Example sentences of "few [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | I met Leonard Elmhirst a few times in his old age . |
| 32 | ‘ I 've been back to London a few times in the last year , and I 've had some great times there , ’ she enthused . |
| 33 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 34 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 35 | I 'm glad it was one of my second-hand buys ; it only cost £10 so I suppose I 've had my money 's worth out of it a few times in the garden . |
| 36 | Edward sat frozen , one of the few times in his life he had been genuinely frightened . |
| 37 | It was one of the few times in my life when I actually spoke the truth . |
| 38 | ( ‘ lt is normal to feel self-conscious and conspicuous on your first few times in the field ; do not let this distract you from the Subject . ’ ) |
| 39 | Still at school but has already played a few times in midfield for youth team . |
| 40 | Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away . |
| 41 | tossed over a few times in the night , burnt me eyes out |
| 42 | I often took it with me when going to the allotment and felt very grown up on the return journey if my father had put a few vegetables in it . |
| 43 | Place a few pebbles in the bottom of the tube to aid drainage before inserting the clothes pole , umbrella etc . |
| 44 | It may have been necessary for Jesus to have eaten a few fishes in order to survive in first-century Palestine , but it is not now necessary to feast on the bodies of dead animals in order to be healthy . |
| 45 | Pat anticipates receiving quite a few requests in the near future . |
| 46 | Pat anticipates receiving quite a few requests in the near future . |
| 47 | I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries . |
| 48 | But I was kind of forced into that because it was only bass and guitar and I was trying to do as much rhythm as I could , but stab a few notes in here and there to make it sound like there was more than there really was . |
| 49 | ( She thought : I must n't forget to sing a few notes in that direction … ) |
| 50 | Now erm tt what I would like to do is er take a few notes in what we call this questionnaire . |
| 51 | ten which would actually give you a B in , in , in normal circumstances but as you know we 're only allowed to give you a C. Right and there 's a few notes in there as well , did I 'll tick your box on your one . |
| 52 | I agree but I think that anybody who speaks in public , you have nervousness beforehand and the moment you go to talk to the people you know what you 're going to say , you have a few notes in front of you and you talk to the people , if that is your job . |
| 53 | I 've got some bits in there for her a few kittens in there for a couple of days I , so they 'd go up , pick them up and they get left |
| 54 | Er it seems to me that erm there are probably quite a few policies in the structure plan that could be omitted if we just took the all the P P Gs as read . |
| 55 | Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring . |
| 56 | Anyone with a few coins in their purse , or gold pieces , was well advised to take a ‘ chair ’ or a ‘ cab ’ home after dark . |
| 57 | There are a few planets in the evening sky , though . |
| 58 | Granuloma inguinale is evenly distributed in tropical regions , with a high prevalence in Papua New Guinea and Southern India and a few cases in Africa , the Southern USA , South-East Asia , and the Caribbean . |
| 59 | The very few cases in point suggest that his confidence would not be misplaced . |
| 60 | There are few cases in which the attention paid to intention ( in the sense of the voluntas of the verba — voluntas dichotomy ) seems particularly remarkable . |