Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is one of the few artists to make a successful transition from music to movies . |
| 2 | A superb trout hooked itself firmly and during a breathtaking few minutes gave a spectacular display and a wonderful fight . |
| 3 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 4 | So this evening , as we come to the end of one year and prepare for the next , can we spend a few minutes doing a spiritual work-out and look at the consequences of what John wrote about the uniqueness of Jesus . |
| 5 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 6 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 7 | Having found a comfortable Gasthof in the suburb of Spitalhof , I passed a few hours wandering the old town . |
| 8 | Casual encounters on the beat are kept to a minimum by the public , primarily , the police claim , as a result of intimidation , and constables get few opportunities to display the interactive skills that might foster good community relations , although the rare occasions when this happens are seized upon by the men and recalled with pleasure thereafter . |
| 9 | He argues further that from a legal point of view objectors have few opportunities to present an effective case . |
| 10 | He walked along its edge , his lips pursed , stopping every few paces to study a particular knot of fibres or to read some of the tiny lines of symbols that moved ceaselessly in the spaces between the shapes . |
| 11 | Those last few words describe the present position . |
| 12 | A spokesman for the Assembly stated that it was hoped to hold elections by the end of 1992 , but that they might have to be postponed for a few months given the parlous state of the country . |
| 13 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |
| 14 | About a mile away , at Sheridan Circle , our director , the former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Leteleir and Ronni Moffitt , an institute worker , were killed in October 1976 by a car bomb planted by right-wing Cubans in the pay of the Pinochet secret police : only in the past few months has the Chilean government paid compensation to their families . |
| 15 | Few clients knew the probable losses they were letting themselves in for , were they to continue trading . |
| 16 | Few schools serve a homogeneous intake , the majority draw on a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds and care needs to be taken that false assumptions are not made about parents ' hopes for their children and their beliefs about the purpose of education . |
| 17 | A few schools used the Minor award to take on " major " challenges , while two were successful in receiving additional project funds in a subsequent year , presumably an acknowledgement that the initial diagnosis of their need was only partially informed . |
| 18 | A few schools mentioned the expanding remit of senior staff as ‘ a worrying situation ’ and implications for staff development of the co-ordinator were also raised : |
| 19 | At present , few schools have a positive policy in this respect . |
| 20 | Brewing up was easy — all that had to be done was to shift a few boulders to reach a hot spot lower down , and pop a billy-can of snow into the hole . |
| 21 | Such wealthier peasants could easily become dominant figures in a village , because surprisingly few communities had a resident lord . |
| 22 | Hauling in four feet of slack , and highly tense because of the unaccustomed big crag environment , I clawed across the remaining few feet to gain a sloping stance at the base of the imposing corner . |
| 23 | Very few salons have a sliding scale of charges bonus points for those who do . |
| 24 | Stoddard Templeton is one of the few companies to become a Registered Firm under this scheme . |
| 25 | Only a few demos have a specific product in mind — most are just like these … |
| 26 | So few passes breach the near impenetrable mountains that most communication between the inner and outer realms takes place by sea . |
| 27 | These correlations arise because a normal mode , although formally involving the whole molecule , may actually involve significant motions of only a few atoms constituting a discrete group , and hence have a frequency primarily determined by the group and only slightly affected by the nature of the rest of the molecule . |
| 28 | It is obviously every bit as important to respect the wild flowers in a foreign country as it is in one 's own , and not to pick large quantities of anything as you will only need a few pieces to create a floral souvenir of your trip . |
| 29 | He left for a few years to manage a national school , independent of the British system , but returned to read law . |
| 30 | Such a register carefully maintained in a builder 's organisation will within a few years provide a detailed and comprehensive list of the majority of the subcontract labour available in an area , with consequent improvement in efficiency in locating a suitable work-force . |