Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] for a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |
| 2 | Their Korean hosts were said to be upset at the way they barely acknowledged each other in public except for a few surly and petulant exchanges . |
| 3 | However , the really important area of application is to problems which would be linear but for a few ( separable ) nonlinear terms and here it can be very effective . |
| 4 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 5 | He had blue eyes and his head was bare except for a few short grey hairs . |
| 6 | Her earlier fears about what terrors lay in store returned , all the more powerful because for a few minutes she had forgotten them . |
| 7 | The scales on the disk extend just into the dorsal edge of the disk , the ventral interradial areas are naked except for a few scales next to the genital slit . |
| 8 | Injuries in war and disasters provide numerous anecdotes of the anaesthetic effects of shock ; a doctor in the aftermath of London 's Clapham rail crash of 1988 reported having treated several victims lying or sitting by the track in a state of bewilderment and oblivious of serious wounds ; in one case an ankle was completely severed other than for a few shreds of flesh . |