familiar to any Cessna 150 pilot , the Aircoupe accelerated down Halfpenny Green 's Runway 34 in a formation take-off , becoming airborne in a few hundred feet before I had to throttle back to keep in station with the hard-climbing 172 camera ship . |
| 2 | According to the Yugoslav news agency , Tanjug , which still has one of the few non-Romanian journalists operating out of the country , the committee consists of lawyers , artists , and workers , but there is still no sign of a leader or a programme . |
| 3 | For there , just at the point where canal and lake site coincide , she found one of the few recorded colonies of the narrow small reed , tenaciously clinging to the mud . |
| 4 | It seems to have been this last line which caused the editors of the Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound to provide one of the few pieces of misinformation in that admirable work . |
| 5 | But Connery 's antics up in the rainforest canopy at least provide one of the few effective moments in the otherwise slow-moving , uninspired Green adventure Medicine Man ( Guild , PG , out now ) . |
| 6 | Their importance for the teacher is substantial — in a work environment where few other adults directly witness the quality of the teacher 's work , examination results provide one of the few public and apparently objective indicators of a teacher 's competence . |
| 7 | The Wise 's period saw a number of dramatic changes ; Days Mill was enlarged and updated , becoming one of the few in the Nailsworth area to boast the new power-looms . |
| 8 | He said he could do that in a few minutes after getting to his office , and I arranged to ring him later in the morning . |
| 9 | If the user only wishes to produce text on the system and is prepared to restrict this to a few styles and sizes then such a device is perfectly adequate . |
| 10 | She had done this before a few times perhaps , but not that many times . |
| 11 | I once watched a television documentary about St Kilda , during which they interviewed some of the few people living who had been born and had spent their youth on the island . |
| 12 | We would give much for a few case histories , like that of the fourteenth-century merchant of Prato , of how a medieval household actually worked . |
| 13 | Alternatively , you might break the goal down into smaller mini-goals , and spread these over a few weeks . |
| 14 | They had made sure of the few proprietors between there and Dunkeld ; the Duke of Atholl 's authority was weaker here ; tomorrow would be the hard day when they made a drive up to Moulin and Faskally : perhaps they should go and terrify them now while darkness made them lonely ? |
| 15 | Beginning the Cystopurin treatment at the first signs of an attack will usually help you feel better within a few hours . |
| 16 | There are no easy answers , but unless they can be found Europeans run the very real risk of seriously damaging one of the few remaining natural resources available to them . |
| 17 | The exchanges between Bhutto and Ishaq Khan had grown sharper in the few last days of the electoral campaign . |
| 18 | IF you are planning to take part in the sponsored step aerobics session for the day care centre sit tight for a few weeks . |
| 19 | The glaze will stay shiny for a few days but after a week will begin to lose its gloss , so do n't decorate the cake too early . |
| 20 | After lying still for a few minutes , I threw back the duvet , got out of bed , walked to the door of the bedroom , opened the door , switched on the landing light , walked across the landing , opened the bathroom door , went into the bathroom , put the basin plug into the plughole , turned on the hot tap , ran some hot water into the wash basin , looked in the mirror … |
| 21 | Some idea of the strain to which the realm was submitted by these wars will become evident from a few sample years . |
| 22 | Returning to Hradčany Square you can see one of the few original gaslamps depicting a heavily draped Allegory of Prague . |
| 23 | In ten years ' time the Esquire piece will be required reading for any journalist or student researching one of the few creative talents in the cinema today . |
| 24 | On the wall at the end of the Long Room hangs one of the few remaining copies of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic , which was read aloud at the General Post Office on Easter Monday 1916 . |
| 25 | Breuer is a gifted and intelligent freelance scientific writer , and in this volume he has produced one of the few substantive sociobiological works to emanate from Continental Europe . |
| 26 | These are stars which flare up suddenly from near-invisibility to prominence , remaining bright for a few days , weeks or months before fading again . |
| 27 | Or it was just some seventeenth-century Dutch hippie paid to sit still for a few weeks in a dark robe in a cold studio . |
| 28 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 29 | and just make sure about a few things do n't we on the book one . |
| 30 | I 'm getting low on a few colours . |