Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily the last few miles are downhill into Barnsley . ’ |
| 2 | His plight was clearly desperate ; the slightest motion could hurtle him down the remaining few yards of slope and over the lip into the quarry . |
| 3 | Slowed by the blossoming pain in his injured leg , he supported himself with a hand on the rough stone wall and stumbled down the remaining few steps . |
| 4 | Even if the pilot is fully aware of being close to the stall , he will instinctively hold off until the glider stalls down the last few feet rather than fly into obstructions at speed . |
| 5 | This caused me to run out of aft trim i.e. I could n't take my hands off — and she did n't feel quite so rock-like and stable coming down the last few hundred feet , but the resulting touchdown was smoother and shorter . |
| 6 | Corridors that sloped down more and more steeply , so that they had to sit and shuffle down the last few metres . |
| 7 | Hurriedly , she jotted down the last few words , and started back out , but it was too late . |
| 8 | Her colleagues said she came down the last few hundred feet singing Flower of Scotland with her instructor . |
| 9 | Erm having said that though I think that erm perhaps the next few great achievements were perhaps more revolutionary , really , erm because they were s now , he 's now talking about overthrowing erm the feudal rule of local tyrants erm overthrowing the armed forces of the landlords , overthrowing the political power of the county magistrate and ov this one 's possibly the most important anti-revolution restorationist one I think probably , the overthrowing of clan authority of the ancestral temples and the clan elders . |
| 10 | Well obviously the last few weeks the eastern Mediterranean has been hit very badly erm but even as from yesterday places like Cyprus are starting to come back very quickly . |
| 11 | Even if memory is limited , with only the odd few 100 K's of free RAM spare , caching makes a big difference to the speed at which you can work . |
| 12 | Those whose entitlement is established , however , will find that not only the first few pounds of some other form of income they have may be disregarded , but the value of a house they own or occupy is not counted as part of their income . |
| 13 | The single-cell layer of the wall will lie in such a way that it is in contact with the mother 's blood supply , burrowing into the capillaries ( thread-like blood vessels ) to obtain nutrition via the mother 's blood — only the first few days ' nutrition comes from within the blastocyst itself . |
| 14 | The tentacle pores are large , open , only the first few may have tentacle scales which are usually thin and spine-like . |
| 15 | Only the first few of these reported errors are required to trace the source of the error ; remaining errors tend to be redundant . |
| 16 | Benefits of RDS as a source of traffic information have penetrated the consciousness of only the relative few making top-of-the-range car-radio purchases . |
| 17 | Only the special few are eligible as wives . |
| 18 | The bomb had been a direct hit and only the last few dwellings had still been standing afterwards . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's as if only the last few hours of my life were real . |
| 20 | She caught only the last few words : ‘ the sooner this dangerous person is apprehended the better ’ , and switched off in frustration . |
| 21 | Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out . |
| 22 | An in that case , now certain can the IRB be that admission to those World Cup matches will not only be freely available to , but will be as readily affordable , by the majority of South Africans , and not necessarily only the privileged few ? |
| 23 | The glazed window which came about almost 2,000 year s ago was a luxury which only the privileged few enjoyed . |
| 24 | Only the priveleged few will know what you 're talking about : - ) . |
| 25 | Sickness rose , vying with the pain , as she found herself piecing together the last few hours of Mark 's life . |
| 26 | They 're now desperatly trying to piece together the last few hours of her life . |
| 27 | The Legendre functions of integer order are well known , but it may still be appropriate to note just the first few . |
| 28 | The actors , standing in brightness , see just the first few |
| 29 | These girls came down in special trains : it was n't just the odd few . |
| 30 | ‘ The chairman and committee 's role is to provide central focus and support , to encourage ideas and initiatives from everyone , not just the elected few , ’ she said . |