Example sentences of "with [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As David Shulman , equity strategist at Salomon Brothers , was the first to point out , the danger for investors these days lies less with the few hot shares whose rise he misses than with the many dubious ones already in his portfolio . |
2 | What we do find , as with the few collective farms in Roslavl' , is an obsession with possible growth-points admired by the Bolsheviks . |
3 | Even with the few remaining assets , there is very little margin to work on . |
4 | Even the local reporter had to kick his heels at the lich-gate with the few inquisitive neighbours who had gathered . |
5 | Without bothering to confirm the report , Guretzky-Cornitz passed it on to Army HQ , embellished with a few boastful addenda of his own . |
6 | Personally , I doubt that any of the current technologies will seriously challenge a good presentation made with a few well-designed 35mm slides . |
7 | It was dark and dirty , with a few rough-looking men in the bar . |
8 | ‘ You are in a place hundreds of miles from London with a few paltry soldiers to guard your back . |
9 | On the far side the force of the high water had separated the outside board from the one next to it , and , crossing the bridge with a few long strides , Silas kicked it back into place . |
10 | A sketch with a few rough dimensions may be enough for a man to trim some timber into a frame for a house . |
11 | The Croats drove out the Serbs from Kupres this week and , according to eye-witnesses , wished them well with a few genocidal strokes . |
12 | While the criteria apply to around 260 companies throughout Europe , Jeffrey Knight , special adviser to the Federation , says that it hopes to start the Eurolist early next year with a few major companies and then expand it rapidly . |
13 | So is this just with a few major accounts or |
14 | The taproom of the Sea Barque was cool although musty , its tables nothing but barrels , with a few rickety stools and benches round the walls . |
15 | Like Denmark , Holland is one of the more go-ahead countries with regard to the sexually transmitted diseases , but , lacking the centralized pathology laboratory , the standard outside the four clinics ( two in Rotterdam and one each in Amsterdam and Utrecht — there are no provincial or peripheral clinics ) is variable , with a few private practitioners providing the only reasonable alternative . |
16 | This beautiful crab has a wide carapace , with a few faint depressions on its upper surface , and a spiny margin . |
17 | The largest falcon of the region , resembling a large stout Peregrine ( p. 93 ) in outline , though with slightly blunter wings with broader bases , and longer tail , but extremely variable in plumage , from almost white with a few dark flecks to almost completely dark grey ; most frequent form is like rather pale Peregrine , but lacking the dark moustachial streak . |
18 | I will conclude with a few general points about the methodological problems raised by Freeman 's paper . |
19 | With a few possible exceptions , it is not worthwhile stocking up with other components in large numbers because it would either be too costly , or it would take years to use them all up . |
20 | Very kind , but international players are supposed to be habitually influential , and it was Hazard who in the second half , with a few incisive passes , gifts from the heavens on a day like this , left a greater mark . |
21 | The cheesemakers are quite happy to share their secrets , so make sure you come away with a few useful recipes , such as those for making Appenzell cheese tarts , Appenzell Rosti , Appenzell cheese pillows , cheese souffle and Appenzellerei , a luscious blend of ham pork , onions , parsley and cheese . |
22 | We have recently had another Degree Day and an opportunity to meet up with a few familiar faces . |
23 | Currently the independent music scene , with a few shining exceptions , is concerned with making a successful career , selling a lot of records , and that 's never been a concern of mine . |
24 | We set off at a rattling rate , presumably to put some distance between us and the dozens of others still ponderously selecting items of clothing from their car boots , and I commenced my belligerence with a few barbed remarks about the pace-setting . |
25 | In the centre would be several lines of trestle tables carrying cages for chicken , ducks and geese with a few tame rabbits . |
26 | For he can see in the X-ray picture of a chest only the shadows of the heart and ribs , with a few spidery blotches between them . |
27 | The American novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote standing at a tall refrigerator — a chair and table being too cramped for the big mountain man — and he dropped unnumbered sheets , each with a few scrawled words , into a cardboard box at his feet . |
28 | The programme was filmed at Associated British Elstree Studios , with a few outside scenes shot in Cornwall . |
29 | He had done it so easily too , vanquishing every suspicion of Luke 's with a few casual sentences . |
30 | He talked about frogs , with a few live examples , plus some tadpoles . |