Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 She was threatened with that a few days later when she was sweeping the back stairs and her rear view was too much of a temptation for the young footman .
2 Add to this a few arguments related to the preservation of choice , local market knowledge , and participation in technology transfer , and you have the case for not allowing air transport power to be concentrated in too few hands .
3 In Zimbabwe there are now eight ‘ traditional ’ choirs , all in Harare , as compared with twenty a few years ago .
4 Chemical shifts are generally of a few eV or less , and overlap of lines due to different elements is unlikely , as each element contributes at most a few lines in the range 50–1200 eV , while the instrumental linewidth is of the order of 2 eV .
5 The hillsides would have been covered like this a few centuries ago — genuine deer forests .
6 The latest iteration is the PI/open Unix version , which was launched by Prime a few months before its effective demise .
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