Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | California Kirkbride and Perry South both show a pattern of low investment on a few properties . |
2 | In both cases the composition and osmolarity are crucial to success and it is advisable to test any new batch on a few embryos before committing the entire culture to the treatment . |
3 | These included a concentration on a few sectors , a bias towards managerial and commercial interests , a limited appreciation of relevant contexts , the lack of a historical perspective , and a disciplinary imbalance including insufficient attention to economic factors . |
4 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
5 | Still , if you reinterpret ‘ focus on a few policies ’ to mean ‘ decide what you believe in ’ , the conventional wisdom becomes good advice . |
6 | Went down town on a few errands . ’ |
7 | After the feasting tonight you three will leave the Rorim with an escort on a few days ’ patrolling . |
8 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
9 | For reasons principally of economy , most county councils have preferred to concentrate development on a few villages which can then conveniently be provided with the full range of public amenities — schools , shops , libraries , sewerage facilities and so on-This saves on the enormous cost of duplicating amenities in every village and helps to direct and contain population growth to a few well-chosen sites . |
10 | Large families eke out an existence for six days a week on a few loaves and margarine . |
11 | With perfect bad timing Inge , the au pair , had left that very morning on a few days ' holiday , and tomorrow was Nettie the housekeeper 's day off . |
12 | Apple is still expected to proceed with the tattered case on the few elements that were not thrown out , including the idea of using a picture of a dustbin to signify deletion of a file and the way Windows handles type fonts . |
13 | Gordon Callander : Much too junior to have responsibilty for planning , but it ‘ came to rest on his desk ’ ; nobody more senior ever reviewed plan he set out ‘ in handwriting on a few sheets of paper ’ . |
14 | After independence in the 1820s , an expanding plantation economy removed the forest and became dominated by coffee and bananas , with a dangerous reliance on a few exports . |
15 | The excessive reliance on a few varieties is making the countryside biologically uniform , and could lead to the proliferation of pests and diseases , according to the report . |
16 | I could even put a tag on a few customers . |
17 | Since the 1978 UN Conference on Health at Alma Ata it has become a universal wisdom that it is much more effective to build a primary health care network than to spend the same money on a few prestige hospitals which could only ever be used by an urban elite . |
18 | But the CTCs have been criticised by opponents who say the Government has lavished money on a few pupils at the expense of others throughout the country . |
19 | We 've used him in the past on a few projects . |
20 | Glen Campbell used a similar approach on a few tracks when he did the sessions for The Everlys ' wonderful Great Country Hits album of 1963 . |
21 | ( The previous premier , General Azhari , had suffered a heart attack on a few weeks in office ) . |
22 | The Great Powers thus pressed their territorial control outwards to encompass for the first time virtually the whole surface of the globe , to centralize the world on a few centres of power . |
23 | The mention of Seville had only aroused a small murmur of protest in her left ventricle , and that was an improvement on a few months back when open heart surgery had seemed the only cure for her suffering . |
24 | Vincent liked to have him sitting drowsily on the floor of his studio on a few sacks while he worked . |
25 | Six kids , Dad on a few shillings a week , when he was out of work , Mam had to go out scrubbing , washing . |
26 | THE generally held belief that the marriage of Diana and Charles has broken down seems to depend on photographs of the couple on the few occasions on which they appear together in public . |
27 | These plants can exceed the size of some national markets , leading producers to concentrate their production on a few sites and export to small markets : some chemical plants in Brazil or Mexico serve other parts of the Latin American market . |
28 | It is true that he knew the Prime Ministers of the later 1940s and early 1950s , Attlee and Churchill , personally , and he was not averse to breaking protocol by raising policy matters with them behind the back of their Minister of Fuel and Power on a few occasions . |
29 | The fish jumped out of the tank on a few occasions , landing on the carpet , but was always returned to the tank in time . |