Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had lost his bearings on a trip to nearby shops a few weeks earlier . |
| 2 | Rocky and sandy sea coasts , rarely on freshwater lakes a few miles inland . |
| 3 | I never buy it of fortnightly so I I 'll go to the shop and I 'll say , Right , probably seven tins of beans , seven tins of peas , er you know a few tins a few beans er tins of spaghetti and things like that you know , bits and bobs , but I 'll still get a joint for me Sundays . |
| 4 | Public parks came in the 1840s , and public libraries a few years later ; later still perhaps the grandiose Town Hall , by no means always to be despised as architecture . |
| 5 | The first is to design and construct local services for the majority of mentally disordered people who live in their own homes and who may use mental health services for only a few weeks every few years . |
| 6 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 7 | The multiple orgasm in the woman and rapid recovery of erection after ejaculation in the man were " discovered " by popular writers a few years ago and plugged relentlessly ; yet in the woman one violent orgasm may outweigh several minor ones or the latter may not even be invariably desired , while in the man a rapid re-erection is often physically impossible ( in the more virile youngster it usually takes half to three-quarters of an hour , in the older man anything up to 24 , but there is wide variation between individuals and in differently stimulating situations ) . |
| 8 | When recounting this story to some friends a few weeks ago , one of them added : ‘ Well , even that has changed . |
| 9 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 10 | There are three main highland regions ( Figure 4.5 ) : Ishtar Terra , which is a plateau ; Aphrodite Terra , which is rougher , and bears wide linear depressions a few kilometres deep ; and Beta Regio , which could possibly be two shield volcanoes . |
| 11 | And yet somebody else might have three or four thousand down , and that 's because they 're jetting off to er foreign climes a few times a year . |
| 12 | Depending on the particular species , dodder vines range from very slender forms as fine as human hair to coarse ones a few millimetres in diameter . |
| 13 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 14 | For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team . |
| 15 | In the early days a few Members complained about the new lighting , but some adjustments were made and the Committee reported no further objections on these grounds ( although a survey of MPs attitudes following the introduction of television , which was conducted by the IBA , showed that 59% of the respondents found the lighting in the Chamber too bright , compared with 31% before the experiment began ) . |
| 16 | It is better to lose a steady two or three pounds a week than to achieve a drastic weight loss more dramatically , only to replace the lost pounds a few months later . |
| 17 | It was the fate of countless unfortunates a few seasons ago to become the terraces ' substitute for Sylvester Stallone . |
| 18 | It was the fate of countless unfortunates a few seasons ago to become the terraces ' substitute for Sylvester Stallone . |
| 19 | The last meeting was held on Oki premises a few weeks ago with only a few friends of the family in attendance . |
| 20 | In tropical seas a few fish , such as this leafy sea dragon , have evolved bizarre extensions of their bodies , transforming them to look like small floating pieces of seaweed . |
| 21 | The highlight is ‘ Nhan Tin ’ ( or missing persons ) , which gives individual inmates a few moments to appeal to relatives living in America , Canada or Australia . |
| 22 | European intermediaries are accustomed instead to fixed-price offers that are underwritten by domestic institutions a few weeks in advance . |
| 23 | He who had been with Christ when the voice came to him saying , ‘ This is my Son , whom I love ’ , denied him three times a few months later . |
| 24 | There had been severe westerly gales a few days before , and these skuas had probably been displaced off their normal migration routes by the storm . |
| 25 | At later stages a few problems did develop , but they involved only a small minority of the cases . |
| 26 | There must , he thought , be thousands of these small attendants , waiters , scullions , masons , miners , mechanics and general helpers and dogsbodies in the place and around it ; he knew something about provisioning and logistics , and the castle 's kitchens could have provided ten-course meals every few hours for an army of tens of thousands . |
| 27 | Her view reflected a time when mustard was enjoying a vogue similar to that enjoyed by flavoured vinegars a few years ago . |
| 28 | That 's why all cars a few years ago started looking the same , now they all look sort of like this . |
| 29 | I can not imagine what sort of place this gentleman imagined he was coming to in bringing the latter , but I must say it struck something of an odd note to see in Darlington Hall these two large silent men staring suspiciously in all directions a few yards from wherever the Italian gentleman happened to be . |
| 30 | Well it will , they have n't had a free election except for one they had in rather stressful circumstances a few months ago , since oh , the early er ninteen thirties , and one er wonders whether the population could be going to administer to Mr Kohl the same sort of surprise that the British population administered to Churchill in nineteen forty-five . |