Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electronic cameras captured the action , and powerful transmitters beamed the signals directly to the few homes in Britain equipped with television receivers . |
| 2 | The British Museum was still one unit , containing both natural history and works of art , and there were posts there for a few naturalists . |
| 3 | The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies . |
| 4 | Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them . |
| 5 | As a result you can end up with a file bordering on the megabytes instead of a few tens of kilobytes . |
| 6 | Bought in an English street market thirty years ago for a few shillings , a hitherto unidentified still-life by Luis Melendez ( 1716–1780 ) was sold at Bonhams on 10 December for £850,000 ( $1.36 million ) . |
| 7 | It seemed , as her mother would have said , ‘ a crime ’ to waste a beautiful afternoon in a stuffy cinema , but she might be able to shed her troubles there for a few hours . |
| 8 | Shetland has no biting insects apart from a few midges in late summer , and I had n't realised just how much of a problem these Arctic mosquitoes could be . |
| 9 | The clothes in the boutiques were as superb as always , and by eleven-thirty she had managed to accumulate an assortment of bags which were beginning to feel as though they weighed several tons instead of a few pounds . |
| 10 | On this leg of the patrol it was mostly long steams southward with a few breaks for routine rummage , and we saw little in the way of oil related activity . |
| 11 | But during the last decade the challenge of achieving expanding opportunities for the many has been ignored — instead , the priority has been to bring benefits only to the few . |
| 12 | Such meetings will also have a social function , bringing agents together for a few days to exchange ideas , discuss common problems and be made to feel part of the company . |
| 13 | However we agreed to visit Cedars together in a few days ' time . |
| 14 | Some of our own johnnies in the top jobs instead of a few Englishmen . |