Example sentences of "its [noun] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IMF is a quasi-academic and apolitical organisation and its advice is based on its assessment of a few key economic ratios . |
| 2 | There is no such thing , mind you , as private property for nine tenths of the population : its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence for those nine tenths . |
| 3 | Apart from the start state , which must be presented in full , any state can be described as its parent plus a few more details . |
| 4 | Ratners does most of its business in the few short weeks before Christmas . |
| 5 | Occasionally the sun would appear from behind a roof-top , and she would feel its warmth for a few seconds . |
| 6 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 7 | The LEA 's detachment and its knowledge of a few dozen ( or even a few hundred ) other institutions could be of great value . |
| 8 | The emergence of the SCCs and the ASEA , for example , has been shown to have arisen from the work of the COS , and to have copied its basic committee structure , together with its use of a few paid organizers supervising a large number of volunteers . |
| 9 | A soaking bumblebee crawled over a thistle-bloom , vibrated its wings for a few seconds and then flew away down the field . |
| 10 | Moreover , the committee , to be commended for having conducted its extensive researches and drawn its conclusions within a few months , has the advantage of immediacy over the Clark and Palmer committees , which sat over so long a period , in a rapidly changing environment , that eventually no one who was still able to recall the original brief was sure whether it was still relevant to the prevailing situation . |
| 11 | In the meantime , archery had retained its appeal in a few places around the country , two of them being the neighbouring Ayrshire towns of Irvine and Kilwinning , in both of which contests were held annually . |