Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it is only a small island with a few houses and the great cathedral with its accompanying church , S. Fosca . |
| 2 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
| 3 | The light changed for a few minutes and a watery sun hit the flanks of Lovely Seat . |
| 4 | each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done . |
| 5 | There were few signs that the teenage devotee would turn to atheism even in 1978 , long after Paul had left South Bank . |
| 6 | A few years ago no … came away from Pontypool without a few bruises and a thorough beating by the famous front row … those days have long gone … |
| 7 | The first real indication of the mood of the new House came on Wednesday , 3 June 1992 , the day after the Danish ‘ no ’ vote and a few hours after the prime minister had told Parliament that he intended nevertheless to press ahead with the bill ratifying the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 8 | The black culture will have a significant , if not dominant , place in your family perspective because every other influence will be portraying and reinforcing the white culture — hence a token attempt with a few books and the occasional embarrassed conversation will not combat it . |
| 9 | Even with just a small balcony , a few steps or a tiny patio , your choice of containers is considerably enlarged , thereby increasing the amount of plants you can grow for pressing . |
| 10 | So why could Dr Neil , with a few words and a sidelong look , lance her indignation so easily , compel her to reassess herself and life ? |
| 11 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 12 | Kelly and Sear predict that things should actually improve over the next few months as the northern hemisphere continues to recover from the 0.5°C cooling that actually happened in June last year . |
| 13 | Few Australians and no Irish rugby supporter will ever forget Gordon Hamilton 's try in the latter stages of the 1991 World Cup quarter-final . |
| 14 | Staying with these kinds of variegations for a moment , ‘ Golden King ’ is a form of the hybrid of the common holly , Ilex x altaclarensis , whose broad leaves have very few spines and a wide outer rim of yellow . |
| 15 | It is only in the past few years that a good understanding of these types of collision has emerged , and it is only a year since Tiesinga et al . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ Mrs Peterson said , coming into the kitchen one morning a few days after the monthly nurse had left , ‘ you 'll be pleased to hear that the mistress has found a new servant at last . |
| 17 | In a terse statement the board of directors said it had ‘ considered the Great Britain management set-up and individual talks will take place over the next few days before a formal announcement is made ’ . |
| 18 | In a terse statement the board of directors said it had ‘ considered the Great Britain management set-up and individual talks will take place over the next few days before a formal announcement is made ’ . |
| 19 | I could n't blame him ; only a few days before an eminent surgeon had been badly mugged in the entrance to his Harley Street office in the middle of the afternoon . |
| 20 | A few days before the European Planning Committee was due to meet , Mueller decided to go for the jugular . |
| 21 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
| 22 | Patients have a sore throat for a few days but no other side effects . |
| 23 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 24 | A few weeks after the technical group returned , a group of commercial and legal experts flew out to Russia . |
| 25 | We have faced particularly traumatic times over the last few weeks as the economic situation has forced us to reduce our staff numbers in the UK . |
| 26 | There were few signposts and the rough roads had waterfilled potholes deep enough to drown a man — if the footpads did n't get him first . |
| 27 | He will normally find that this assumes the shape of a pyramid , with a broad base of people who had only 1 or 2 hearths tapering to a few persons or a single individual who owned a disproportionate share of the wealth . |
| 28 | We got a few laughs and the local press gave me a good write-up , and the church warden came to me and he said to me ‘ Frank , you should be an actor , ’ and I thought God had spoken because in those days , he was representing God as far as I was concerned … . |
| 29 | In Brazil , there came a romanticism of Indian life , though by the time of the establishment of the Republic in 1889 , they had few rights and the rubber boom brought entrepreneurs to the uppermost headwaters of the Amazon followed by railways and telegraph lines . |
| 30 | Answer : A few cents for the new bulb plus — the odd tree killed by acid rain ; a small rise in global temperatures from carbon dioxide emissions ; a proportion of the ecological disasters caused by marine oil spillages ; and the occasional nuclear accident . |