Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the few [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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1 | She also sewed clothes for toys and puppets , tiny dresses and jackets for anthropomorphic bears and monkeys and robes and mantles in silks and velvets for the few puppets they sold in the shop and gowns and breeches for the tall puppets who performed in the theatre . |
2 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
3 | Alternatively or additionally subjects may genuinely feel that there is greater subjective difference within the few films they have given high ratings to than within the many they have given lower ratings to and have been at least partially successful in avoiding what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms equal frequency biases . |
4 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
5 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
6 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
7 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |
8 | One younger Welsh hill farmer used to go up ‘ to help his father in evenings with the few cattle they had ’ , but afterwards at supper the older man expected the grandchildren to keep silent , and if they spoke ‘ he 'd look at us fiercely . ’ |