Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Exercise that morning he had tossed his offering the few inches from his pocket to a waiting bucket . |
| 2 | Among the few papers in his possession at the time of his death were some manuscript notes in which he was evidently attempting to develop his earlier skit , ‘ The Hopkin Syndicate ’ . |
| 3 | On the one hand , cognitive-behavioural interventions with a high turnover and short contact have yielded promising results in the few studies in which they have been attempted . |
| 4 | Instead he silently walked the few feet between them and put his arms round her . |
| 5 | He smiled and she pulled her robe tightly round her ; the bathroom that had seemed quite large had shrunk to the few feet between them . |
| 6 | But in the split second it took Angel Two to cover the few feet between them , Grant reflexively pulled the trigger of the shotgun . |
| 7 | Further on the Brook splits , and one tributary leads to the few remnants of what was Upper Ley Mill . |
| 8 | The Secretary of State is one of the few Ministers for whom I have any respect . |
| 9 | When I married , I left behind the few friends of my childhood , and made no lasting friends in London . |
| 10 | England is one of the few countries in which the legal tradition provides a test which can distinguish between the natural and the unnatural , the civilised and the barbarous . |
| 11 | But Bolivia is one of the few countries in which hyperinflation has had a happy outcome . |
| 12 | ‘ I have already packed the few things to which she is entitled , in a small box . |
| 13 | These were probably one of the few things of mine not due to be on show at the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist later this morning . |
| 14 | ‘ It is one of the few things in which I excel , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 15 | This is perhaps one of the few areas in which more research may provide genuinely useful insights for more realistic conservation programmes . |
| 16 | I was lucky to have chosen to work in theoretical physics because that was one of the few areas in which my condition would not be a serious handicap . |
| 17 | It is after all one of the few areas in our lives over which we have control . |
| 18 | One of the few luxuries within their reach is ceviche , a delicious mess of chopped raw fish with onions and lemon ; since fish feed near sewers , and are caught by people who wash ( if at all ) in sewer-water , they are perfect for spreading infection . |
| 19 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 20 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 21 | ‘ A mirror , ’ Reynard repeats , realising this is one of the few times in his life he 's been surprised . |
| 22 | Edward sat frozen , one of the few times in his life he had been genuinely frightened . |
| 23 | It was one of the few times in my life when I actually spoke the truth . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd love the few letters after her name though , would n't you now , Bunty ? ’ |
| 25 | She had the few pounds from her wages ( and thank heaven she had not thrown it back in the vicar 's face ) . |
| 26 | Stylistic analysis was one of the few tasks for which such statistical information was deemed appropriate [ Ellegard , 1962 ] . |
| 27 | Franco Zeffirelli , one of the few directors with whom Karajan collaborated , recalled : ‘ Karajan did n't even try to direct . |
| 28 | From Poolewe , a narrow road follows the coast to the headland west of Loch Ewe but is of interest only to the few residents alongside it , and visitors invariably continue on the A.832 to Gairloch , this road also having been brought up to modern standards . |
| 29 | Molly spoke with quiet confidence as though she had become in the few hours since their arrival the owner of ‘ La Felicità ’ and the organizer of life in the house . |
| 30 | If the spontaneous origin of life turned out to be a probable enough event to have occurred during the few man-decades in which chemists have done their experiments , then life should have arisen many times on Earth , and many times on planets within radio range of Earth . |