Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her suitcase was still sitting on the bed , with the few clothes and belongings she had brought with her piled into it . |
| 2 | Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure . |
| 3 | During which the authorities relax even the few laws and rules that normally exist . |
| 4 | Although Walton the head coachman still drove her mother-in-law , the few times that Tamar had driven out , she had used their coach and pair from the days at Helmsley , with Goodison to drive her . |
| 5 | The WI were magnificent and provided thousands of lunches ; the Red Cross picked up the few casualties and stragglers ; and children along the route played welcome hosepipes on the passing riders . |
| 6 | He is one of the few engineers or designers still at Browns Lane to have worked with Sir William Lyons , the company 's founder and whose principles still provide much of its inspiration . |
| 7 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 8 | The few moments that Merrill spent in front of the mirror told her that she had made the right decision to wear the black dress which exposed one bare shoulder . |
| 9 | The few hill-walkers and climbers that fancy a weekend away in February certainly do n't bring enough custom to keep the hotel owners in beaten copper coffee tables and onyx standard lamps . |
| 10 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 11 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 12 | Better access to trade training courses : One of the few ways that prisoners can feel that some positive benefit has been gained from a sentence . |
| 13 | Even in the few years since Volumes I and II of the Supplement were published , numerous words and meanings in the range A-N have emerged which are therefore not to be found in the largest Oxford Dictionary . |
| 14 | She could hardly hear them because of the din , and the few words and phrases that she did catch — ‘ tolerances to five thou ’ , ‘ cross-boring ’ , ‘ CNC machine ’ , ‘ indexes round ’ — meant nothing to her . |
| 15 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 16 | Others would be borne by the few feminists and freaks who preferred girls , for the whole thing would be voluntary ; no compulsion would be needed ; PopCon 's research had been thorough . |
| 17 | This is one of the few indications that Eliot gave of the fact that , in the periods between illness when he carried on with his ordinary duties in London ( as much as anyone 's life was " ordinary " then ) , he experienced the horror of the German raids : the nightly bombings , the streets blocked with rubble , the glow in the evening as fires burned throughout the city , and the peculiarly dank smell of ruined buildings : it was this which provoked fear , precluded concentration on other things , and destroyed the will to work . |
| 18 | The few references and scraps of information we have about the very early recruits suggests that these may have included more girls of middle-class origin and certainly some from orphanages and boarding-schools — girls sometimes from middle-class families fallen on hard times . |
| 19 | During the few days before Blundy came across to Belfast , Paisley contacted a legal friend who in turn suggested to Vincent Browne of the Sunday Independent , a Dublin newspaper , that he examine the Black case . |
| 20 | In the few days that Blake had known the Doctor , he had never seen him fall asleep . |
| 21 | The first is that initial support of 60% is not high if the policy turns sour — if , for example , a war lasted more than the few days or weeks that Mr Bush seems to think it will take . |
| 22 | Instead he pushed his way into the small lounge and rapidly began sorting through the few books and papers she had left lying on the table . |
| 23 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
| 24 | Rory pushed herself out of her chair , suddenly fuelled by restless energy , and strode to the window , gazing unseeingly over the lawn for a few moments as anger seethed within her . |
| 25 | The Soul Eater crouched for a few moments and Nuadu saw that a thin silvery fluid was beginning to course along its hollow talons . |
| 26 | We then had quite a few chances before Norwich scored on a rare break with 11 mins left . |
| 27 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 28 | Booksellers also tend to prefer not to be associated exclusively with a few authorities or institutions , so that they themselves are less vulnerable to any changes in those libraries ' policies . |
| 29 | Candida set about improving Sara 's still boyish figure with a few handkerchiefs and pins . |
| 30 | you know just cos there 's a few fights and drunks down there , I thought it ca n't be that bad . |