Example sentences of "the [adj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The full operating costs of the British presence in the Gulf arising from the response to Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait were over £4,000,000 a day by the end of January , with the total such costs by then amounting to over £1,250 million ( plus equipment lost and ammunition consumed in operations amounting to nearly £200,000,000 ) . |
| 2 | Mind you , I am under few illusions : it is probably boredom in the short-term few months job I have found , and worry as it is , in real terms , a lot less than half my old salary . |
| 3 | The odd few pounds yes . |
| 4 | It is a completely unfounded fear , but even if there were the odd few cases of people refusing to rent out a room in their home because , in their ignorance , they felt that , as landlords , they would be penalised , are we seriously to argue that we should deny the discount to the other 7 million people ? |
| 5 | All Dave 's flavours were done apart from the odd few extras , |
| 6 | The conference adjourned on Nov. 2 for the Spanish All Souls public holiday , and resumed the next day for bilateral talks . |
| 7 | She blinked twice , taking the risk of missing the right few seconds while her eyes were shut . |
| 8 | He had no time for the over-solicitous kind of welfare service which consists largely of unnecessarily doing for the deaf those things which , given a lead , they can well do for themselves . |
| 9 | Perhaps the snake came through the air-vent many times before it killed Julia . |
| 10 | The Employment Secretary , Gillian Shepherd , said that the new measures gave the unemployed more ways to use their time constructively . |
| 11 | Nearing the concluding few scenes , Mark Antony provides a remarkably relevant passage showing just how things are not as they first seem to be . |
| 12 | Never be tempted to dig so deep that you bring up raw clay , but work assiduously on the top few inches only , gradually improving the soil deeper each year . |
| 13 | Working quantities of organic material into the top few inches will markedly improve some plants ' performance . |
| 14 | It was lightly teased into the top few inches of soil , after rain , to top up the fertility and to ensure that there are banked reserves to see crops through their long winter haul . |
| 15 | Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out . |
| 16 | yeah and you should turn the top few inches over and there was what he called the |
| 17 | Persistent surface weedkillers remain active in the top few centimetres of the soil , killing new weeds as they germinate , yet they do not harm most established roses , shrubs and trees , whose roots are well below the surface . |
| 18 | For example , there is enough material in a glass of water to run a car for ten years , enough in the top few centimetres of Lake Erie to power New York State for a similar time and enough in the oceans to keep us going indefinitely . |
| 19 | Instructions are required to jump to a specified store location conditional on the value in the top element of the stack ( which may be removed by the jump instruction ) ; an example is Jump to location A if top of stack is positive On the KDF9 computer various stack manipulation instructions were provided , such as to duplicate or erase the top element or to rearrange the top few elements . |
| 20 | A typical microcomputer system therefore consists of a microprocessor chip , one or more ROM chips , one or more RAM chips ( to hold variable data ) , and a further chip to decode the top few bits of the 16-bit address coming from the microprocessor , in order to direct it to the appropriate store chip . |
| 21 | The top few levels of such a classification would go |
| 22 | Attaching carpet piercing spikes to the base , and making sure the system pierces the top few millimetres of wood below the carpet adds further to security . |
| 23 | Though still dressed , he had removed his jacket and tie , and the top few buttons of his shirt were undone . |
| 24 | He undid his tie so that it hung loose around his neck and unfastened the top few buttons on his shirt . |
| 25 | Yeap Parker , hey there 's a good boy , sorry open the exciting few days when our witness , two fellows who broke in at |
| 26 | The 15-year-old 2nd Dan from Marske Lane , Bishopsgarth , Stockton , is the reigning Northern champion of the British All Stars Karate Association and a British Amateur Martial Arts Association squad member . |
| 27 | The French several times reneged on their pledges of future autonomy for the Lebanese . |
| 28 | Hauling in four feet of slack , and highly tense because of the unaccustomed big crag environment , I clawed across the remaining few feet to gain a sloping stance at the base of the imposing corner . |
| 29 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 30 | ‘ Use the remaining few weeks to say your goodbyes and to find another job , ’ he had said . |