Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visit the area several times and you will find yourself being attracted to a few sites in particular : these are the places where you can meet the earth spirit . |
| 2 | City teachers , even the most experienced , are so accustomed to mobility , access to transport and social competence in getting around that they are continually surprised to find that so many of the children they teach lead lives confined to a few streets . |
| 3 | WACC has acquired a certain expertise in this field , but its activities so far have been confined to a few countries or sub-regions . |
| 4 | Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals . |
| 5 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 6 | At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond . |
| 7 | Syndicated euro-credits also enable banks to spread or diversify their risks by having a wide loan portfolio rather than being over-committed to a few customers . |
| 8 | She was invited to a few parties , kissed good-night outside her door in South Kensington , taken out to lunch by a young man training to be a chartered accountant , and to an Italian film by another who was ‘ in the City ’ ; she was beginning to forget about Rupert when one evening towards the end of January she was later than usual leaving Toogood and Shelve , the publishers , where she worked as secretary to Mr Shelve . |
| 9 | It is exceptionally ironic still to find children in a culture which has fathered half the popular music in the modern world , condemned to drone away in their music lessons over nineteenth-century hymn tunes , with dancing relegated to a few minutes at the conclusion of the physical education lessons . |
| 10 | Insights into the actual personality are restricted to a few words under the heading ‘ recreations ’ . |
| 11 | Sands and gravels deposited by water flowing from the melting glaciers are restricted to a few localities and there are no major raised beach deposits resulting from sea level changes relative to the land surface . |
| 12 | In this situation , the duration time should be reduced to a few minutes greater than the current elapsed time . |
| 13 | Yet , what , one might ask , is a tropical institute doing in central London in the 1980s when Britain 's influence and claims in those climes are largely reduced to a few dots on the global map ? |
| 14 | Instead , what we have are literally thousands of measures in educational testing , social surveys , attitude research or statistical analysis , with little or no idea as to how any of them could conceivably be reduced to a few dimensions or compared with agreed-upon standards . |
| 15 | As the tide reaches its height , the width of the beach is reduced to a few yards . |
| 16 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
| 17 | The level of the solution is then adjusted to a few centimetres above the level of solvent in s by means of a levelling rod 1 . |
| 18 | If only he could come across a barn in which he could seek refuge from the full force of the gale … but visibility was limited to a few strides . |
| 19 | Cannons are dangerous if sometimes unpredictable weapons whose manufacture is limited to a few groups of human and Dwarf experts . |
| 20 | One of the serious limitations is the total interaction time with the microwaves , limited to a few milliseconds by the speed of the atomic beam and by the separation of the two Ramsey regions . |
| 21 | Currency : Spanish pesetas Best buys : ceramics , baskets , guitars Sports : surfing , windsurfing , scuba diving , snorkelling , sailing , walking Nightclubs : limited to a few discos Season : from May until late October . |
| 22 | If that is a problem , ( limited to a few versions of the AMI bios ) a full fix involves doing without Stealth in QEMM , which may be a trade off ardent QEMM users do not wish to make . |
| 23 | The beginnings were slow and limited to a few sectors where differences in labour costs were important . |
| 24 | All are strongly seasonal , with activity limited to a few days or weeks in summer . |
| 25 | Its success is almost invariably limited to the few cases where free advice enables a businessman to make immediate cost savings . |
| 26 | Similarly , in 3 the time span which is indicated by " now " is limited to the few seconds immediately following the utterance , whereas in 4 the reference of " now " extends well before and after the time of utterance . |
| 27 | And despite their higher incomes , they rarely become rich because their activities are limited to the few months during the year when the climate is favourable for construction work . |
| 28 | The company claims that the time taken to generate and integrate the management of , for example , a network hub can be cut to a few hours . |
| 29 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
| 30 | 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 . |