Example sentences of "[adv] [art] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to now I have heard only the few reluctant words in the lane . |
| 2 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 3 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 4 | But animals , to varying degrees , employ all the senses available to human beings , with perhaps a few extra ones , and often with a far greater range of sensitivity . |
| 5 | For quite long stretches of the meal these glances , with perhaps a few small frowns and smiles , are all we need to sustain communication . |
| 6 | Ancient marble columns and building blocks are scattered throughout the village , providing a doorstep here , a lintel there , or perhaps a few mooring posts . |
| 7 | How big is the search space ? perhaps a few hundred states |
| 8 | Er my final point sir is concern with perhaps a few emotional points being made to my right about the old and the infirm and the young not being able to afford houses . |
| 9 | Disappointment for Oxford , joy for Swindon and perhaps a few more converts to Rugby League . |
| 10 | Obviously a few spare fivers had not found the right pocket . |
| 11 | The advantage of this is that social secretaries deal with other people 's money , so a few wrong decisions wo n't hurt their own wallet . |
| 12 | Only a few rural areas , isolated by bad roads and non-existent railways , remained relatively untouched , but even these , by virtue of their isolation , were often gobbled up by the equally voracious demand for holiday homes and weekend cottages . |
| 13 | Orwell felt that the bulk of British public opinion was behind Chamberlain 's foreign policy of ‘ non-intervention ’ , dissension being voiced by only a few thousand left-wingers , some of whom went on to fight in Spain . |
| 14 | Mr Murphy says eligibility levels which took account of variations between households and actual , rather than assumed , figures for tax and housing , could be definitively assessed by further analysis of detailed Family Expenditure Survey statistics at the cost of only a few thousand pounds . |
| 15 | The man , pictured in yesterday 's Sunday Mirror wearing a thick black false beard , also claims he was paid only a few thousand pounds from the massive haul and is now broke . |
| 16 | The Witt Librarian John Sunderland rejects the idea of charging a fee for consulting the archive on the grounds that it would raise only a few thousand pounds . |
| 17 | There are only a few thousand maleos left , most of them in the northern parts of the island . |
| 18 | Here a great mass of molten rock , lying only a few thousand feet down in the earth 's crust , heats the rocks on the surface . |
| 19 | The centre of the Sun is at a temperature of fifteen million degrees and at a density 150 times that of water ; in Richter 's experiment , the density of the gases would be a mere fraction of water density and the spark that was supposed to ignite the thermonuclear explosion would have a temperature of only a few thousand degrees . |
| 20 | Firing visually into the dense grey packs moving across their front on the slopes opposite , only a few thousand yards off , gunners can seldom have had so superb a target . |
| 21 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 22 | One possibility therefore was that the Earth is only a few thousand years old , a second theory is that ancient helium-3 trapped inside the Earth is being ejected by volcanic eruptions and the third idea , Palmer 's , was that the Earth is indeed billions of years old and that fusion is taking place even now . |
| 23 | By contrast , the legends concerning Atlantis and the others refer to a period of time only a few thousand years ago . |
| 24 | By a quirk of nature , many large-volume rhyolite systems harbour exceptional melt Rb/Sr ratios ( in the range 100–1000 ) and consequently experience rapid changes in Sr-isotope composition as radioactive 87 Rb decays to 87 Sr. With routine measurements of Sr-isotope ratios possible to a precision of a few tens of parts per million , time differences of only a few thousand years between crystallization and eruption ages become detectable . |
| 25 | As the pressures mounted , Lenin was forced to admit that ‘ an unskilled labourer or a cook can not immediately get on with the job of state administration ’ and that only a few thousand workers throughout Russia had any experience of work in government . |
| 26 | However , analysis of genotype-phenotype association is possible in only a few frequent mutations ; the majority of the mutations are rare . |
| 27 | Danvers , Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp is cutting prices on its M-8000 bridge product family : it says it will offer a fully H.320 version of its M-8000 Multipoint Bridge starting at $45,000 for the M-8600 with three ports : the M-8600 is for customers with only a few videoconferencing systems and limited requirements for linking a large number of sites on the same call ; the H.320 standards-compliant version will ship in the autumn . |
| 28 | Despite numerous studies published on the incidence and mortality of pancreatitis in various hospitals , only a few epidemiological studies on large populations have been carried out . |
| 29 | There have been only a few empirical studies of the relationship between volume and maturity . |
| 30 | This ammonite has only a few strong ribs , with a number of small tubercles in addition . |