Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 2 | When you 've been through this a few times you 'll |
| 3 | The hillsides would have been covered like this a few centuries ago — genuine deer forests . |
| 4 | She was threatened with that a few days later when she was sweeping the back stairs and her rear view was too much of a temptation for the young footman . |
| 5 | I I I got a little bit involved in that a few years ago , when I was working on it , having had some scepticism before-hand . |
| 6 | Add to this a few arguments related to the preservation of choice , local market knowledge , and participation in technology transfer , and you have the case for not allowing air transport power to be concentrated in too few hands . |
| 7 | But Machiavelli , who one gathers is a favourite source of the author , gave us the lowdown on this a few centuries ago . |
| 8 | Chemical shifts are generally of a few eV or less , and overlap of lines due to different elements is unlikely , as each element contributes at most a few lines in the range 50–1200 eV , while the instrumental linewidth is of the order of 2 eV . |
| 9 | With the stimulus parameters usually employed to produce LTP , the duration of PTP is at most a few minutes . |
| 10 | Furthermore the designers are mainly concerned with lexical access , rather than speech recognition as a whole and the ‘ utterances ’ are at most a few words long . |
| 11 | The police chief Tuma was taken to court by one judge for breaking an October 1989 decree to remove the miners , only to be let off by another a few weeks later . |