Example sentences of "the [adj] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ? |
| 2 | It was lightly teased into the top few inches of soil , after rain , to top up the fertility and to ensure that there are banked reserves to see crops through their long winter haul . |
| 3 | Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out . |
| 4 | Persistent surface weedkillers remain active in the top few centimetres of the soil , killing new weeds as they germinate , yet they do not harm most established roses , shrubs and trees , whose roots are well below the surface . |
| 5 | For example , there is enough material in a glass of water to run a car for ten years , enough in the top few centimetres of Lake Erie to power New York State for a similar time and enough in the oceans to keep us going indefinitely . |
| 6 | A typical microcomputer system therefore consists of a microprocessor chip , one or more ROM chips , one or more RAM chips ( to hold variable data ) , and a further chip to decode the top few bits of the 16-bit address coming from the microprocessor , in order to direct it to the appropriate store chip . |
| 7 | The top few levels of such a classification would go |
| 8 | Attaching carpet piercing spikes to the base , and making sure the system pierces the top few millimetres of wood below the carpet adds further to security . |
| 9 | He undid his tie so that it hung loose around his neck and unfastened the top few buttons on his shirt . |
| 10 | Though still dressed , he had removed his jacket and tie , and the top few buttons of his shirt were undone . |
| 11 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 12 | The same two kinds of explanations could also apply to the layering of the outer few kilometres of the Apollo 17 site . |
| 13 | Our measurements give values of 1.83x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R54 ) and 2.78x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R151 ) in the central few degrees of retina , and 5.57x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R54 ) and 4.69x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R151 ) in the remaining region ( Table 1 ) . |
| 14 | Her next door neighbour , a Mrs. Ellen Greaves , gave evidence that she had constantly challenged Esther Dyson in sign language ( which she had learnt through daily contact with the deaf brother and sister ) over the preceding few months about her being in the family way . |
| 15 | An extended duct is available to accommodate the extra few inches of depth created by a cavity wall |
| 16 | Advantages were the vacuum facility ( worth the extra few pounds above the price of the blower model ) , light weight and length of nozzle . |
| 17 | ‘ The extra few days off helped Gough , but it was n't my intention to play him at Aberdeen if the midweek game had been on . ’ |
| 18 | To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc . |
| 19 | The feel of Master Harry 's mallet in his hand , the way the heel of it swung in his palm , filled him with a fever of ambition and impatience , and he could not wait the threatened few days for the assay . |
| 20 | So , after the inevitable few months of bereavement , Amy went to work on herself , for herself . |
| 21 | During a mild winter they often start flowering in early March , and M. grandiflora still has the occasional few flowers in December . |
| 22 | However , the critical few moments at the start of the launch are not always fully understood , and often there is an element of luck in getting it right . |
| 23 | It traps the warmth of the odd sunny spell , and wards off the critical few degrees of cold . |
| 24 | The screening takes place in the coming few months in the next stage of a three-year programme . |
| 25 | Notice the vital few words with the people at the garage , the bank , the booking-office , the doctor 's surgery . |
| 26 | Ipswich then enjoyed the final few minutes of a memorable league campaign . |
| 27 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 28 | But , even with all this sophisticated support , the final few years to the point of consumption continue to defy mechanisation . |
| 29 | The Walks were forbidden to the villagers and in the final few weeks of pregnancy , Tamar spent much of her time strolling there , in such complete seclusion that she felt cut off from civilisation . |
| 30 | Although he had felt his senses were ‘ charred ’ , he wrote some of his greatest poems , such as ‘ Spring Offensive ’ , during the final few weeks of his life . |