Example sentences of "and with [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Home was a little nearer , and with every few miles the countryside grew a little uglier . |
2 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
3 | I started to fix the tongue and groove boarding , and with a few boards in place , felt confident enough to work on the roof . |
4 | The show has , he said , ‘ something of the air of a school reunion about it ’ , and with a few exceptions ‘ it is the Pound business much as usual ’ . |
5 | But it has been long established ( Habakkuk 1953 , McKeown and Brown 1955 ) that medical knowledge of the time could not cure any important cause of death , could prevent only smallpox , and with a few exceptions remained impotent until the present century . |
6 | He then pointed out that the financial-management literature concentrated exclusively on stage 4 , and with a few exceptions this is still the situation today . |
7 | In 891/1486 , when Bayezid II built his medrese in Amasya , he stipulated that the muftis of Amasya should act as muderris , a condition which is reported to have been observed without exception until 1033/1623–4 , and with a few exceptions until 1084/1673–4 when the two offices were finally separated . |
8 | I pulled the wing above my head , steadied it , turned and faced downhill and with a few steps forward , and a gentle push from David , I was airborne . |