Example sentences of "few [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that sounds obvious but even nine years after I designed it , I still have one of the very few adjustable-height lecterns in the UK . |
| 2 | There were a few curled-up sandwiches in a glass-fronted cabinet beneath the counter and a cheese roll that looked like it had been hewn from granite rather than baked with dough . |
| 3 | Bowing to the inevitable , Kenya started to remove the controls in 1988 and had eliminated them all by 1990 , except for a few agricultural products like maize . |
| 4 | The range of possibilities for the pace and form of change can be seen in a few specific industries in each of the three sectors : national resource processing , manufacturing and services . |
| 5 | In one of the few specific references to a member country , the G-7 statement said that the decline of the yen " was not contributing to the adjustment process " . |
| 6 | The effectiveness of metaphors of the type in which inanimates are treated as animate is shown in passages of narratorial description where they are deployed in a fully developed form , for example in a lengthy passage where the pre-Copernican view of the universe ( which still pervades the English language ) is exploited and combined with the peoples ' perception of animacy in all things : " The moon rose slowly and almost vertically into a sky where there was nothing but a few spilled traces of cloud . |
| 7 | And let's not forget a few failed attempts at making it in the movies along the way . |
| 8 | There were quite a few noted cheesemakers in Cotherstone at the time , including the Misses Hutchinson and the Hodgson family , and Aunt Hannah also used to make cheeses with the help of my Aunt Mary , who lived in Lartington , and showed them at Eggleston Show . |
| 9 | She is also one of the few Labour frontbenchers with ministerial experience , having been a junior Education Minister . |
| 10 | Not so confident is Nigel Beard ( Erith & Crayford ) , an ICI manager who is one of precious few Labour contenders with any experience of private enterprise . |
| 11 | Further study will also be given to the possibility of translocating a few Javan rhinos to other reserves within the species ' former range . |
| 12 | There are few spatial experiences in this country to rank beside that sudden sideways shift from the masculine world of military triumphs and smiling shepherdesses on the Doric frieze of the Royal Fort 's entrance hall into the amazing feminine world of willow-pattern fantasy that swirls up at an angle in the great stairwell . |
| 13 | Try taking a holiday ( I mean a real holiday ; do n't toss the mobile phone and a few unfinished reports into the suitcase with your flip-flops ) and see if you feel better away from it all . |
| 14 | In 1990 , the AfDB had funded a 190km road in nearby Sierra Leone , running through one of West Africa 's few surviving stretches of coastal rainforest . |
| 15 | Mr Wright is an accomplished narrative historian and has made very good use of the few surviving scraps of contemporary , or nearly contemporary , accounts written by members of the various civilisations . |
| 16 | Now the few surviving members of the once thriving club have just two rooms behind The Institute pub where they meet to play snooker and enjoy an all-male sanctuary . |
| 17 | One of the few surviving descriptions of the old house is by Dr. John Wallis who took a scientific interest in the extraordinary chimneys . |
| 18 | No signed or documented work by her is known and what can be assembled as an oeuvre emerges from the few surviving miniatures between 1545 and 1575 . |
| 19 | The few surviving reports of cases heard in King 's Bench during the period he was a justice ( 1295–1316 ) do not suggest that he made a major contribution to the work of the court . |
| 20 | He presents the stories of each community , first as they reacted to invasion and conquest , then as they were treated a couple of centuries later as white settlers took over their lands , and , finally , how the few surviving descendants of these once-proud people are faring today . |
| 21 | Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 22 | That item of news is of great interest to me , for if true , it must be one of the few surviving examples of how the church , since the earliest times , has absorbed Pagan shrines into Roman temples into Saxon churches , etc . |
| 23 | Planning officer Anthony McGreavey said : ‘ The chapel is one of the few surviving buildings of the first part of the 18th century in the town centre |
| 24 | Jill , charged to find the oldest building in town , located one of the few pre-earthquake buildings in downtown Jackson Square , part of the financial district . |
| 25 | Instead of the cafe or the restaurant that he 'd expected , he found a narrow shop with a few uncontroversial-looking videos in the window display and a more extensive and X-rated stock of tapes and magazines inside . |
| 26 | Well before noon , beside a small church whose roof sagged under clumps of grass and willow-herb , they came to the bridge over to Grandtully and looked across at the dense little settlement , lumpish houses made of undressed river boulders with brown smoke streaming through their heather thatch , hovels of branches littered through the trees , a few solid cottages with level roof-trees . |
| 27 | A few introductory words on the rules of English law will help to set the scene . |
| 28 | But unfortunately there are few descriptive accounts of people 's efforts to reduce the likelihood that an event will occur , perhaps because effective responses are self-evident , or because they are not easily assessed by investigators in that successful action will have removed the difficulty . |
| 29 | It had been a wet May with a few scarce hours of sunshine at the beginning of the month and little since , but today the grey skies that had hung over the land like a shroud had broken , and high white clumps of cloud were bowling swiftly across the blue sky betokening a day of good weather . |
| 30 | A few half-hearted attempts at brightening the place up with posters have been made by a succession of teachers , but it does n't really help because the huts suffer from terminal damp and the posters quickly go all brown and blotchy making the general appearance of the hut 's interior more , not less , gloomy . |