Example sentences of "few [noun pl] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Debenham there was a lot of extra curricular activities on offer like inter house competitions , Sports days , I took part in quite a few activities like Sports days , assemblies and some of the interhouse competitions like design a Christmas card and basket ball , I also went to a club on Friday lunch times . |
| 2 | The instructions for folding a piece of paper involve only a few operations like folding and unfolding . |
| 3 | This seemed to be a place where , despite noises in the night and a few dangers like trees that grew inside you and made your throat choke , a person might feel sale for always . |
| 4 | But there are too few projects like Cleevedon , and too little money to help more than a handful of youngsters every year . |
| 5 | And they 're all they 're they 're all patterns within lots of similarities , by going through it a few times like that and when you when you 've done that go through again say and with and everywhere you could write the whole lot out again |
| 6 | They scream in horrifying agony , and thick gouts of blood spray over anyone in the area as the meats fly with a squelch into roasting-trays on the tables , where they flop about for a few minutes like dying animals . |
| 7 | just , just a few hours like that |
| 8 | From time to time one of the women would speak , launch a few words like small puffs of smoke towards the moulded plaster flowers on the ceiling , and then fall silent again . |
| 9 | However , there are few communities like that . |
| 10 | A bit late : the bank 's growth in lending , and therefore its leverage , except in a few countries like China , Vietnam and Argentina , is likely to slow in the coming years . |
| 11 | I suppose that in a few countries like Nazi Germany in nineteen-thirty-six the erm the nation 's amateur champions were given a special backing because of the force of nationalism erm national focus of attention on them at that date , but it , it still was , they were amateurs still meeting on equal ground . |
| 12 | ‘ Journalists have always been keen on the idea of a ‘ Punk Revival ’ and now that a few bands like the Buzzcocks , Sham 69 and X-Ray Spex are back together they 're having a field day . |
| 13 | you know , for a few days like that , I mean th it , it , I al almost shudder at the thought because there 's so much else I would , you know , prefer to do with five hundred pounds . |
| 14 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 15 | The flier had been briefed to say a few things like a parrot , but had no deeper understanding of war , or peace , or politics than that bird . |
| 16 | As I pointed out in the original review , this causes a few problems like the inability to switch players . |
| 17 | Apart from a few rings like those recovered from the megalithic passage-grave at Mané-er-Hroek in Brittany , the jade artefacts circulating in Neolithic Europe consisted entirely of flat celts with pointed butts . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , few farmers like this and are holding back from selling . |
| 19 | Like to lay a few pounds like |
| 20 | It is exhaustive , impeccably organised , and generally well written ( apart from a few Germanicisms like telephoning ‘ over ’ instead of ‘ via ’ Sweden , and Norway 's defence being ‘ overmanned ’ instead of ‘ overwhelmed ’ ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Just a few items like the ever-disappearing sausages for the barbecue . ’ |
| 22 | Happily , there were few disasters like the Nuremburg raid of 30/31 March 1944 . |
| 23 | They were happy affairs — we dressed in our best , played a few games like Farmer In His Den , Blind Man 's Bluff Or Musical Chairs , we enjoyed a tea of sandwiches , chocolate biscuits , ice cream and jelly , sang ‘ Happy Birthday ’ and went home with a slice of cake . |
| 24 | I was n't going to rush around buying horribly expensive things like smoke salmon that I could n't afford , I was going to do a big family feast and I was going to get in a few games like the monopoly or lotto or you know , I just , I have n't worked it out but I thought oh what fun |
| 25 | So with the big firms , when you 're doing a full house and you you are n't just going to have a few bits like you would for a light removal , off you go and you estimate . |
| 26 | And of course , if her husbands off like , it 's ooh do n't bother me now , there 's a few girls like you know ! |
| 27 | Only a few leaders like Lenin denounced the entire conflict as an imperialist war , useful only in hastening the terminal crisis of capitalism . |
| 28 | The moral to be drawn from this is , let us apply the same committed and co-ordinated approach to deliver a Scottish parliament , which could tackle a whole range of problems , rather than simply showing piecemeal enthusiasm over a few issues like water and the poll tax . |
| 29 | A few others like Raoul , Pierre and Donna , left discreetly , until Nell , counting heads , could match all paying passengers with a place , Giles-the-murderer , I was interested to see , was still in the dining room , still being overpoweringly nice : it £as apparently essential to the drama that he should be liked . |
| 30 | If his language and intellectual categories are less startlingly novel today , it is because he , and a few others like Tom Nairn , have made them familiar to us . |