Example sentences of "those [adj] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does n't sound much , but if we ignored those extra few hours , after four years our calendar year would be a whole day ahead of the solar year . |
| 2 | In those fearful few moments hands clutched good-luck charms and lips moved in unashamed prayer , until the clunk of the undercarriage as it folded into the belly of the aircraft told them they had made it . |
| 3 | Maybe she was being foolish in placing so much importance on those brief few words she- and Billy had exchanged in the park . |
| 4 | No longer would youth and its culture have such a power to affect society as it had had for those brief few years from 1963 to 1967 : although the sharp end of youth culture was confusing purchasing power with political power and demanding change , many of its constituents were caught by the freeze that , introduced the previous year , signified the end of the ten-year boom that had thrust youth into prominence . |
| 5 | t to disobey what John was just saying in those previous few verses . |
| 6 | But plenty of the money spent by the parties in those frantic few weeks of the election itself , particularly on newspaper advertisements , will be fresh funds — which has to be good news for the media and agencies . |
| 7 | But if , in spite of your precautions , a fire breaks out , a smoke alarm can give those precious few minutes of warning which increase the chances of you and your family getting out safely . |
| 8 | The Sleep-safe Smoke Alarm is designed to give you those precious few minutes in the event of fire , by detecting smoke from fires in their earliest stages and sounding a loud warning signal . |
| 9 | I spent those final few hours extravagantly , staying the night at the Strand Palace Hotel for ten shillings for bed , bathroom and a cooked breakfast thrown in , with sixpence extra for a haircut at the hotel barber shop — three times as much as the Underground fare of twopence from Paddington to Trafalgar Square , where a Nippy served me at Lyons ' Corner House with a sirloin steak for a shilling . |
| 10 | Maybe if I 'd been encouraged then to find pleasure and personal fulfilment instead of pain and resentment I could manage to beat the under-11s on those final few metres . |