Example sentences of "[coord] [art] few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now it was the rush hour and he was squeezed into the corner of a carriage by a family of Swedish tourists who talked loudly and without vowels and continuously trafficked maps and guidebooks across him , so there was no chance of getting a look at the diaries or the few folded sheets of paper that were wedged between them . |
| 2 | A few hundred or a few thousand farmers might oppose a return to downland because it would mean lower profits . |
| 3 | Where there is a strong relationship between the degree subject and one or a few subsequent types of work , it is possible to orientate the curriculum towards such work . |
| 4 | In particular , when the creature has to take account of a wide range of structural differences and similarities between distinct situations ( as opposed to concentrating on only one or a few physical parameters ) , these structural features can only be represented symbolically — for , by hypothesis , they have no physical features in common . |
| 5 | The Good Retirement Guide is not designed to offer you a ready-made philosophy or a few rose-tinted blueprints on the theme ‘ Life Begins in Middle Age ’ . |
| 6 | Alternatively , add 2 or 3 teaspoonfuls of soil , or a few dead leaves . |
| 7 | It was just one more sign of his separateness from the people around who would buy a cow or a few more fields . |
| 8 | ‘ To a man without a job a few more houses on a field or a few foreign accents in the local pub seem a price worth paying for prosperity . |
| 9 | By 1928 the Kaszubes numbered around 110,000 , and they and the few thousand speakers of Leban dialect were the last survivors of the original Slav settlers of Pomerania . |
| 10 | And the few new sites made available through the Countryside Stewardship Access Scheme would be impossible for most people to find , said Douglas Hart , who monitored seven out of the 11 locations in Suffolk . |
| 11 | The journey went on and on — before long we were travelling at a walking pace , and I and the few other passengers were anxiously clearing the condensation from the windows and peering into the murk in an effort to see where we were . |
| 12 | Telford Avenue was now practically cleared of ex-L.C.C. cars and the few remaining spaces there were filled by ex-Walthamstow cars , contemporary with the ex-Croydon E/1s and closely similar to them . |
| 13 | While the sepoys hesitated , afraid that they were being attacked in the rear , he and the few surviving Sikhs made a dash for the trench and safety . |
| 14 | And that 's the strongest way of all of making timbers and looking at medieval pictures and the few medieval survivors , that 's the way it was done . |
| 15 | But there were times too when he could not bear to look at the free birds and preferred to huddle wanly in the shadows of his shelter , where no visitors could see him , and stare at the bare , stained concrete that was his wild moorland , and the grubby little basin of water that was his lake and the few square feet of cage that was his sky . |
| 16 | This crazy world whirled about her , men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets , where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked and played musical instruments in the small and terrible hours of the night into which again she had been thrust . |
| 17 | We saw no razorbills , which was a surprise , and the few little auks we saw were all out on the water , but the puffins made up for the loss . |
| 18 | Staggering And , after earning at the staggering rate of nearly $60 a second throughout this tournament , he said : ‘ I would rather win Wimbledon again and a few thousand pounds than this tournament and all this money . ’ |
| 19 | One interesting side effect of the fire in Ankh-Morpork concerns the inn-sewer-ants policy , which left the city through the ravaged roof of the Broken Drum , was wafted high into the discworld 's atmosphere on the ensuing thermal , and came to earth several days and a few thousand miles away on an uloruaha bush in the beTrobi islands . |
| 20 | A mild breeze shook the leaves and a few dark clouds scudded across the sky . |
| 21 | May Sinclair also wrote various pieces of literary criticism on both nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors , a Brontë biography ( The Three Brontës , 1912 ) , and a few unpublished dramas . |
| 22 | Margulis 's theory is that mitochondria and chloroplasts , and a few other structures inside cells , are each descended from bacteria . |
| 23 | In the South Midlands and a few other areas where farm labourers could earn only a pittance crafts that employed mothers and daughters provided welcome extra income . |
| 24 | A city where the fringe theatre meant Jim Haynes , Charles Marovitz , and a few other expatriates from across the Atlantic , and avant-garde cinema a night out at the 35-year-old Academy in Oxford Street . |
| 25 | Let's go into the other room and we 'll have a word about his diet and a few other things . " |
| 26 | Other products are bought on the commodity exchanges , like to a large extent tea cocoa and a few other things like Rowntrees buying cocoa from Ghana but now they seem to buy it anywhere that they can get it cheaply . |
| 27 | I have a neighbour with a toddler who was outgrowing several of the things I was looking for ; the pram came from her , and a few other things as well . |
| 28 | I think the conclusion coming out of that is that as a result of what I 've described and a few other things as well , not least the fact that the company has now capped its contribution rate to no more than ten per cent . |
| 29 | Low kicks to the legs are not allowed , but apart from that and a few other rules , kickboxing is similar to the other martial art ring-sports . |
| 30 | I mean , in Britain , if I was studying the daisy family for example , there 'd be the garden daisy and a few other bits and bobs , but that would be it . |