Example sentences of "[noun sg] but [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | His parents had neglected this aspect of his upbringing , having largely abandoned their religion but for a few outer forms before he was born . |
2 | Below , a tightly-packed steel chamber , dark but for a few naked bulbs , was filled with squat metal ten-gallon drums . |
3 | The LP is produced by Jessica Corcoran in tandem with the band and coincides with the tail end of their current tour , a sell-out but for a few tickets for their London show at The Kilburn National on April 4 . |
4 | A small drapers , ‘ Palmers ’ , was next door but after a few years this became a Baby Wear shop . |
5 | On average they rise some 2 km above the surrounding ocean floor but in a few localities , notably at Iceland , they reach above sea level . |
6 | They had seldom before entered Applecross café but on the few occasions before had been given , purely accidentally of course , some ‘ fat in five seconds ’ . |
7 | At first , her face burned and she was often defeated in her purpose but within a few weeks she was indistinguishable from the seasoned bargainers . |
8 | The outer-arc ridge is usually a submarine feature but in a few cases , such as Barbados in the West Indies and Middleton Island in the Aleutian Arc in Alaska , parts of it are exposed above sea level . |