Example sentences of "from the [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It finds these approximate solutions by linear interpolation from the first few genuine observations . |
| 2 | This algorithm is incremental because it creates clusters from the first few data , and these early clusters can be used at once , even though they may be improved during later learning . |
| 3 | Only good thing was Dorigo ( apart from the first few minutes ) who played brill . |
| 4 | And there certainly had been a great deal of stress and tension — almost from the first few weeks following their wedding : Lady Nancy Wyndham 's total opposition to their marriage ; her own mother 's sudden untimely death , followed by her father 's long-drawn-out and eventually terminal illness ; the total immersion of Ross in his business affairs , and — the final catalyst — the affair between Ross and his personal assistant , Marissa Kenton . |
| 5 | All Dave 's flavours were done apart from the odd few extras , |
| 6 | From the following few recipes it is easy to see that there was never any one method of making English fruit creams and fools , and that over the past three centuries the two have fused . |
| 7 | Mao Zedong had apparently selected his successor , Hua Guofeng , from the favoured few still eligible for political power . |
| 8 | ‘ If we have learned anything from the last few years , it is that availability is the main occasion and the trigger for experimentation among the young . ’ |
| 9 | I have just read the article on the Cessna 172 in the July Pilot and I quote — spasmodically — from the last few paragraphs of p22 : |
| 10 | Chris Smith , Labour 's Shadow Environment Secretary believed the country 's problem came not from the last few weeks , but the previous 13 years . |
| 11 | Despite the valiant cries of ‘ We are the Bencey Boys ’ from the faithful few , we were subjected to jeers from the Alborne crowd as fighting broke out between the Athletico players on their way back to the dressing room . |
| 12 | Giving out eve-of-poll leaflets at the tube station , I get the same subliminal message as from the past few nights ' TV : increasingly confident Tories , and puzzled , frustrated socialists . |