Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have found Roman , medieval and Georgian losses within a few yards when working suburban grass verges . |
| 2 | This is because they can include additional short irradiations for elements with isotopes of very short half-lives , from a few minutes to a few hours , although this increases the analyst 's work . |
| 3 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 4 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 5 | Pisco sour proved to be a local brandy whisked up with white of egg and the juice of fresh limes with a few drops of angostura bitters lying like dark bloodstains on the white bed of foam . |
| 6 | Though the unit still has responsibility for keeping ministers informed of developments in the UK oil and gas industry , most of the 86 staff working for OSO now focus on worldwide developments , including opportunities in the former Soviet republics and other areas which were closed markets to British exporters until a few years ago . |
| 7 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's a patch of grass a few feet by a few feet , ’ I informed him , suddenly aware that Mr Palmer had never visited Chelsea Terrace in his life . |
| 9 | The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks . |
| 10 | He had no political aims and did not lead a faction , although he sought lesser posts for a few clients . |
| 11 | These have short periods , from a few days to a few weeks . |
| 12 | So I do n't know do you , do you fancy now kind of giving the different versions to a few people by way of er er |
| 13 | This process can take anything from a few weeks to a few months . |
| 14 | In the Sheriff Court the adjustment period can range from a few weeks to a few months , depending on the whim of the Sheriff . |
| 15 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 16 | The preparations for an " open-book " examination should rather consist of preparing adequate notes — possibly in swot-card form of all aspects of the work , with , perhaps , the support of marked passages in a few textbooks . |
| 17 | We mere peasant members are asked , in practice if not in theory , merely to murmur reverentially a few names of a few decent people into a few of the proper ears , who will then look after everything for us . |
| 18 | The train brought one or two doubtful comments from a few WSR enginemen about 3822 's abilities with such a heavy train on the line 's hard gradients . |
| 19 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 20 | He wanted a few answers to a few riddles . |
| 21 | In Syria , special forces were moved into every major town soon after the onset of war with orders to shoot to prevent further demonstrations after a few spontaneous outbursts of public protest occurred in the east of the country . |
| 22 | Although the endless state visits to Harare or Mauretania always climaxed with the publication of pompous declarations and assertions that trade was going to increase by generous percentages within a few years , the consequences of these visits were negligible apart from providing a few more exhibits for the trophy rooms in Bucharest . |
| 23 | The often surprising results of the January Old Master drawing sales in New York revealed that it is just as easy to overspend on a drawing as it is on a painting , and conversely , that despite high prices for a few grand names , drawings still remain a little understood and modestly priced field . |
| 24 | If they made the bead taste bitter , by dipping it in alcohol , or quinine , or the pungent methylanthranilate , then the chick would peck once , show disgust by shaking its head vigorously and wiping its beak on the floor of its pen , and then back away , refusing to peck at a similar but dry bead offered any time from a few seconds to a few days subsequently . |
| 25 | Is he not handing over public assets to a few of his Conservative cronies ? |
| 26 | He wrote letters to her , funny ones with a few clumsy sentences about missing her . |
| 27 | Most species are a few centimetres to a few tens of centimetres long . |
| 28 | In turn , ‘ a striking development ’ , as the 1974 Press Commission researchers called it , was ‘ the concentration of the ownership of newspapers in contiguous towns into a few hands ’ ( Hartley et al. , 1977 , p. 73 ) . |
| 29 | At the same time , the social benefits in the few years since 1979 have been significant . |
| 30 | A wide variety of jobs are undertaken , ranging from 100,000 copy reprints of dictionaries , to specialized runs of a few hundreds . |