Example sentences of "more [conj] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 2 | It is a long list , but the SPSSX stepwise procedure seldom selected more than a few predictors as having a significant influence upon perceptions . |
| 3 | I was obsessed by new clothes to the extent that I 'd lost interest in something if it was more than a few hours old . |
| 4 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 5 | Few things are more poignant than a holiday romance , and we 're very happy to say that over the years we 've brought more than a few couples together who are now living happily every after . |
| 6 | Thus the warming and the movement of water help to give rise to climate , which is immensely complex ; and the day-to-day fluctuations which are known as ‘ weather ’ are extraordinarily difficult to predict in detail , more than a few hours ahead . |
| 7 | First , only a handful of people have spent more than a few weeks at a time in space . |
| 8 | For instance , through most of history , and in most parts of the world ( though not , as it happens , in our modern world ) , individual humans have seldom strayed more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 9 | I get up fairly early , as you know , so he would n't be in it more than a few hours . ’ |
| 10 | by no means all rhyolite lavas are associated with obsidian — the majority are not — and , as one goes further back through the geological record , obsidian becomes progressively more and more scarce , due to devitrification , and none at all is found in rocks more than a few million years old . |
| 11 | While long-standing fans either relished it or waited patiently for them to return to straightforward indie pop , more than a few older folk fans switched on the enigma of The Wedding Present . |
| 12 | One obvious problem , with implications for any GIS input , is that the effects are highly localized , with little measurable field effect more than a few dozen metres away from the route centre-lines . |
| 13 | Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old . |
| 14 | Two rules must be obeyed when exploiting them : local cooling , close to the heat pump or its heat exchanger , must be no faster than heat can flow in from the surroundings ; and the source temperature must not be lowered more than a few degrees below its undisturbed level . |
| 15 | With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home . |
| 16 | However , we had n't gone more than a few yards when she stopped and turned around . |
| 17 | Anyone with a slightly cynical bent would have initial difficulty being convinced by the Inspirals ' contentment with their shrunken market — as someone who last saw the Inspirals dwarfed by a wealth of pyrotechnics and gargantuan lighting at Reading , your correspondent can only assert the view that their new scaled-down persona does them more than a few favours . |
| 18 | Doyle , a passionate man who says pretty much what he thinks , has upset more than a few with his assessments . |
| 19 | On the other hand , more than a few civilians were sloppy and needed to smarten up a bit . |
| 20 | Though in this form the list looks a long one , it must be remembered that only a limited number of schools have introduced more than a few changes . |
| 21 | External Ba 2+ was left out so that uptake would not depolarize the cell more than a few mV from its -90mV resting potential . |
| 22 | He was n't expecting the jarring shock that shot through his other arm but the shortness of the flex prevented him from pulling it more than a few inches off the table . |
| 23 | These are purely tourist attractions these days ; the drivers are all over sixty , and taking you more than a few yards could prove fatal . |
| 24 | Indeed , until he was summoned home from King 's College , Cambridge , in 1698 , after the death of his elder brother , Walpole had rarely spent more than a few weeks at his Norfolk home in any year since he was 6.17 Not all families , however , sent their children away from home so early , or for so long . |
| 25 | He was born prosperous and died rich , but he never owned more than a few acres around his house . |
| 26 | Half of one ear was missing , and his nose had obviously been broken more than a few times . |
| 27 | I never heard his wife or son exchange more than a few words with him . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , most of the research conducted so far has n't produced more than a few tentative generalizations . |
| 29 | Jonah Barrington , Britain 's squash-rackets hall-of-famer , has come up against the Pakistan sportsman 's competitive edge more than a few times down the years in that windowless torture-chamber which can be a squash court . |
| 30 | Erm but that you know that that did n't carry on much more than a few days after the the initial disturbances . |