Example sentences of "by [art] few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others would be borne by the few feminists and freaks who preferred girls , for the whole thing would be voluntary ; no compulsion would be needed ; PopCon 's research had been thorough . |
| 2 | Having entered the soft systems world as an untrained novice some years ago , and endeavoured to apply the theories to problem situations within my normal sphere of activity , aided only by the few textbooks that were then on the market and occasional contact with other exponents of the approach , I am keenly aware of the difficulties that some practitioners may have , not only with understanding the principles but also with putting them into practice . |
| 3 | In Lo stadio di Wimbledon , the young researcher is drawn in search of his elusive quarry by the few traces that remain : the occasional photograph ; a few letters and other writings ; the memories of surviving contemporaries . |
| 4 | At Monza , he beat Jochen Rindt by a few feet and the championship was his , even though he did not win another race that season . |
| 5 | In the end , it was much easier than she had thought to push the silver door open by a few inches and to stand listening , trying to see , trying to hear , trying to feel the lingering dark presence . |
| 6 | The proponents of such outrageous plans were easily muzzled and isolated by the police and military authorities , but localized , ‘ patriotic ’ sympathies for some kind of regional autonomy continued to be cherished by a few individuals and groupings until the collapse of tsarist authority and the ensuing chaos of revolution and civil war created conditions in which the adherents of Siberian independence could now openly press their case and join in the bitter , fratricidal struggle of contending political and nationalist forces which raged across the country 's huge expanses between 1917 and 1922 . |