Example sentences of "[subord] [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were confined to the ratty quarter-acre of ground , screened off by the landscapers , where the few remaining caravans crouched in shabby senescence . |
| 2 | I decided to go the house a few gardens away where a few pitiful meows brings some food from the woman . |
| 3 | Quiss came back to the table by way of another small , though taller , table over on the far side of the room , where a few dirty cups and cracked glasses stood in a small tin basin under a dripping tap . |
| 4 | When the kite is launched on a fully paid-out line , it will soar to height where a few diligent shakes ought to detach our little friend , not forgetting the golden rule of anchoring the static line somehow so that the parachute deploys ! |
| 5 | It was as large a set as had been developed earlier for general use , except for the London area ( where a few larger sets had been installed in the 1930s and some larger sets of somewhat antiquated design were also completed by the BEA in its early years ) , There were , however , doubts about the flexibility in start-up and shut-down times for the new 60MW and other new designs , and a fortiori about more advanced designs . |
| 6 | She returned to the present , replaced the cleaned pail , the soap , the brush and the swab beside the pump in the lean-to outhouse at the back — it stood in a small soot-encrusted yard where a few fearless London sparrows frequently gathered — and returned to the house to clean the surgery . |
| 7 | You board the ferry at Dover early Friday afternoon , switch to the train at Calais ( where a few French francs are useful ) and reach St Anton on Saturday in time for breakfast . |
| 8 | Although the industry seems to be rallying to DCE , which is being touted as the future de facto , if not de jure , standard for creating and implementing distributed client/server applications , as Sun points out , no-one is using DCE — except a few early developers — whilst it already has some three million odd ONC licencees . |
| 9 | Hence , it is unlikely that all dune forms will ever be reduced to one or two simple categories , although a few simple categories may describe the basic forms . |
| 10 | As long as there is a healthy collection of lactobacilli in the vagina , conditions will be unfavourable for other micro-organisms , and , although a few such organisms may be isolated , their presence does not signify any important infection . |
| 11 | Although a few other animals were captured , no adults were successfully moved out of the danger area . |
| 12 | The NHS has invested little in work schemes , although a few innovative services have established enterprises in such areas as gardening and horticulture , catering services and computer programming or word processing activities . |
| 13 | Most of the factions in Los Angeles called themselves ‘ gangs ’ , although a few used names like ‘ the police , ’ or ‘ the sheriffs ’ . |
| 14 | But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives . |
| 15 | In these raids there were no human casualties in any of the deaf centres , although a few deaf families were made homeless when their homes were hit . |
| 16 | Staying cloudy in most places although a few bright intervals at possible and apart from the odd chance of a light shower it should stay dry milder than of late top temperature eleven celsius fifty two fahrenheit mist and patchy fog will form tonight and drizzle is likely in places too the overnight low eight celsius forty six fahrenheit mist and fog clearing slowly tomorrow a dull start it should brighten up later on though sunny intervals developing the high tomorrow thirteen degrees . |
| 17 | This system was confined mainly to boys , although a few orphaned girls had limited opportunities in such institutions as the Conservatorio della Pietà in the Venice of Vivaldi . |
| 18 | Potted shrimps alone remain as the sole representative of these products to retain something of its original nature , although a few smoked haddock pastes are beginning to appear on London restaurant menus . |
| 19 | The housing problem had improved little since the 1890s , although a few local authorities , notably the LCC , had taken advantage of the legislation of 1890 and 1900 to build the first large council estates . |
| 20 | It does not seem so bad when you first approach the language , and you have grasped the not very difficult ( for Scots especially ) alphabet , although a few less words beginning ‘ vagly ’ would be welcome . |
| 21 | He had driven her half out of her mind with little more than a few heated kisses , and the humiliation of knowing just how much she 'd wanted him burned into her . |
| 22 | Gerry Burton 's announcement in April last year that he would not be seeking re-election as Kidson Impey 's national senior partner caused more than a few raised eyebrows . |
| 23 | Meade 's paper would not on its own have caused more than a few small ripples in the higher echelons of the civil service . |
| 24 | Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units . |
| 25 | Indeed , you get the feeling that there 'd be more than a few pro-war songs knocking about if it shifted the units . |
| 26 | Specimens of these butterflies are often found with bite-marks in the region of these false eyes , showing that bird predators really are attracted to this part of the body , allowing the insects to fly off to safety with no more damage than a few frayed edges . |
| 27 | " Readers ' , in this case , usually means large population-samples of " ordinary people " , rather than a few professional readers ( critics , reviewers , literary academics , professors and the like ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I never heard of a transmat with a range of more than a few thousand kilometres , so I 'd say we 're probably going somewhere else on this planet . ’ |
| 29 | Secondly , you should be aware that VMS itself becomes very slow once a directory has more than a few thousand files in it . |
| 30 | All animals more than a few thousand cells big need to have some sort of scaffolding to keep their bodies in shape . |