Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of June , Sir Geoffrey made his own last vain attempt to reassure Hong Kong , flying in briefly for one of the most uncomfortable few days of his long diplomatic career . |
| 2 | One method is for the sequence field of the micro-instruction to specify all but the least significant few bits of the next micro-instruction address . |
| 3 | Some computers allow several different test functions to be connected as each of the least significant few bits of the next micro-instruction address , allowing 4-way , 8-way , or even higher order conditional jumps . |
| 4 | But she was n't away till the third or the fourth , if you could get it within the very first few days |
| 5 | ‘ I 've had a terribly peaceful few weeks . ’ |
| 6 | It 's been a very trying few days . |
| 7 | ‘ In fact , Ursula and I accepted his invitation to go over to Macau with him and Cavell Fielding on Tuesday evening for dinner and a spot of gambling in one of the casinos , and a very enjoyable few hours they were too . ’ |
| 8 | The whole essence of Conservative Party that 's put before the Environment Committee today and I remind us that it was only in a very short few months ago that this Council might be at cuts of up to twenty million pounds in order that low in the very country . |
| 9 | Judge Angus Stroyan QC said : ‘ This was no doubt an extremely unpleasant few seconds for the girl but really no more than a drunken antic . |
| 10 | With just four minutes remaining , though , the stalest of stalemates was broken by Chelsea captain Andy Townsend , who rounded off an immensely difficult few days for Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson . |