Example sentences of "[adj] few " in BNC.

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31 Working quantities of organic material into the top few inches will markedly improve some plants ' performance .
32 It was lightly teased into the top few inches of soil , after rain , to top up the fertility and to ensure that there are banked reserves to see crops through their long winter haul .
33 Attaching carpet piercing spikes to the base , and making sure the system pierces the top few millimetres of wood below the carpet adds further to security .
34 Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out .
35 Persistent surface weedkillers remain active in the top few centimetres of the soil , killing new weeds as they germinate , yet they do not harm most established roses , shrubs and trees , whose roots are well below the surface .
36 For example , there is enough material in a glass of water to run a car for ten years , enough in the top few centimetres of Lake Erie to power New York State for a similar time and enough in the oceans to keep us going indefinitely .
37 A typical microcomputer system therefore consists of a microprocessor chip , one or more ROM chips , one or more RAM chips ( to hold variable data ) , and a further chip to decode the top few bits of the 16-bit address coming from the microprocessor , in order to direct it to the appropriate store chip .
38 Instructions are required to jump to a specified store location conditional on the value in the top element of the stack ( which may be removed by the jump instruction ) ; an example is Jump to location A if top of stack is positive On the KDF9 computer various stack manipulation instructions were provided , such as to duplicate or erase the top element or to rearrange the top few elements .
39 The top few levels of such a classification would go
40 Local hierarchy did not always read off academic excellence as the desired end of local practice , so that there was less concern in these rural areas for the fate of the top few than for that of the majority .
41 Though still dressed , he had removed his jacket and tie , and the top few buttons of his shirt were undone .
42 He undid his tie so that it hung loose around his neck and unfastened the top few buttons on his shirt .
43 yeah and you should turn the top few inches over and there was what he called the
44 Yeap Parker , hey there 's a good boy , sorry open the exciting few days when our witness , two fellows who broke in at
45 Scunthorpe 's faithful few in a crowd of 7,682 had huddled on the terraces like penguins on an ice floe as the dankness seeped down the Pennine valleys .
46 If you are one of the faithful few who keep your machine set up and working during the summer you can have a wonderful time trying out patterns and colour schemes in between knitting those delightful little summer tops .
47 Ideas for those knitters , but also some for the faithful few who keep on knitting .
48 On Saturdays we turn out in our yellow and black strip , To the chantin' of the faithful few down at ‘ The Tip ’ .
49 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 .
50 The size of the audience did n't increase noticeably , but the faithful few who did turn up seemed appreciative .
51 One of he most heartening things about our Christian Aid effort is the continuity — the fact that the same faithful few gladly play the same parts each succeeding year — and promise to be there next year too .
52 A diminishing few of us will continue to come out of sheer love but many will not , especially the young .
53 However , I 've just spent an interesting few minutes with my nose in line with the needles , gingerly winding the transfer carriage along with the ribber on half pitch — all in the interests of this article you understand , while hoping I would n't damage the transfer needle !
54 Those will be the main highlights of an interesting few days .
55 When the Liberation came , the French dealt with the open collaborators in a brutal few weeks of epuration — a purge in which some innocents suffered .
56 A committee of three ministers — Roger Freeman ( transport ) , Francis Maude ( Treasury ) and John Redwood ( trade and industry ) — has been working on the railway sell-off ; and the group drafting the Tory election manifesto has been trying to distil the trio 's ideas into an appetising few paragraphs .
57 There were a funny few minutes about John Major 's working class credentials but like Mills the rest of the act was a bit hackneyed .
58 You 'll certainly have an unpleasant few minutes
59 Judge Angus Stroyan QC said : ‘ This was no doubt an extremely unpleasant few seconds for the girl but really no more than a drunken antic .
60 A brave few are calling , quietly , for the old president to go .
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