Example sentences of "[prep] just [art] few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are no longer talking about a safety net for just a few young people ’ , said Roger Singleton , Barnardo 's senior director . |
| 2 | But today , with more time at her disposal , she could no longer resist the adventure , and in a moment she was out of her own plain black Sunday dress , with its detachable white collar and cuffs , and into the sumptuous white silk which had clothed her dead mother once and for just a few short hours . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | I was quite pleased to be back home but I missed the excitement of the trips and wanted to go back for just a few more days . |
| 5 | Borg , who split with 41-year-old Loredana earlier this year , is now playing tennis tournaments for the over-35s for purses of just a few thousand pounds . |
| 6 | But if building rocky edifices is not your style then you can keep them in a tank with just a few normal caves ( or flowerpots ) ( Lanistes shells being regrettably unavailable to hobbyists ) . |
| 7 | A simple matt black sweater , with just a few tiny red glass beads or minute sequins scattered over it , would look lovely in movement and gorgeous to wear on Christmas Day . |
| 8 | And with the Arc such an established part of the racing scene , Paris will be bursting with Britons this weekend , with just a few hundred going on a punting pilgrimage to Dublin . |
| 9 | With just a few honourable exceptions , congressmen fawn over him whenever he comes to town . |
| 10 | The break-up of the coalition and Churchill 's formation of a ‘ caretaker ’ government , consisting largely of his Conservative supporters together with just a few non-party men , followed almost at once . |
| 11 | In America , wind is already being used by small communities with just a few well-designed windmills to supply all their power needs . |
| 12 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 13 | There was no rain overnight so that the ground er is good with just a few soft places . |
| 14 | With just a few basic materials , I now have paintings hanging on walls in relatives homes . |
| 15 | Enoch Powell , who needed nobody to tell him that he could n't win ( he knew that perfectly well ) , was not the object of anything that could properly be called a campaign : he was a loner with just a few devoted friends behind him . |
| 16 | They are narrative , and tell us of a situation , or prepare us for some significant message : Once having told us the story , set the mood , and prepared us for the shout of a choir of angels , Handel could paint a triumphant musical fresco with just a few poetic words : |
| 17 | In a natural arrangement use mainly medium size headed flowers with just a few large heads |
| 18 | B. Some towns have attracted more people than others , so there is a hierarchy of sizes , with just a few large towns and many smaller ones . |
| 19 | The tonal range is extensive from just a few different grades . |
| 20 | The tonal range is extensive from just a few different grades . |
| 21 | Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish . |
| 22 | In just a few short years the throwline has become standard equipment for white water paddlers . |
| 23 | In just a few short years , the average hospital stay after a baby has dropped from eight to ten days in 1982 , to just three to four in 1989 . |
| 24 | Also it is changing from having tools made in many small workshops all over the country , to having machines made in just a few large factories . |
| 25 | So he appeased them , placated them , told them they had done brilliantly and would all be very rich men in just a few more days . |
| 26 | Because production is a continuous process of reinvention , entrepreneurial efforts are focused on many thousands of small ideas rather than on just a few big ones . |
| 27 | They are particularly concerned about the bobcat which is already under intense pressure — about 100 000 are now trapped annually compared to just a few thousand two decades ago . |
| 28 | Management can argue that the plant has been losing money : the unions can point to their ( not always peaceable ) acceptance of previous cost-cutting , which has reduced manning to just a few hundred from the thousands once employed there . |
| 29 | Recent demonstrations show it has a keyboard reduced to just a few large buttons and a flip-up 4-inch , backlit colour LCD screen . |
| 30 | Indeed , in the best of all possible media worlds , all rapes and sexual assaults would be committed by just a few sexual maniacs and the press could then help to orchestrate the national search against these declared aliens in our midst . |