Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] on [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | California Kirkbride and Perry South both show a pattern of low investment on a few properties . |
| 2 | He leaves it to the local man : the local man , whose tremulous reliance on a few patented drugs Hamilton observes with a speechless sneer . |
| 3 | After independence in the 1820s , an expanding plantation economy removed the forest and became dominated by coffee and bananas , with a dangerous reliance on a few exports . |
| 4 | Glen Campbell used a similar approach on a few tracks when he did the sessions for The Everlys ' wonderful Great Country Hits album of 1963 . |
| 5 | Apple is still expected to proceed with the tattered case on the few elements that were not thrown out , including the idea of using a picture of a dustbin to signify deletion of a file and the way Windows handles type fonts . |
| 6 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 7 | With perfect bad timing Inge , the au pair , had left that very morning on a few days ' holiday , and tomorrow was Nettie the housekeeper 's day off . |
| 8 | See what happened overleaf when we went north to practise our own floral wizardry on a few of those bright young Mancunians … |
| 9 | The excessive reliance on a few varieties is making the countryside biologically uniform , and could lead to the proliferation of pests and diseases , according to the report . |
| 10 | In both cases the composition and osmolarity are crucial to success and it is advisable to test any new batch on a few embryos before committing the entire culture to the treatment . |