Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the Orcs looted and pillaged through Ostermark , feasting upon the few beasts that the people had carefully nurtured through the winter and driving the impoverished population westwards through the snow . |
| 2 | Um and erm that might be that 's one of th some of the few things that the library 's got but erm er anyway . |
| 3 | Well , ’ I sighed , looking up to the night sky , where the clouds were starting to blot out the few stars that the city lights did not obscure . |
| 4 | It was one of the few times that the pulp glossy pop press produced journalism worth reading . |
| 5 | The net result of a system which mixed young and old , debtors and criminals , men and women , first offenders and old lags indiscriminately was , inevitably , that prisoners were exploited , brutalized and deprived of even the few rights that the law allowed them . |
| 6 | The bulk of the chicks ' diet consists of leaf-eating caterpillars from oak trees , particularly those of the green oak tortrix , and these are at their best in the few weeks after the leaf buds come out . |
| 7 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 8 | The few songs that The Wedding Present released in 1988 made their way into the various end of year charts . |
| 9 | They have somehow , in the few days since the rains arrived , become biblically sleek . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 11 | Neil Anderson from Ireland wants to get into the few rooms that the bunch of keys and big iron key wo n't open . |
| 12 | Perhaps she , also , was leaving a few secrets and a few memories behind . |
| 13 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 14 | It was empty apart from a few chairs and a couple of tables . |
| 15 | Nigel felt they were close for a few moments before the customary iciness set in . |
| 16 | Innumerable country spires turn bronze amid newly ploughed fields of copper , just for a few moments before the ball disappears . |
| 17 | It was a few moments before an answer occurred to him . |
| 18 | He waited a few moments until the footsteps were directly below him and peeked over the edge . |
| 19 | They would have the fire brigade round in a few moments if the external noise had been as loud as the internal one . |
| 20 | In the water I found only a few coins because the beach dropped off quite steeply into the water , making it difficult to detect . |
| 21 | As it was , I was lucky to get away with a few bruises if the person who slugged me was the one who knocked off Mahoney . |
| 22 | A few years ago no … came away from Pontypool without a few bruises and a thorough beating by the famous front row … those days have long gone … |
| 23 | Though separated from his Guard , Napoleon apparently remained in company with Soult , Bertrand and Drouot who , together with a few officers and an escort , were seen at Quatre Bras at 1 a.m. on 19 June . |
| 24 | Remaisnil itself is but a hamlet of five or six cottages , a few alleyways and a simple parish church to serve its sixty-five inhabitants . |
| 25 | In some parts of the country the extra charge amounts to just a few pounds but the average figure in County Durham and Cleveland is £20 . |
| 26 | It was only a matter of a few hours before the stranger had been slotted into the local kinship network ; and the recognition of kinship was mutual . |
| 27 | Current holder of the European title , Griffin was only passed fit to box by the championship doctor a few hours before the action got under way . |
| 28 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 29 | A spokesman for the ICPC said the investigation into the death started early on Sunday morning , a few hours after the body of Gerald Maginn was found . |
| 30 | The first real indication of the mood of the new House came on Wednesday , 3 June 1992 , the day after the Danish ‘ no ’ vote and a few hours after the prime minister had told Parliament that he intended nevertheless to press ahead with the bill ratifying the Maastricht Treaty . |