Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 2 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 3 | The simple go/no-go transistor tester described in April 's EE seems to have been popular with quite a few of our readers and several of you have written with specific queries concerning the circuit used . |
| 4 | It is significant , however , that the feedback involved is fairly simple , and dependent on only a few physical parameters , so that the computations concerned are relatively inflexible . |
| 5 | Cos , probably you do n't realize that , even a cigarette light , if you drew a cigarette , like that , and er and made it glow , it 's visible for quite a few hundred yards in the darkness . |
| 6 | The net result of a system which mixed young and old , debtors and criminals , men and women , first offenders and old lags indiscriminately was , inevitably , that prisoners were exploited , brutalized and deprived of even the few rights that the law allowed them . |
| 7 | Oscars can be quite aggressive , I have seen them jaw-lock with quite a few other species of fish , as well as other Oscars . |
| 8 | Sometimes , a tree may be all female , at other times , mostly male with just a few branches carrying fruits from female flowers , and at other times again , the flowers will have both male and female organs , as is the case in most other flowering plants . |
| 9 | Had its fabric endured with its frescoes undamaged for just a few centuries longer , it might well have been ranked as one of the world 's Seven Wonders . |
| 10 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 11 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 12 | This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year . |
| 13 | There was no rain overnight so that the ground er is good with just a few soft places . |
| 14 | Lochryan shore sport poor with only a few dogfish from Old House Point and Lefnol . |
| 15 | While our friends have made their new houses look good in just a few hours with a lick of paint , we 've had to put up new ceilings , repair skirting boards and hack off layers of old tiles . |
| 16 | With the raffle short of a grand by just a few quid , the cry for the remainder went up . |
| 17 | It is interesting that the anion-cation charge transfer is so marked in and and that they are stable in only a few inorganic solvents — eg liquid . |
| 18 | However , analysis of genotype-phenotype association is possible in only a few frequent mutations ; the majority of the mutations are rare . |
| 19 | The tonal range is extensive from just a few different grades . |
| 20 | The tonal range is extensive from just a few different grades . |
| 21 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 22 | Detailed experimental analyses of wing-movements during flight are available for only a few species and probably differ in different insects ( Weis-Fogh , 1956a , 1956b ; Jensen , 1956 ; Jensen and Weis-Fogh , 1962 ; Nachtigall , 1966 ; Neville , 1960 ; Vogel , 1966–67 ) . |
| 23 | Even in England there were occasional signs that the usefulness of having available at least a few men with a knowledge of oriental languages was understood . |
| 24 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |
| 25 | Despite having been in the open for only a few seconds , they had been soaked . |
| 26 | One of man 's great intellectual adventures — the exploration and understanding of his own nervous system — is progressing at a rate undreamed of only a few decades ago . |
| 27 | Le Mesnil-sur-Oger , Oger and Verzy were long overdue this honour and Chouilly and Oiry , both very fine premiers crus , are far superior to quite a few traditionally established grand cru villages . |
| 28 | Leave luggage unattended for even a few seconds |
| 29 | In general symptoms are mild and admission to hospital is necessary in only a few cases . |
| 30 | Secondly , one might accept the view that efficiency should not be ignored in analysing the firm , without believing that monopoly issues are relevant in only a few situations . |