Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acne may be a case of a few spots and blackheads , or it can be a highly distressing skin disease with redness , inflammation , pimples and even scarring . |
| 2 | It 's just a case of it 's just a case of a few individuals or people with rank who think they 've go so much power they 're gon na press people |
| 3 | DEC last week reversed a decision of a few weeks standing not to put OSF/1 on future MIPS machines ( UX No 386 ) and reverted to an earlier strategy that will — see front page . |
| 4 | It added that control of inflation was necessary , but it was important that ‘ a reduction of a few percentage points in the headline inflation rate should not be achieved at a disproportionate cost in terms of income creation and employment ’ . |
| 5 | In a cleft in the escarpment beside a stream is a camp of a few tents . |
| 6 | How can a beam of electrons that is made to wiggle in a plane with a spatial period of a few centimetres possible produce electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of a few microns ? |
| 7 | The number of large publishers is much smaller — a figure of a few hundred , steadily diminishing as the smaller independent firms are taken over by large conglomerates . |
| 8 | As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen … |
| 9 | A gap of a few inches appeared , with more feet behind it . |
| 10 | Because they Hyflo has 4 outlets , and I am trying to keep within budget , I would make do with 4 plates with a gap of a few inches between them — the overall effect should be total bottom filtration as there would be some sideways suction across the gravel in the gaps . |
| 11 | Because I think it was Tommy that said it was really after the one finished and there was nothing else round about that there was a gap of a few years and then you got started again here . |
| 12 | These organisations are rare , although an example might be a partnership of a few individuals who do all the work of the organisation themselves ( with perhaps a little administrative assistance ) . |
| 13 | There may then be a break of a few days while participants work to devise a training session . |
| 14 | Classically these crimes have been seen as a result of a few mentally deranged men . |
| 15 | Can the Minister allay my suspicions about this by assuring me that as a result of a few industrialists having contributed to the programme we shall not find the names of certain chairmen and managing directors appearing in the new year honours list ? |
| 16 | ‘ My life can only be a question of a few weeks . |
| 17 | particles are stopped by a sheet of aluminium and a have a range of a few metres in the air . |
| 18 | The killer must have been kneeling there , pistol at the ready , and as Francis emerged he or she had fired at a range of a few inches . |
| 19 | There were scuffles outside the Rossiya Hotel , where the ‘ Russian Citizens ’ Conference ’ was being held , as a mob of a few hundred tried to prevent delegates entering . |
| 20 | She was moved to offer , ‘ You 've only a basket of a few items , you might as well go in front of me . |
| 21 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
| 22 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 23 | Work-shadowing , whereby a student follows a business person during her normal work routines over a period of a few weeks is becoming increasingly commonplace in the UK . |
| 24 | That this should have happened , within a period of a few generations for example , and therefore in evolutionary terms , immediately , is palpably unlikely , for the mental development which heralded the beginnings of civilisation could have started long before man 's activities were such as would leave archaeological evidence . |
| 25 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 26 | One school suddenly lost some of its best students over a period of a few weeks . |
| 27 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |
| 28 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
| 29 | Other changes in structure developed more slowly , but although the pattern looked different over a period of a few years , analogues of the basic groups seem to have been present ever since the phenomenon of the contemporary football fan arose in the middle to late 1960s . |
| 30 | As it happens , there is a substantial engine refurbishment contract in the offing which ( although tenders have not yet been invited ) promises to bring someone several tens of millions of pounds in revenue over a period of a few years . |