Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their way of life involved annual circuits from one seasonal hunting ground to another , using the few materials available to them — stone , clay , bone , skins , sinews , and a little driftwood timber — with dog sledges for transport . |
| 2 | President , congress in the few minutes available to me this afternoon to speak to my written report I want to touch on three issues . |
| 3 | His death in 1804 removed ‘ one of the few lives precious to mankind ’ , in the words of Thomas Jefferson , third president of the United States . |
| 4 | Nevertheless he is one of the few batsmen available to South Africa who has a proven record of being able to put big hundreds together and this is a prime requirement for Test match cricket . |
| 5 | Unknown to many of the trapped men , but suspected by the more experienced , poisonous gases had started to gather in the few roadways available to them . |
| 6 | Perhaps what the authorities need to consider in the few months available to them is just when a decision needs to be made . |
| 7 | Third , there was the severe deterioration of industrial relations in the few years prior to 1914 which brought with it violent strikes and syndicalism . |
| 8 | To cut from a model a few inches long to a close-up of a face — Harrison Ford in the police Spinner in Blade Runner — establishes an identity between them . |
| 9 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 10 | A few peaks due to the excitation of overtones of vibrations of lower symmetry ( e.g. 2ν 9 ) can also be seen , but the main feature of the spectrum is a set of progressions in ν 1 , with or without excitation of one of the other a 1g modes . |
| 11 | Next , select a few races prior to your target race that will serve as your short-term goals and fitness checks . |
| 12 | Government and national accounts business unit manager Stewart Oldroyd , claimed that the company has already signed up a few orders prior to the official release , the most significant of which is with the National Bank of Hungary . |
| 13 | I should have known that Jean-Claude would wish to return to Paris a few days prior to the anniversary of Montaine 's death , a date embossed not only on his and Mme Guérigny 's mind but on my own . |
| 14 | The solution sometimes adopted is to send the article to the Attorney-General a few days prior to its intended publication . |
| 15 | There are a few places available to Q.T. 's who are interested in taking part please contact immediately but send accommodation fee — £32 to the Office . |
| 16 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 17 | ( A few weeks prior to this we had some special wrought iron gates made . |
| 18 | This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us . |
| 19 | In a statement , the company said : All Meon Villas are inspected a few weeks prior to the start of each letting season , with particular emphasis on safety . |
| 20 | this case concerns a claim for pain and suffering lasting a few seconds prior to death arising from the hillsborough incident . |
| 21 | Erm you were telling me when we had the preliminary interview about erm what happened a few months prior to the disturbances that occurred in the late Summer . |
| 22 | I had spotted this on my travels a few months previous to this time and had made a mental note to return and search it . |
| 23 | But it projected enthusiasm , delight and knowledge right through the television screen and it made Peter within a few months well-known to millions of people who had never imagined that they had any interest in natural history . |