Example sentences of "become [adj] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | After a simple pre-take off litany ( minus the F for flaps ) which should be familiar to any Cessna 150 pilot , the Aircoupe accelerated down Halfpenny Green 's Runway 34 in a formation take-off , becoming airborne in a few hundred feet before I had to throttle back to keep in station with the hard-climbing 172 camera ship . |
2 | The Wise 's period saw a number of dramatic changes ; Days Mill was enlarged and updated , becoming one of the few in the Nailsworth area to boast the new power-looms . |
3 | Some idea of the strain to which the realm was submitted by these wars will become evident from a few sample years . |
4 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
5 | He became a sergeant and later , because of an act of suicidal braver , became one of the few men promoted from the ranks to become an officer . |
6 | By his appointment as permanent under-secretary of state for the colonies in 1956 , he became one of the few overseas service officers to assume the top post . |
7 | And they even became one of the few luxuries allowed to monks . |
8 | During his career at Chapman & Hall he became one of the few close friends of Evelyn Waugh , and in the Second World War took over many jobs in the firm , including that of production manager of the general list . |
9 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
10 | Whitham has come a long way from April 16 , 1988 when he won the Enkalon 1,000cc race and became one of the few English riders to score at Kirkistown at that time . |
11 | Daz Sumner , who became one of the few riders to beat Berwick 's powerful Richard Knight on his own track this season , tried to inspire his colleagues but even skipper Steve Regeling struggled for points . |
12 | Justification for Scott 's impressive display in the House of Commons became apparent within a few days of his drawings being hung . |
13 | The controls are well laid out and become instinctive after a few plays , though you have to let go of the joystick pretty smartish or you 'll move one block further than you intended . |
14 | That is , they fluctuate about a mean with a wavelength small compared with the dimensions of the sample , and the effects of these fluctuations become insignificant within a few wavelengths of the surface . |
15 | Many foreign brands have established themselves in the former Soviet Union for the sake of the publicity , but Baskin-Robbins becomes one of the few to commit themselves to manufacturing there . |