Example sentences of "few [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
| 2 | Now Seb had the men 's attention he said , more hopefully , ‘ She left her own camp in the forest to come down here hoping to sell a few trinkets to your men . |
| 3 | Going along as a small independent with just a few programmes to your name does render you relatively powerless . |
| 4 | I had most of the morning to myself and made a few calls to clients , to a financial journalist whose opinion I valued and finally to Andrew Buccleuth . |
| 5 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |
| 6 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 7 | Already he was worried about their stores lasting until the Saturday when he might reasonably claim a few shillings to tide him over ; Emily 's mother had given them a box of stuff , sausages , bread , some tea , butter , bacon — but it would have to be spun out . |
| 8 | And when Mrs Amabel Dallam remembered to pay her for all those wedding chemises she might just take a few shillings to a certain bazaar in Leeds where she 'd heard good dress-lengths were to be had at bargain prices and make herself a new dress for Christmas . |
| 9 | A lot of small codling in the Menai Straits , plus a few dabs to 1 lb at Port Dinorwic and Beaumaris . |
| 10 | Too thinly spread to have much impact on the structure of wealth , so many were subsidiary to farming that , far from being divided into industrial and agrarian regions , England consisted of various farming regions of which certain pastoral ones had attained some degree of industrial development , in some few cases to the extent of substantially modifyng their fundamental characteristics . |
| 11 | This is because they can include additional short irradiations for elements with isotopes of very short half-lives , from a few minutes to a few hours , although this increases the analyst 's work . |
| 12 | Similarly , the clock on the front of the American Bulletin of Atomic Scientists stood at a few minutes to midnight , but the American government did not heed it . |
| 13 | It can therefore vary from every few minutes to once a year but I usually begin with once a day . |
| 14 | A wall goes down from the road straight as a die to Ease Gill and a walk alongside leads in a few minutes to a small hole in the ground that opens into lengthy passages below : this is Short Drop Cave . |
| 15 | The time span of observation in these studies varies from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 16 | The muffled jangle of the bell disturbed her reverie , and she glanced up at the clock — it lacked a few minutes to three — her visitor was punctual as usual . |
| 17 | Finally , proceed in the last few minutes to the last two of the seven stages — IL and E. |
| 18 | Sometimes a placenta simply lifted out but I had this one away from the cotyledons one by one , returning every few minutes to the hot water and antiseptic to re-soap my aching arms . |
| 19 | For stable samples we rarely need to obtain spectra in a hurry , and commercial spectrometers generally operate on timescales ranging from a few minutes to several hours . |
| 20 | ‘ I grabbed a few minutes to myself , ’ she explained breathlessly . |
| 21 | A wall clock ticked loudly : a few minutes to nine . |
| 22 | It is a piece with few reasons to be a film , and mercifully few pretensions to cinematic status . |
| 23 | ‘ Bellybutton ’ is choc-a-bloc with gobstoppers like this and Jellyfish are one of the year 's few reasons to be cheerful . |
| 24 | The results can take from a few hours to over a week , depending on where you go to be tested . |
| 25 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 26 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 27 | But I do envy anyone who can have a few hours to themselves at Christmas , she thought . |
| 28 | I append the headings of a few subjects to which I have given some attention , and which I could write a readable article upon . |
| 29 | He rose , flung his arms wide , took a deep inhalation of sea air and climbed the few paces to the top of the dune where he would be visible to the clothed . |
| 30 | Linda jumped out and went the few paces to the garage , unlocking the door and sliding it part way open . |