Example sentences of "[conj] at [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a difficulty which Mrs Thatcher , though far more able , intelligent and industrious than Kinnock , failed except at a few critical moments , to surmount . |
| 2 | The trees everywhere over-grow the road , so that it is totally impervious to the sun , except at a few places . |
| 3 | The list of honorary and corresponding members included gentlemen living in 30 English counties , and at a few places in Scotland and Wales . |
| 4 | Only in towns and at a few other places could trains going in opposite directions pass . |
| 5 | In some regions , the cable is split into several parallel strands , and at a few points around the margin ( typically two or three ) the continuity of the cable is broken , the actin distribution appears disorderly , and the wound front is irregular rather than smoothly curved ; some of these discontinuities may represent sites of stronger attachment to the substratum . |