Example sentences of "to [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He smiled and she pulled her robe tightly round her ; the bathroom that had seemed quite large had shrunk to the few feet between them . |
2 | So he sat still and let her talk , murmuring answers to the few questions she asked him , trying to memorize details that might be important . |
3 | Further on the Brook splits , and one tributary leads to the few remnants of what was Upper Ley Mill . |
4 | From Poolewe , a narrow road follows the coast to the headland west of Loch Ewe but is of interest only to the few residents alongside it , and visitors invariably continue on the A.832 to Gairloch , this road also having been brought up to modern standards . |
5 | If , in addition to the few notes which I have taken the liberty of enclosing , you feel that you need any advice , then please ask for it . |
6 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
7 | Its success is almost invariably limited to the few cases where free advice enables a businessman to make immediate cost savings . |
8 | Similarly , in 3 the time span which is indicated by " now " is limited to the few seconds immediately following the utterance , whereas in 4 the reference of " now " extends well before and after the time of utterance . |
9 | Finally the road turns away and makes a long and rough descent , with Loch Hourn dramatically in view ahead , to the few buildings of Kinlochhourn where there is life but no sign of it . |
10 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
11 | The electronic cameras captured the action , and powerful transmitters beamed the signals directly to the few homes in Britain equipped with television receivers . |
12 | A travel company from Thailand has contacted the People 's Committee about the possibility of bringing in tourists , and the governor of the province , An He , is keen to talk to the few foreigners who pass through about his hypothetical Riviera . |
13 | Should we listen to the few objections of the few people affected ? |
14 | And despite their higher incomes , they rarely become rich because their activities are limited to the few months during the year when the climate is favourable for construction work . |
15 | City teachers , even the most experienced , are so accustomed to mobility , access to transport and social competence in getting around that they are continually surprised to find that so many of the children they teach lead lives confined to a few streets . |
16 | Mr Heath was a directive leader of the Cabinet but confined , his interest to a few areas ( EEC , incomes policy , and Northern Ireland ) . |
17 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
18 | Once again they were relatively complex to use and whilst smaller and faster still restricted the user to a few faces and sizes at any one time . |
19 | Cannons are dangerous if sometimes unpredictable weapons whose manufacture is limited to a few groups of human and Dwarf experts . |
20 | For common igneous minerals , critical concentrations are very small ( typically 0.002–0.03wt% ) and layers of the order of centimetres to a few metres thick will result . |
21 | On moderately dry ground , for example along the coast of Antarctica , unsorted polygons are convex shapes in the ground up to a few metres across , ringed by a network of furrows that mark the positions of persistent cracks ( Figure 3.8 ) . |
22 | They succeed by a greater division of labour , with most volunteers carrying responsibility for generalist advice while referring complex work to a few specialists . |
23 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |
24 | Your answers to a few questions — in exchange for my silence . ’ |
25 | Members of the GWR Preservation Society will learn with particular interest that w.e.f. 21st October the world-famous Torbsy Express will be making a nostalgic return visit to a few stretches of its old track , and will first be housed for three weeks in Railway Shed 4 at Plymouth . |
26 | The entire coastal fringe from Chilaw south to a few kilometres into Hambantota district was the most densely populated part of the island . |
27 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
28 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
29 | One possibility is to choose two or three at a time , as above , and then go on to a few others . |
30 | One of the serious limitations is the total interaction time with the microwaves , limited to a few milliseconds by the speed of the atomic beam and by the separation of the two Ramsey regions . |