Example sentences of "[art] few [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is for these reasons that sedimentologists have been forced to work to death the few modern examples they have ( such as the poor old Bahamas Ranks ) for analogies with ancient sedimentation . |
| 2 | Councillors were told that many businesses looked upon the refuse collection service as one of the few tangible benefits they got for payment of business rates . |
| 3 | The two or three families who had come without money or slaves and who had kept themselves rigorously segregated from the few black people they found already on the island , were still shunning newcomers . |
| 4 | There Roman time they , well as you know yourself a few hundred years they hope to find er nearly half of the world |
| 5 | The slopes which produce these prized vines are generally east-facing , but in a few specific cases they are exposed in northern and southern directions . |
| 6 | I held them off with steelies and stones , and they fired back with air-guns , and for a while it was quite exciting , but then Mrs Clamp came with the weekly messages and threatened to call the police , and after calling her a few nasty names they left . |
| 7 | For a few terrible moments they saw it all , and cowered , covering their eyes . |
| 8 | The occupying Japanese forces had apparently been so terrified by the Toraja that after a few peremptory massacres they had left them to themselves . |
| 9 | There is an idea which creeps in , particularly among younger musicians , that after a few hit records they are somehow better than other people . |
| 10 | They had little hope of bringing up fresh provisions in these conditions , and if they lengthened their lines by a few more miles they would have no hope at all . |
| 11 | If there were a few Jewish citizens they went unidentified ; there was no synagogue , no kosher butcher . |
| 12 | With a few deft eye-blinks they can clear their field of vision and watch the world about them for clues of special danger . |