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

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1 With a few words a woman can give meaning to a whole day 's struggle , and a man will be very grateful .
2 First , there is the question of condition : with a few exceptions the books listed have their entire life in front of them , certainly hundreds of years , and only a few are even what the booksellers would call ‘ reading copies ’ .
3 The linguist Charles Li , writing in his introduction to a highly speculative volume on the mechanisms of syntactic change ( Li 1977 ) , claims that with a few exceptions the only documented types of word order changes that are not due to language contact are SOV to ( VSO ) to SVO .
4 However , the altitude range is only a few kilometres , and therefore with a few exceptions the major condensate on view may be ammonia in all regions .
5 With a few exceptions the survey has been the dominant methodology adopted .
6 With a few exceptions the genera have the following characters in common :
7 Home was a little nearer , and with every few miles the countryside grew a little uglier .
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