Example sentences of "and [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband .
2 Daddy gone , Sambo gone , Mrs Dibdin gone — and the few relics we had left from the olden days all sold , and the house up for sale … ’
3 The sun shone with magisterial tranquillity and the few clouds kept their distance from it .
4 I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started .
5 Packs roam everywhere at will and the few towns have not ‘ Wares to police the whole countryside , so the farmers and herders are mostly left to fend for themselves and , as I said , the hunters are all but ruined .
6 ‘ Accuse ? ’ he asked softly , and the few inches separating them narrowed alarmingly .
7 No , each hitch was only temporary — and the few minutes of unplanned stillness was welcomed by photographers .
8 So that few minutes at the end is important for picking up these extra marks you 've been trying to throw away , okay , where you can do it , and the few minutes at the beginning is to look through and find that question wherever it was , that one on the last page .
9 Timbrel groups were almost unknown in Great Britain , and the few instruments around were certainly not played with the vigour and movement familiar to the Australians .
10 But the sun 's rays reflected wickedly off the intense blue waters of the lake , so it was from the small window of the launch that I — a different creature by far — watched the pyramid shape of Taquile drift by , and the few kilometres of Amantani come into view .
11 Culley was still ordering the information she 'd given him , and the few things Helen had said on the phone .
12 And the few shillings earned was more than welcome in those hard days .
13 Observation of zoo animals and the few accounts from naturalists in the field suggest they are a fairly stormy procedure , consisting of mock chases , vicious swipes of the female 's paw as well as obvious kisses and caresses .
14 The definition ‘ Bangladeshi ’ refers to infants whose mothers were born in Bangladesh , and the few mothers who were born or grew up in Britain .
15 The nurses and the few mothers who had managed to be available on Christmas Eve sang ragged and loud .
16 The leks are visited by the female ruffs ( called reeves ) , and the few males holding territories on the lek do nearly all the mating .
17 She could hardly hear them because of the din , and the few words and phrases that she did catch — ‘ tolerances to five thou ’ , ‘ cross-boring ’ , ‘ CNC machine ’ , ‘ indexes round ’ — meant nothing to her .
18 It 's quite an adventure being driven along the straight tree-lined roads in the morning and afternoon on our way to work , as the roads are full of bicycles , three or more abreast , ridden by identikit Chinese figures in blue jackets and Mao caps , and the few cars , lorries and buses blast their way through the sea of bicycles by liberal use of their horns .
19 The names of the borrowers indicate that this book must have belonged to the Oa school and the few addresses given were Glenastle , Stremnish and Kinnabus , would seem to confirm this .
20 The State Department appears to have been riven between ‘ Arabists ’ and the few analysts who , like Mr Teicher , considered that Israel might prove at least as valuable a strategic ally as Iran , Iraq or Saudi Arabia .
21 The observed correlation of lead in the blood with IQ is slight , and the few points of IQ apparently lost through lead uptake may seem negligible .
22 Cadfael stepped back to measure again the angle at which the body lay , and the few paces back along the path where the assailant must have been hidden .
23 Lord Denning and the few colleagues agreeing with him met with little success in either case .
24 There was little furniture , for most of that was stored in Switzerland , and the few pieces that remained had been damaged beyond repair .
25 A wild idea occurred to him — why did n't he just get his spare shirts and the few pieces that he 'd picked up while he 'd been staying here , throw them all into a bag , and jump on a train or a bus to present himself on their doorstep ?
26 Furbush ( 1989 ) used data for five-minute intervals on the S&P500 index for 14 , 15 , 16 , 19 and 20 October 1987 — the period of the stock market crash and the few days just before .
27 We still use the old byre for milking and the few cows I keep do n't call for a new mechanical milker .
28 By nightfall the whole city was burning and the few survivors were fleeing southwards towards Altdorf .
29 It was more than two decades since he had taken offence at the term-a term used all the while in court , where the Han were predominant and the few Caucasians treated as honorary Han — yet here , in the Domain , he felt the words incongruous , almost — surprisingly — insulting .
30 Near one of the posts , a hammer and a few nails had been left behind .
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