Example sentences of "[adj] for the [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had established the fact that the real Delia Forbes was in Australia and that for the past few weeks someone else had been using her name and address ; because of her desperate desire to help Barney she had leapt to conclusions which could be hopelessly wide of the mark . |
| 2 | Ideas for those knitters , but also some for the faithful few who keep on knitting . |
| 3 | In fact she had been feeling tired and queasy for the past few days ; and that night , when the leading man laid her on the sofa , suddenly turned her head and , without letting the audience see , vomited quietly down the sofa back . |
| 4 | She was worried about her husband ; it had been obvious for the past few days that something was preying on his mind . |
| 5 | German genre subjects have been flat for the past few seasons , so it was a pleasant surprise that Franz von Defregger 's ‘ Tyrolean zither player ’ ( est. $70–90,00 ) sold for $105,000 ( £70,000 ) . |
| 6 | A new precision was certainly present and this was important for the dedicated few . |
| 7 | The Annual Report for 1904–5 of the STA suggests that trade had been exceptionally busy for the previous few years . |
| 8 | But theorists have already been busy for the past few years working on schemes that incorporate a third force , the strong nuclear force , with electroweak theory . |
| 9 | The music has n't changed ; it 's been the same for the past few millennia . |