Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , what may look like a good deal now , as the UK emerges from its adjustment period of higher interest rates and recession , could look rather different in a few years ' time . |
| 2 | Until such a time peasants in a country like France were really only interested in a few restricted matters like land , taxes , and the threat of military service . |
| 3 | Leek and potato soup ( £1.55 ) came with excellent bread but would have been less bland with a few spices thrown around ; conversely a fresh off the bone chicken curry ( £3.50 ) could have been enhanced by some fruit . |
| 4 | It is a social ritual , somewhat akin to a few drinks after work . |
| 5 | I was diplomatically ill for a few days and then I returned to my normal work . |
| 6 | At present echo planar imaging is only available in a few research centres worldwide . |
| 7 | The horizon was a dark terracotta colour , the top of the dying sun just visible for a few seconds before it dropped out of sight and the sky doused the remaining light like a heavy black blanket . |
| 8 | Her XR3i , I calculated , would do me just fine for a few days . |
| 9 | The launching of the United Nations Decade for Women began in Britain with the passing of Equal Pay and Anti-Sex Discrimination legislation , and so long as women 's demands were not seen as too extreme , and were easily satisfied by a few minor modifications in the administration of sexual injustice , then the liberal socialist establishment seemed happy to make the appropriate gestures . |
| 10 | They were usually listless for a few days before they collapsed , breathing with evident difficulty and , in a few cases , discharging a white frothy liquid from their nostrils . |
| 11 | The french windows were still open by a few inches . |
| 12 | This particular defence was optional in the EC Product Liability Directive but has been adopted in the United Kingdom ; it seems sensible because standards of safety change over time and what might seem perfectly acceptable now might be considered grossly unsafe in a few years time . |
| 13 | In 1866 Reichenberg ( Liberec ) , the Bohemian textile centre , still produced half its total output on the looms of artisan weavers , admittedly for the most part now dependent on a few large factories . |
| 14 | I was really ill for a few weeks . |
| 15 | At 2200–2400/£1 exchange rates have been fairly steady for a few years . |
| 16 | The necessary trade-off between resolution and penetration limits the maximum depth presently attainable to a few millimetres . |
| 17 | This group , which included what are known as rural or quasi-samurai , was particularly numerous in a few important domains , such as Satsuma and Chóshú . |
| 18 | ‘ Sunderland have become increasingly desperate in a few departments . |
| 19 | Pigs are particularly rare at a few settlements . |
| 20 | His body was not as solid and stable as it should be and he was frequently off-line by a few degrees . |
| 21 | The largest falcon of the region , resembling a large stout Peregrine ( p. 93 ) in outline , though with slightly blunter wings with broader bases , and longer tail , but extremely variable in plumage , from almost white with a few dark flecks to almost completely dark grey ; most frequent form is like rather pale Peregrine , but lacking the dark moustachial streak . |
| 22 | Digital Equipment Corp now believes COSE really wants it to join , something it was n't quite sure about a few weeks ago . |
| 23 | Digital Equipment Corp now believes that the Common Open Software Environment crowd really want it to join them , something that it was not quite sure about a few weeks ago . |
| 24 | It was a market town , and once a week it was quite busy for a few hours . |
| 25 | That evening revealed a petulance Hugh Paddick had not known before , but which would become quite familiar to the few Williams intimates . |
| 26 | So many people admire his work that he can be quite careless of the few who do n't . |
| 27 | It has been shown that measuring these antibodies to establish the diagnosis of coeliac disease is helpful but not completely reliable as a few cases would be missed . |
| 28 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
| 29 | She lay there in the faint moonlit darkness , her face wet from crying , her pulse-rate frantic , completely disorientated for a few seconds . |
| 30 | Wartime service spanned almost the entire Pacific conflict , making it one of the most historically significant of the few remaining Australian Dakotas , the other preserved examples appearing to have had very pedestrian careers in comparison while ‘ SBO was used exclusively for military frontline transport operations , making it a veteran par excellence . |