Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luke smiled again , reaching across the few inches of space Fran had managed to leave between them to catch her hand and raise it to his lips as he pressed a lovingly tender kiss to her fingertips . |
| 2 | Below and above him were overhangs ; he had lost all his equipment ; the few inches of rock beneath his feet threatened to crumble away ; a blizzard tore at him constantly ; his situation was entirely hopeless . |
| 3 | In one of the few studies of evacuation behaviour after a non-nuclear hazard event Liverman and Wilson ( 1981 ) give weight to this argument . |
| 4 | This section first compares prevalence in Wirral with the few studies of rates of opioid use in other parts of the UK , and then turns to an examination of the characteristics of opioid users in different areas . |
| 5 | Although she did not even turn to look at him , a delicious warmth began to spread through her inert form — as though some electrical force was quietly pulsing across the few feet of water separating their bodies . |
| 6 | Then he turned the few feet to Creggan 's cage and stared up to where Creggan had taken stance on the bare branch of wood that hung across his cage . |
| 7 | His podgy , clean-nailed fingers locked together and formed a vaulted shrine over the few pages of notes that contained my Mother 's life . |
| 8 | Observation of zoo animals and the few accounts from naturalists in the field suggest they are a fairly stormy procedure , consisting of mock chases , vicious swipes of the female 's paw as well as obvious kisses and caresses . |
| 9 | ‘ You must be one of the few friends of Gamal that I do n't know . ’ |
| 10 | This willingness to forgive past wrongs is one of the few signs of hope for this benighted province ; but it is not enough to bring peace . |
| 11 | However , even when the dinner was over , their ‘ guests ’ showed no sign of leaving , at which point the Emperor began to pull on the ends of his moustache — one of the few signs of irritation he ever allowed himself . |
| 12 | One of the few signs of encouragement to emerge from the reported cases considered here is that some current employee inventors can not easily be ‘ bought off ’ by employers anxious to avoid compensation claims . |
| 13 | United Biscuits was one of the few fallers after confirmation that it had sold its Terry 's chocolate division to Kraft of the U.S. in a deal worth £220 million . |
| 14 | Nor had the sudden coolness between himself and Mrs J. Roscoe escaped most of the other tourists ; indeed , this development was proving one of the few topics of conversation as the coach accelerated along the dual carriageway towards Woodstock . |
| 15 | Some tests were also made with the few boxes of plants available at this time . |
| 16 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 17 | Nowadays , struggling on in the name of Islamic socialism , Algeria is a place of austerity , one of the few countries on earth where you ca n't get Coca-Cola . |
| 18 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
| 19 | Certainly it is one of the few areas of growth : between 1985 and 1990 the advertising spend in Britain grew 75 per cent , but the spend on direct mail grew 101 per cent . |
| 20 | Firstly , the altitude and harsh weather in the winter meant Teesdale was not good for tree regeneration , so it is one of the few areas in England and Wales which never became deeply forested . |
| 21 | Shetland is one of the few areas in Britain which remains free of feral mink . |
| 22 | It was easily accessible from the Awash railway station and was one of the few areas in Abyssinia where wild animals survived in any number . |
| 23 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 24 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 25 | In an official statement , the BRE said that the few cases of rot it knew about were in every case directly attributable to rising damp or to rain penetration : |
| 26 | Livée played the spinet and was one of the few women in France to have mastered the analytical geometry of René Descartes . |
| 27 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 28 | Which has its own story : Jagger 's lips , Hendrix 's cock , Bolan 's gin , Prince 's tongue , Morrissey 's nipple ( one of the few options of indecency left , to revel , to splay oneself-as-object , play thing ) . |
| 29 | One of the few differences between beat policing and assembly-line work was that it contained a measure of unpredictability . |
| 30 | Visitors to Ingatestone , one of the few houses in Essex to boast original mullioned windows , should watch out for Siddy the green parrot , who flaps around the garden performing his imitation of a ringing telephone . |