Example sentences of "[noun] apart [prep] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies .
2 Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them .
3 Station staff knew everyone worth knowing in the suburb apart from the few tradesmen who made no use of the railway for carriage of goods .
4 Shetland has no biting insects apart from a few midges in late summer , and I had n't realised just how much of a problem these Arctic mosquitoes could be .
5 But most areas did avoid the rain apart from a few spots of rain over the islands .
6 It was over , he was unhurt , and it had n't cost him a penny apart from the few pence in his pocket — and as the kidnapping was n't what was eating his heart out he knew he could n't pretend it was .
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