Example sentences of "few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | You are receiving too many or too few copies of the Globe each month |
| 32 | Firstly , look at a few maps of zodiacs already published to get a feeling for them . |
| 33 | Few maps of modern Delhi bother to mark Begampur . |
| 34 | Very few ideas and very few projects of any significance are implemented by one person alone : Other people 's effort makes it happen — whether they are assistants , subordinates , a staff , a special project team , or a task force of peers assembled just for this effort . |
| 35 | Few strategies of resistance were unknown . |
| 36 | We can contemplate many pictures of large-wheeled carts , for example , and a few scraps of them remain ; but the details of land transport are still obscure , though we become ever more aware how much must have travelled on exceedingly inadequate roads . |
| 37 | In one corner stands a silver-topped trolley with a pair of scalpels , a few scraps of dry skin , and some oddly-curved blunt metal spatulas . |
| 38 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 39 | One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show . |
| 40 | A few scraps of wood , a pair of pants stained with blood that 's the same group as Ephraim 's . |
| 41 | ‘ Swainmotes ’ were held at Weybridge in Huntingdon Forest at Midsummer , Michaelmas and Martinmas in the middle of the fifteenth century , but only a few presentments of venison trespasses by husbandmen were presented by the foresters before the verderers between 1451 and 1455 . |
| 42 | The moment of asking was one of their few times of agreement and understanding . |
| 43 | Few meetings of more than three people work successfully without someone acting as chairman . |
| 44 | Blanche drank off the last of her whisky , leaving a few pebbles of unmelted ice in the bottom of her glass . |
| 45 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 46 | By definition , the altruistic majority must promote the reproductive success of the selfish the reproductive success of the selfish organism , the mutant , will be far greater than the altruist , and within a few generations of selfish individuals . |
| 47 | Let's briefly go through the first few generations of the main line of evolution in Figure 4 . |
| 48 | I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets . |
| 49 | The first few pairs of somites that form do not persist ; they disappear and are incorporated into the head . |
| 50 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 51 | A few pairs of battered shoes were lined up along an old wooden shelf . |
| 52 | In fact , there was very little inside the case , just her watch , a few pairs of earrings , and her cultured pearl necklace . |
| 53 | There are a few pairs of words ( minimal pairs ) in which a difference in meaning appears to depend on whether a particular is syllabic or not , for example : But we find no case of syllabic where it would not be possible to substitute either non-syllabic ( type a ) or ( type b ) ; in the examples above , ‘ Hungary ’ could equally well be pronounced and ‘ adulterous ’ as . |
| 54 | As chance would have it , there was a couple living just down the road from us who kept animals — anything from horses to chinchillas , including a few birds of prey . |
| 55 | In fact , remarkably few birds of prey survive their first winter in the wild , but once they have done so life seems to be a bit easier for them . |
| 56 | I paid the fourpence for two coffees , and after I had seen Clare to her train back home , went to St Andrew 's to make a few notes of plans to defend myself , for I knew it would not be long before I faced a new ‘ trial ’ — by the hospital 's board of governors . |
| 57 | Finally and by far the most important is : ( 3 ) To introduce into this familiar setting a few notes of caution . |
| 58 | And into the silence , sinuous and pin-clear , the first few notes of a flute concerto . |
| 59 | This brought out a few gasps of admiration from the onlookers . |
| 60 | More importantly , few coins of the house of Theodosius have been recorded , indicating a fairly rapid end to the occupation . |