Example sentences of "[conj] [art] few [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an effore to pick a premium FFL squad , could someone send me the current ( or a few weeks old league table that was published recently ) as I seem to have got rid of it , and todays paper does n't have one in |
| 2 | In practice , the vast majority of reported offences of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl of 16 involve young men of a similar age or a few years older , and the general trend is to administer a formal caution to such persons rather than to prosecute them . |
| 3 | He is drunk , although a few stages short of rat-arsed . |
| 4 | Newly qualified nurses are expected to receive an orientation and induction programme appropriate to their appointments , followed by a consolidation period for a minimum period of three months , when it is recommended that a few hours each week be set aside for learning periods either with other newly qualified staff or as self-directed learning . |
| 5 | It is perhaps surprising , with Healings ' huge mill in nearby Tewkesbury , that a few mills such as Northway and particularly Aston , managed to function for as long as they did . |
| 6 | Whereas touristy me — town-bred and with no more knowledge of nags than a few donkey-rides sixty years ago — I rode high and proud on Suzy , a two-year-old Arab who was full of wind and nervous at moving so slowly . |
| 7 | I was obsessed by new clothes to the extent that I 'd lost interest in something if it was more than a few hours old . |
| 8 | It appears never to have remained sufficiently constant to enable benches more than a few kilometres wide to form , at least since the beginning of the Pleistocene period . |
| 9 | It may be possible to reconcile the seismic evidence with fractured rock beneath the lava , which is no more than a few kilometres thick , particularly if the first few sheets that flowed were heavily fractured and were then covered by the sheets we see today . |
| 10 | This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone , but is no more than a few metres thick at most . |
| 11 | Luckily they were usually no more than a few feet deep . |
| 12 | Some breeders I rang did n't have any left , others did n't have any chicks of the age I wanted ( and after Barny , I was very wary of buying anything more than a few weeks old ) , and others lived in the Highlands of Scotland or somewhere equally inaccessible to me . |
| 13 | Those marks are no more than a few weeks old , that 's certain , but within that time no one knows when they were made . |
| 14 | Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old . |
| 15 | ‘ When we sent you away , Fergus , you were a babe , no more than a few days old . ’ |
| 16 | If it 's more than a few years old . |
| 17 | Hazel stamped , and a few moments later Dandelion was beside him in the bracken . |
| 18 | Most of these are now desolate except for the fifteenth century Church of the Pantanassa , still a convent , and a few others such as the fourteenth century Church of Evangelistria , S. Sophia , c. 1350 , and the fourteenth century Church of Peribleptos . |
| 19 | There are a large number of rare metabolic errors which are purely hereditary and account , despite their large number , for only a small percentage of total illness , and a few conditions such as fatal poisonings which are purely environmental , but in the great majority of conditions both inherited and environmental factors are involved . |
| 20 | He said he mostly cruised now — although he had done several Fastnets and a few Ton-Cups some years ago . |
| 21 | On paper it appears the light blues are inches shorter … and a few months older … but what about on the water ? |
| 22 | Nevertheless , the rug market can be extremely volatile , and a few months either way can make a significant difference to prices . |
| 23 | Sadly , as television interviews all too clearly show , most footballers from other teams are monosyllabic in speech and a few yards short of a goal in the brain department . |
| 24 | Because my friend 's daughter whom I met er she is one year and a few days older than you two huh ? |
| 25 | All my womenfolk are at least six inches taller and a few sizes bigger than you . ’ |
| 26 | Somewhere there would be a tutor waiting to see him — some easy-going , amiable man , not old , but a few years older than himself , with whom he could drink sherry on slightly deferential terms , and to whom he could apply for permission to hold parties , keep a car , and ride to hounds . |
| 27 | ’ Then just think of it , ’ she said with a superior smile , ’ as a few days extra for you to go on pulping your brain with galacvid garbage . ’ |
| 28 | However , complete accuracy is not important , as a few years either way make little difference to its value or collectability ; placing it in the right quarter of the appropriate century will nearly always suffice . |
| 29 | Turning , he saw a barn owl , flying parallel to him , though a few feet higher . |