Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.

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1 The pattern of extended family living persists with the few Bangladeshis who have grown up in Cardiff or elsewhere in Britain .
2 If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally .
3 Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days .
4 Afterwards Martha provided ham and a salad with hard-boiled eggs like gleaming bald heads sticking out from limp lettuce leaves for the few people who turned up .
5 The second session begins with a few limbering-up exercises and then goes immediately to the selection .
6 If untreated , recovery occurs after a few weeks , but discharging abscesses may remain in the groin .
7 These sources include articles and official statements published in ACCOUNTANCY , course and conference notes from the few delegates that still attend external training , and letters and reports already produced within the firm as part of normal client service work .
8 If the hon. Gentleman waits for a few days , he may be made aware of developments emanating from a source not far from me now which may interest him and which may deal with that point .
9 Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily .
10 Buus does in a few cases revert to earlier material or in one instance , as we have seen , achieve cohesion at the expense of monotony by basing a whole piece on a single idea .
11 They said Labour had squandered a golden opportunity to improve part of the town centre which could be hard hit when the new Cornmill Centre opens in a few months ' time .
12 A returning female alights within a few feet of where she last left her baby .
13 Here , clinging like autumn leaves to a few favoured trees , some 200m butterflies sleep through the winter .
14 A pro knows within a few yards how far he can hit the ball with each club — unlike the club golfer who has a wide variation from day to day , and even from hole to hole .
15 His deputy , a Scot , later received a circular from the Food and Dairy Products Committee which extended all expiry dates by a few weeks .
16 Gamble argues that the adversary politics thesis over-generalises from a few instances to the whole of economic policy .
17 The number of neurones in a brain varies from a few hundred in simple invertebrates up to approximately 10 11 in man .
18 Its central nervous system consists of a few ganglia , no more than about 20,000 neurons in all .
19 I hope that a message can go out that there is a new resolve in the west and that we are determined to ensure that the killing , the destruction and the brutality stop , and that , as a new year dawns in a few days ' time , it dawns with a new sense of hope for the battered , beleaguered people of Croatia .
20 The algorithm begins with a few small clusters , and it enlarges them and creates new clusters as it is presented with more data .
21 Further on the Brook splits , and one tributary leads to the few remnants of what was Upper Ley Mill .
22 No signed or documented work by her is known and what can be assembled as an oeuvre emerges from the few surviving miniatures between 1545 and 1575 .
23 A secondary stage follows after a few more months and manifests itself by a rash on the face and body .
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