Example sentences of "that [adv] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left .
2 Also , the results of many surveys in both the United States and the United Kingdom suggest that only a few firms explicitly take the rate of interest into account in deciding whether or not to carry out an investment project .
3 It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome .
4 What was this very special place that only a few hours ago I had cursed myself for entering ?
5 A light sampling approach is employed with the result that only a few students , in each of a representative sample of schools , are required to complete tests .
6 He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul .
7 One hears odd whispers to the effect that the production of seed is limited , and that only a few growers are allowed to handle them .
8 We saw that only a few months ago when the right hon. Gentleman vetoed the appointment of a Labour city councillor in favour of the appointment of his Tory placeman .
9 At the same time energy is lost from rotational degrees of freedom , by collisions during the expansion , and samples often end up almost entirely in the lowest few rotational levels , so that only a few transitions are observed in the spectrum .
10 Starting at the crowded favoured end is all very well if you can get a good clean start , but more often than not , there is so much crowding that only a few boards get away in clean wind .
11 I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more .
12 She did not reflect that only a few weeks ago she would have thought it impossible that she could have lived the life of a servant , let alone bear eating and drinking in the den in which Rose and her ma lived , but she did know one thing — she would never take her comfortable life for granted again .
13 And he revealed that only a few weeks ago Magherafelt traders turned down the option of having security gates erected in the town during a meeting with police .
14 This limits the number of possible combinations such that only a few examples exist in this category .
15 It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell .
16 The result is that the Viking badge today adorns a range of cars that only a few years ago would have been impossible to imagine .
17 It is interesting that only a few years ago Mr Albert Baker of Baker Bros. , Upper Halling , paid the Vicar part of the cost of wood he had cut in Halling woods .
18 Approaching a set of traffic lights where she normally went straight on , and where the queue ahead seemed to stretch into infinity , she realised that only a few cars were waiting to turn left into the Cheltenham road .
19 Some of this pollen is inevitably brushed off when a bee visits another flower , but bearing in mind that only a few grains are needed to bring about cross-fertilisation , and that a bee on a single journey may collect two million , it is clear that the price a plant pays for this transport is a very high one .
20 I think that just a few points that needs to be made .
21 Does he recall that just a few months ago he dismissed devolution as a stale hangover from the 1960s in which there was no public interest ?
22 remember that just a few weeks ago that you were de , almost denying that we 'd have to do this sort of thing !
23 " And I thought that maybe a few bruises under the seat of your pants might make sure you remember something else that 's important .
24 I 've tried that quite a few times , so
25 One possible factor in the success of some of these marriages is that quite a few women do seem to get a kick out of seeing men dressed up in women 's clothing , though I do n't know why .
26 However , after conduction an informal poll , I can report that quite a few women of a certain age think Mr McShane is hotter stuff than most of the antiques he sells .
27 Ah , that difficult , aristocratic , fastidious tomato , what 's the betting that quite a few mouths would go for it were it on offer ?
28 Maggie blushed , aware that quite a few men were looking at her now .
29 The result is that it is very complex ; in addition , I must note that quite a few words are given stress patterns that I do not feel are acceptable in present-day English .
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