Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [adv] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under these circumstances , attempting even an interim assessment of just a few facets of change may appear premature ( not to mention hubristic ) . |
| 2 | Go , for example , to a meeting of the European Space Agency and the place will be crawling with European technical journalists with only a few desultory Brits , as often as not from the show-biz pages . |
| 3 | When paths are short , every rule on the path will gain an improved weight after just a few searches , and for a good rule , the gain in weight will be significant even if the rule is first on the path . |
| 4 | Guidelines have been discovered beneath British mosaics on only a few occasions : the author knows of only two unequivocal examples — the painted lines on the penultimate layer of mortar of the mosaic from building XIII , Beeches Road , Cirencester ( Neal 1981 , no. 26 ) , and the scored circle of the fragmentary mosaic above the Charioteer pavement at Rudston ( Smith 1976 , 6 ) — although , in wall painting such practices were also known ( plaster on display , Jewry Wall Museum ) . |
| 5 | At present , the executive takes decisions to release some murderers after only a few years and to keep others in prison for extremely long periods . |
| 6 | Bernard the chamberlain held his high office for only a few months , in 829 – 30 . |
| 7 | Moreover , few families can have such secure or cheap fuel supplies today as those who can obtain their annual needs from only a few days work spent cutting , drying , hauling and stacking peat . |
| 8 | Inside sources claim that Cobain is devastated by the revelations , and the possibility that Nirvana may cancel their appearance at Reading Festival is very real , given that the band were prepared to scrap their jubilant homecoming show at just a few days ' notice . |
| 9 | Inspection of the annal canal showed protruding faecal material in only a few patients . |
| 10 | She knew with total certainty that her imagination had n't been playing tricks , and that it was the second time in only a few minutes that she 'd heard those precise words . |
| 11 | A quick look at just a few areas of today 's public relations work confirms that prediction : |
| 12 | We will try to illustrate these possibilities with just a few examples , though it is naturally impossible to cover the subject adequately in a short space . |
| 13 | The Standing Orders of the Houses are such , however , that no mere eccentric has much chance of disturbing the parliamentary calm for even a few seconds . |
| 14 | This document provides a brief account of just a few of the important discoveries and medical advances which have been achieved as a result of such work , discoveries and advances which have benefited animals as well as people . |
| 15 | On an arable farm with only a few cattle kept to make manure , little provision would be made for these animals , but there would be one or more barns , stables and shelters for carts . |
| 16 | Certainly in that plain , square classroom there would be bright , quick minds behind not a few of those dirty faces , and budding abilities , potential , which she — with so much leisure and ease and money — could surely discover ? |
| 17 | A poll showed that Mr Da Silva won it , burying the myth that as an ex-factory worker with only a few years schooling he is unqualified for the presidency . |
| 18 | Erm yeah , we had a nodding acquaintance with quite a few of them , and I think they they were aware of who we were . |
| 19 | WADING THROUGH mud or swimming through a cold ravine with just a few oatcakes and nuts to keep you going is not very one 's cup of tea , but for six Risley lads it was fun . |
| 20 | In all this time Kiev itself was in the hands of the short-lived Ukrainian Republic for only a few months . |
| 21 | ‘ Come on , ’ Ace yelled , willing the motors to sacrifice their entire future lifetimes of useful work for just a few more horsepower now — and with a grinding , tearing , roaring noise the platform cracked , buckled , and was ripped from the side of the building . |
| 22 | The new charters were likely to have been written in the royal chancery rather than by their recipients , permitting greater uniformity , a more dispositive note , and the regular appearance of only a few royal officials as witnesses . |
| 23 | Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils . |
| 24 | If he could have evaded meeting the poor man for even a few days , this squabble over the saint 's bones would have been settled , one way or another , and Herluin would have been off on his travels , and taken Tutilo with him . |
| 25 | The daily body rhythms are timed similarly in different individuals , and in the same individual on different days , with regular differences of only a few hours between the timing of , say , the body temperature rhythm in ‘ larks ’ and ‘ owls ’ , for example . |
| 26 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 27 | For instance , one could have a form in which special interludes have a natural place such as : There are of course many variants of such schemes , suitable for use in single-movement works of 20-minute duration down to short movements of only a few minutes . |
| 28 | However , a massive compression can be achieved by creating a relatively short code of just a few bytes which effectively tells the computer that ‘ the next 400,000 bytes will be blue ’ . |
| 29 | Look at plants from all angles to determine how they can be used — maybe you could remove the petals and make a smaller flower with just a few of them ? |
| 30 | really a continuous , strongish wind to blow in one direction for quite a few hours . |