Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business as usual The election led to a few significant changes in Northern Ireland , but mostly it 's more of the same , says Robin Wilson |
| 2 | An intervention with a low probability of harm given to millions can do more damage than one with a high probability of harm given to a few |
| 3 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 4 | With support for the 88000 RISC as a system architecture dwindling to a few hardy companies , a core 88open unit will continue to service their requirements , testing and branding system software and applications . |
| 5 | With support for the 88000 as a system architecture dwindling to a few hardy companies , a core 88open unit will continue to service their requirements , testing and branding system software and applications . |
| 6 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |
| 7 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
| 8 | At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond . |
| 9 | Here , clinging like autumn leaves to a few favoured trees , some 200m butterflies sleep through the winter . |
| 10 | I must confess to a profound sense of foreboding upon making this observation which de-generated into abject horror upon hearing the said track and realising that Oldfield 's contribution amounted to a few bars sampled from ‘ Tubular Bells ’ ! |
| 11 | All are strongly seasonal , with activity limited to a few days or weeks in summer . |
| 12 | Those scavengers living their entire lives in those caverns underneath Kefalov were merely an extreme example of segmented vision — their whole cosmos reduced to a few cubic kilometres of debris . |
| 13 | Further on the Brook splits , and one tributary leads to the few remnants of what was Upper Ley Mill . |