Example sentences of "[art] few [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has achieved his success through his own talent , the support of his parents , and the skill and guidance of David Lloyd , the fiercely independent former British Davis Cup player whose mushrooming tennis centres have been one of the few success stories in British tennis in the last decade . |
| 2 | Equally coveted were a magnificent pair of Louis XVI ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry and Japanese lacquer commodes by Etienne Levasseur which had the added distinction of being beautiful , practical and with an eighteenth-century provenance ( one of the few Patiño pieces with that distinction ) , made for the great connoisseur Pierre Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset . |
| 3 | It was said that the few cabin passengers on board sailed under very different conditions . |
| 4 | Historical comparisons between the results of the few surveillance studies of locally confined disease with results of treatment studies are not conclusive . |
| 5 | The viaduct carrying the Mallaig section of the West Highland Railway round the head of Loch Shiel is one of the few railway viaducts to be built of concrete . |
| 6 | Corporate finance specialists see insurance as one of the few growth areas in Europe in the short and medium term . |
| 7 | A similar portfolio had enabled another ‘ unemployable ’ student to obtain freelance work as one of the few fashion models in a wheelchair . |
| 8 | TEENAGE vandals are targeting one of the few leisure facilities in north Belfast . |
| 9 | The Child Support Agency is probably one of the few agency organizations within this country that actually |
| 10 | She took his details , cleaned his face up and put a few butterfly plasters over the cut . |
| 11 | Budgetary concerns and the drive for self-sufficiency ( UX No 374 ) , are forcing OSF to retract back to a few core technologies like DCE , DME and Motif , and to hold off on any further technology requests . |
| 12 | Arbuckle directed a few comedy shorts as William Goodrich , was booed when he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces , and began to drink heavily . |
| 13 | It is worth discussing your child 's needs in detail and having a few rehearsal sessions before committing yourself to a job . |
| 14 | We feel that anthropologists are uniquely positioned to introduce a few question marks into the fundamental assumption of the discourse , and it is our hope that this book will provide some such . |
| 15 | She and Lee were never close colleagues but as WEA tutor-organiser she continued to play a key role in attracting students to her short courses and from these developed a few Tutorial Classes for which Lee was the tutor . |
| 16 | Earlier manmetric studies of the UOS in children used perfused sidehole pull through methods with sedation , an approach that only gives a few sample values of UOS pressure and these are influenced by the effects of sedation and stress . |
| 17 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 18 | Passers- by might expect a few satin teddies in the window . |
| 19 | Some cattle are reared on permanent pasture on the lower slopes and a few fodder crops of grass , oats and potatoes are grown in the lower valleys . |
| 20 | I took down a few reference numbers from a noticeboard headed ‘ Cleaning ’ and then waited for my turn . |
| 21 | I had er put a promotion together with a few travel agents in Scotland where I gave out holiday spending money . |
| 22 | But at the moment only a few treatment plants in Britain have the equipment to do this . |
| 23 | Not unless I get a few phone calls from been here today . |
| 24 | They integrated with the Picts , the ‘ painted men ’ , finally absorbing them and their culture completely , leaving behind only robbed brochs , broken hill-forts and a few stone carvings as evidence of the Picts ' passing . |
| 25 | There are a few laughter lines around the eyes but the boyish grin is the same and at 57 , he looks 10 years younger . |
| 26 | A few mono copies of the album with the deleted cuts did make it out of the factory but no stereo version was believed to have been pressed until early this year , when the only known copy was advertised for auction by Strider Records of New York . |
| 27 | There would be a new winter dress and a new summer one each year , plus a few cotton dresses for hot weather . |
| 28 | But seriously I think some people overreacted to a few throwaway lines in the mag — you 'd see far worse in many ‘ family newspapers ’ . |
| 29 | Other valley fields have a few dairy cows on grass . |
| 30 | Among the intelligentsia , hardly a voice was raised in its defence , with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism . |