Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun] [be] " in BNC.

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1 staining first appears in r3 ( a ) and after a few hours is joined by staining in r5 ( b ) .
2 These lovely plants may take time to form large flowering clumps but after a few years are a sight to behold and are worth every bit of effort you expend .
3 Carl moved into agency at NEMS in the late 1970s and after a few years was instrumental in the formation of the PAN agency .
4 I was lucky to get a job at Highgate , and after a few years was able tor educe my teaching to three days a week .
5 It grew rapidly , and after a few seconds was the tiny bright shape of a man .
6 One of the few developments was the piloting in 1983 of the Royal Society of Arts certificate in the teaching of community languages which was later developed into a diploma .
7 yeah he 's one of the few doctor 's that 's not seemingly not all for what he can get , he seems to be a genuine caring chap I mean a lot of doctor 's they burn the candles at both ends
8 One of the few exceptions is Marks & Spencer .
9 One of the few exceptions is a small factory , mainly employing women , which produces electronic components .
10 One of the few exceptions is the beaver .
11 One of the few exceptions was a full-page abstract sketch in felt tip ; it was labelled ‘ Cyril 's Mind ( Rear View ) ’ .
12 On the whole they are not , but the seasonal productivity of a few areas is very high , and subpolar seas include some of the richest patches of ocean known anywhere in the world .
13 Willows of a few species are abundant along some of the rills , but seldom attain a height of three feet .
14 Yet the caterpillars of a few species are well protected from predators ; they are highly distasteful , possessing a coat of irritant hairs , while others bear spines and venom .
15 The number of tree species with high proportions of ‘ barked ’ trees is low , but bark of a few species is pulled off in strips up to 10m long as seen in Bombax brevicuspe ( Bombacaceae ) and Lannea welwitschii ( Anacardiaceae ) .
16 These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered .
17 So an early mark-down of a few pence was soon recouped , and by the close the FTSE index had reversed the initial fall of over nearly eight points as New York showed signs of a more stable performance .
18 It is probably significant that our own body size of a few feet is roughly in the middle of the range of sizes we can imagine .
19 Certainly the popular press fuelled doubt , focusing as it did upon particular schools which were in temporary disarray , and the failure of a few teachers was applied indiscriminately to the whole workforce .
20 And our own lifetime of a few decades is roughly in the middle of the range of times we can imagine .
21 Optimization of a few parameters is not what people think of , when they speak of learning .
22 A family who are believed to have raided five jewellers ' shops in the space of a few weeks are being hunted by police .
23 Work-shadowing , whereby a student follows a business person during her normal work routines over a period of a few weeks is becoming increasingly commonplace in the UK .
24 What they 've done in a matter of a few weeks is put together a data bank of information that 's colossal , and they 're dealing with an enormous amount of , of distress and problems .
25 The remains of a few victims were taken to a makeshift mortuary in a hangar at Schiphol .
26 The only way to test these predictions in the space of a few years is to observe a sufficient number of protons and see if a few decay .
27 There was nearly a chance when he got locked in a lift at the Horseguards Hotel the other day , but the prospect of being out of the front line for a few hours was more than he could bear .
28 You think going out and killing oneself for a few shillings is normal to a Masai ?
29 After coming to a stop with the glider facing into wind , holding the tail down is the worst possible thing , and even leaving the nose unattended for a few moments is dangerous .
30 Now Somerset is a long way away , but the first stopping place that they can find where they will be left undisturbed for a few days is in the Vale , and very shortly the Vale will be designated , so they 'll have to travel even further into west Oxford , which is going to be , if we 're not careful , the only undesignated district in the whole of the south of England , and I would n't want to be a resident of west Oxford in these circumstances .
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