Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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1 | The few states which actually measured what was happening to landfill capacity reported that it was increasing , in some cases because more waste was being diverted to recycling or waste-to-energy plants . |
2 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
3 | But there are quite a few contracts which are still temporary , most of them go to the end of June . |
4 | Those few authorities which do not at present have a policy on health education might care to consider the influence which this has on the development of school policy . |
5 | There were a few houses whose wrought-iron balconies were crammed with plants : great pots of geraniums , full and dark , the flowers looking down at me like tiny faces , intently . |
6 | Many have good sight , but there are a few forms which have lost their eyes , some of them living in the lightless world of caves . |
7 | There are very few artists whose genuine records attract prices which justify forgeries . |
8 | As early as 1910 , Mercereau had sent to Russia an exhibition of works by Gleizes , Metzinger and Le Fauconnier , and a few artists whose aims he felt to be similar . |
9 | The Royal children might even pass a few exams which is more than their expensively educated Mummies and Daddies managed . |
10 | If , in addition to the few notes which I have taken the liberty of enclosing , you feel that you need any advice , then please ask for it . |
11 | The chronology of the decline of the gold content ( % au ) can be established by analysing the few coins which bear the names of kings ( listed above ) and so can be dated . |
12 | It is delivered in the form of a few coins which bear the likeness of the last president , a pleasant utopian who retired of his own free will . |
13 | However , there have been rather few cases which have addressed at all directly the question of the legality of the use of nuclear weapons , and even fewer judgments touching on this . |
14 | Those few cases which are prosecuted fail to arouse media-indignation , except when it expresses disapproval for the way executives are very occasionally over-sanctioned ! |
15 | In fact , at each stage of the criminal justice process , there are only a few cases which get both widespread and sustained coverage in both the national and local press . |
16 | In order to understand the press reporting of rape trials we need to concentrate on the few cases which got enormous publicity in 1985 . |
17 | But how could I achieve in a few minutes what I had failed to accomplish after hours of trying ? |
18 | He said that in the last two years he had met very few institutions which had not cut back their system budgets following the 1987 crash in share prices in the stock market . |
19 | Thirdly , there are the relatively few institutions which have remained very largely monotechnic , concentrating on teacher education . |
20 | Information is one of the few products which the West can sell to the Far East . |
21 | The weakness in passenger traffic , which fell 8 p.c last year , and operating losses have not prevented the airline from launching the most successful expansion programme among European airlines so far , in a bid to be among the few groups which are expected to survive deregulation over the next few years . |
22 | And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero . |
23 | The Natural History and Antiquarian Society of Islay had a very few books which were kept in the school at Bowmore but most of them seem to have been lost . |
24 | The M forty not running too badly at the moment , although between junction two and junction seven there are a fair few roadworks which could hold you up throughout your journey . |
25 | What I would like to do with the financi financial commentary , is because it is , is an historic document , I would like to pull out a few plums which we can team brief . |
26 | Yes , and I have even added in a few pictures which have never been seen before . |
27 | A flow of records ensued , including a posthumous Sid Vicious album , Sid Sings , and sundry repackagings of those few songs which the group had actually recorded , wringing the cash cow dry , as Richard Branson later pointed out with some irony , ‘ in just the spirit of the Swindle Malcolm had always talked about ’ . |
28 | And apart from certain specialised domains ( the lexicon of skateboarding or knitting for example ) you will also find few words whose source is a text written by somebody working class , or black , or for that matter female . |
29 | It was the last few words which tipped the balance . |
30 | However , it puts well , I think , the case that the real basis of any public relations solution should be able to be captured in a few words which reflect the concept involved . |