Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , the young store cattle were sold after a few months to farmers on the UK mainland but recently the EEC has guaranteed high prices for beef and so many farmers have fattened their calves on their own farms . |
| 2 | The regiment 's first official title after the 1881 merger was The Halifax Regiment ( Duke of Wellington 's ) but this was changed after a few weeks to The Duke of Wellington 's ( West Riding Regiment ) and again in 1920 to The Duke of Wellington 's Regiment ( West Riding ) . |
| 3 | He walks to the crease with a swagger , totally confident , undoubtedly one of the few batsmen to whom the word ‘ Unforgettable ’ could be applied without risk of hyperbole . |
| 4 | The size of the taps throughout the house is one of the few exceptions to scale , as an exact one twelfth in the plumbing system would have been too small for water to run through the pipes . |
| 5 | One of the few exceptions to this was Stonehenge , which always seems to have been regarded as extremely old and to have excited theories about how the lintels were raised : one early theory was that the magician Merlin placed the stones . |
| 6 | It was one of the few references to the former prime minister 's gender that I heard during the whole week of leadership crise . |
| 7 | One of the few clues to Joan Main 's whereabouts appeared to be a birthday card she 's sent to her mother from Newport . |
| 8 | The tucuxi is one of the few dolphins to be found in both fresh and salt waters . |
| 9 | Gloucester 's strength is also reflected in the choice of knights of the shire for the county of Cornwall , one of the few elections to the planned parliament of Edward V for which returns survive . |
| 10 | Gloucester 's strength is also reflected in the choice of knights of the shire for the county of Cornwall , one of the few elections to the planned parliament of Edward V for which returns survive . |
| 11 | Baynton managed Catherine 's retinue after her arrest and in 1543 was one of the few witnesses to the king 's sixth marriage . |
| 12 | Clearly there are other choices for the parameters , but for all realistic values the critical concentrations will be small , and the length scale of the individual layers will be a small fraction of the chamber depth in the range of a few centimetres to several metres . |
| 13 | In this context the loss of a few passengers to the Channel Tunnel is a relatively minor issue . |
| 14 | Mr Osenat nevertheless put the paintings up for sale at their estimate , FFr2.5 million and sold them in the space of a few seconds to the town 's Mayor ( who is also , ironically , Chairman of the Board of the Hospital ) , who then donated them to the museum on behalf of the town . |
| 15 | I append the headings of a few subjects to which I have given some attention , and which I could write a readable article upon . |
| 16 | A royal smashed past a few feet to my left , then another took a dive down by sheltering bank , his hooves carving into the ground just a yard from my toes and spraying my legs with black peat . |
| 17 | They 've they 've asked for a few changes to their older system , and this new one will give them all that they want , plus a load that they do n't want . |
| 18 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 19 | ‘ Never , in my life , ’ he murmured distractedly , leaving her mouth for a few seconds to hungrily kiss her cheekbone , her temple , to lightly nip the lobe of her ear , ‘ have I met a woman so obstinate , so pigheaded … ’ |
| 20 | If she needs nursing care , arrangements can sometimes be made for her to be admitted for a few weeks to the local hospital on medical recommendation . |
| 21 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 22 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 23 | If you choose to , you can blow this whole thing sky-high , just with a few words to the wrong people . ’ |
| 24 | Pemell 's publications were all in the vernacular , but showed some knowledge of Latin , and were derived from classical and contemporary learned authors , with a few references to his own experience . |
| 25 | Three are British , and all the rest American ( including a few immigrants to the US ) . |
| 26 | Entrants then work in a variety of units and can expect promotion within a few years to lance-corporal and corporal . |
| 27 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 28 | Bottlenose dolphins have a heart rate of 80–90 beats per minute just after ‘ blowing ’ , slowing within a few seconds to 33–45 beats per minute and remaining at that rate until the next blow . |
| 29 | The smooth-phrased B.B.C. announcer , the amusing don , the self-confident politician , the jargon-perfect critic , the editor of the literary magazine — all are reducible within a few months to a bewildered defensive creature with hollow cheeks and desperate eyes whose only cares will be to see that he gets his fair share of the potato ration , that nobody steals his bed boards , and that he exchanges his cigarette ends for food or vice versa at the best possible price . |
| 30 | 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 . |