Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few weeks newspapers lifted their ban on match reports , and while the war was waged on the front page , the struggle for League points gathered pace on the back . |
| 2 | Staring is one of the few things frogs are good at . |
| 3 | From the City came English Trust 's Susanna Todd , one of the few women directors of a merchant bank . |
| 4 | For a few years chimpanzees raised in human households learn as well as human infants of the same age , but they soon reach the limit of their ability and are rapidly overtaken by human youngsters . |
| 5 | Temporarily for a few years trains could use that Thameslink line . |
| 6 | Pour into glasses , top each one with a whole fresh strawberry and serve with a few amaretti biscuits . |
| 7 | With a few exceptions labourers and servants in Rutland were men whose assessments were below £2 , which in turn were virtually identical with subsidy assessments based on wages . |
| 8 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 9 | Within a few years clubs appeared all over the country . |
| 10 | Within a few years Raffles had realised his dream . |
| 11 | Heights do not usually exceed 12 metres but in a few instances heights of more than 20 metres have been involved . |
| 12 | But in a few places conditions remain unaltered and they suit the original design to perfection . |
| 13 | The Churchill Government inherited a highly efficient system of Cabinet and official committees , but with in a few months officials were complaining that the neat system consolidated by Clement Attlee was in disarray . |
| 14 | In a few years things may change , I ca n't promise that , but they may . |
| 15 | Police intervention provoked allegations of brutality , but media coverage focused on the few police injuries , underemphasised the extent of police aggression and exaggerated the women 's part in the violence . |