Example sentences of "[conj] for [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Screening high risk individuals by colonoscopic methods is an established procedure , but identification is crude except for those few families with hereditary colorectal cancer . |
| 2 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |
| 3 | And for those few women who parrot their words . |
| 4 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 5 | From 1926 to 1930 she shared her ideas about colour with the painter Christopher Wood and for those few years their work looked similar . |