Example sentences of "and [adj] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also sent him some of his famed fake letters in the name of ‘ Edna Welthorpe ’ — a character he invented for his own fun and that of the few chosen intimates who were allowed to receive them . |
| 2 | And due to a few unforseen obstacles some did n't even manage that . |
| 3 | Long after the demonstration ended , groups of demonstrators , each of several hundred and some of a few thousand , were dotted about the square , cheering and chanting . |
| 4 | Long after the afternoon demonstration ended , groups of demonstrators , each of several hundred and some of a few thousand , were dotted about the square , cheering and chanting . |
| 5 | The wind resistant Tactel and Ebyl Thermovelours fleece helped keep me snug and warm on the few chilly days we 've had this summer . |
| 6 | You do n't want a firm whose work of good , but who may leave you high and not-so-dry for a few weeks . |
| 7 | And all about a few roses . |
| 8 | Four boys had beaten him up , forced him into a laundry basket and left him helpless under a cold shower , and all for a few ill-judged words and a bar of soap . |
| 9 | It is a primeval wilderness tamed only where men built boundary walls two centuries ago , finding and cutting the stone they needed , feeding and sleeping on the site , and all for a few pence a day . |
| 10 | Who would n't jump at the chance of spending a free six months in the Southern Hemisphere , flights paid , car provided and all for a few afternoons coaching ? |
| 11 | Thirteen thousand minds , memories , loves , sensations , worlds , universes — because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself- and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud . |
| 12 | Everyone 's position was dubious in some respect : no one had been able to stand aloof from the efforts of Philip and Mary to turn England back to popery , and all except the few convinced Romanists in the village hoped that the days of compulsory religion and inquisitions would now be over . |
| 13 | It had stopped snowing now and the sky was clear and black with a few stars . |
| 14 | In 1793 the first Republican French ambassador received a rapturous welcome when he arrived off Seraglio Point , his ship flying the Ottoman , Republican French and American colours , ‘ and those of a few other powers that had not sullied their arms in the impious league of tyrants ’ . |
| 15 | Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work . |
| 16 | The improvement in arthritis , gout , blood pressure , diabetes , or blood cholesterol level may be dramatic , and evident within a few weeks or months of a dietary programme . |
| 17 | I do n't care what you say , they really are marvellous creatures and one of the few animals in God 's world that do absolutely nothing but good . |
| 18 | For another , his is one of the largest sheep farms in the area and one of the few where the ewes are lambed outdoors . |
| 19 | He was a trusted friend and one of the few people ever to have been in the Prince 's employ who spoke frankly to him , and when asked would give an honest , if sometimes unwelcome , opinion . |
| 20 | Having lived with it for 19 months , John Dyer , an unlikely champion of investors ' rights and one of the few ‘ fortunates ’ not hit hard by the collapse , was fulsome in his praise for BCIG 's supporters . |
| 21 | The Israelis , fielding five international masters and two FIDE masters against Bayern 's six grandmasters , went down by the narrow margin of 7–5 after IM Leonid Zaid ( a recent arrival from the USSR and one of the few men alive with a plus score against Kasparov ) shocked the Germans by defeating Kindermann and Bischoff . |
| 22 | For the first time , an entirely independent body had uncovered a direct statistical link between Britain 's biggest nuclear power station and one of the few types of cancer which displayed a clear pathway back to radiation exposure . |
| 23 | The hotel , catering and tourist industry is the second largest employer in the United Kingdom , a major contributor to the balance of payments , and one of the few industries which is showing , and will continue to show , real growth . |
| 24 | Crime is one of the fastest-growing and one of the few recession-proof industries . |
| 25 | ‘ The truth is men like gadgets , they like to control their environment , ’ points out Dr Margaret Shotton , author of Computer Addiction ? and one of the few academics to have taken a serious look at video game culture . |
| 26 | Idomeneo , Mozart 's first mature opera , is a landmark in the history of opera and one of the few 18th-century opere serie to still have regular performances two centuries later ; it is also a taste of things to come . |
| 27 | Nineteenth-century specialist François Perreau-Saussine of Galerie du Carrousel has dropped in , together with Nicolas Joly from Galerie Yves Mikaeloff who is presenting ten pre-cubist and cubist drawings by Andre Mare alongside seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works , including an early La Hyre and one of the few Nicolas Mignards still to be found outside the Louvre . |
| 28 | Sotheby 's open the Impressionist season with Matisse 's ‘ Fatma , la mulatresse ’ painted in 1912 and one of the few pictures of this period likely to come on the market . |
| 29 | The reserve of Folkstumyren is on Dovrefjell and , as the name suggests , is a large mire or marsh and one of the few places in Norway where cranes breed . |
| 30 | Museum professionals are agreed , however , that it is the work of a North Italian master in the last quarter of the fifteenth century and one of the few major bronzes to have survived from this period . |