Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The method I prefer , however , is just to make a play of looking at the coin after each few rubs on the elbow . |
2 | Nothing could make clearer the extent of God 's commitment to his world than the appearance of the Jacob stories so hard on the heels of those few stories about Isaac . |
3 | At the same time the appetite of those few readers for books in their category will not necessarily be any smaller than that of readers in a large interest category . |
4 | Scientific interests have been chosen for these few pages of examples because of the tendency in some quarters to assume that resource-based learning is a Humanities or Social Studies prerogative . |
5 | Although there is no animosity between the players , most of whom can see the benefits of joining forces , there remains a strong rivalry between those few people in either camp who have resisted amalgamation . |
6 | Screening high risk individuals by colonoscopic methods is an established procedure , but identification is crude except for those few families with hereditary colorectal cancer . |
7 | Since more than 90% of vaccines produce anti-HBs , routine post-vaccination screening is appropriate only for those few persons in whom suboptimal response is likely and whose medical management or employment duties hinge upon knowledge of their immune status . |
8 | The same experience comes from some few words of a poet or a mystic ; it is as if the emotions of the poet that he has graven in his poem strike a response and the mind is transported . |
9 | Too thinly spread to have much impact on the structure of wealth , so many were subsidiary to farming that , far from being divided into industrial and agrarian regions , England consisted of various farming regions of which certain pastoral ones had attained some degree of industrial development , in some few cases to the extent of substantially modifyng their fundamental characteristics . |
10 | She could swear , that in those few seconds before the interruption , Fen had been as aware of her as she of him . |
11 | But in those few weeks of her being pregnant , it immediately became our child . |
12 | She wondered again what her grandfather 's thoughts and feelings had been in those few days at Dudley House . |
13 | In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons . |
14 | On radio , in final few days of the campaign to elect America 's 42nd President , they still found time to talk to Stephen Kaplin , a vampire and head of the oldest vampire institute in the world . |
15 | I know it 's him , this man — what was his name ? — Luke Denner , that 's got you so worked up ; you 've not been the same since those few days in the country and that plan of his has been sitting on your desk untouched for days on end . |
16 | To those few students of Latin who express a particular interest . |
17 | And there 'll also be at the club tomorrow morning an antiquarian bookseller , a dealer in manuscripts , and an expert in drawings , to see if there 's been the hanky-panky suggested by those few notes about Fishbane . ’ |
18 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |