Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [coord] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of him were squat columns of coins and a few cheques . |
| 2 | Jet beads , bone needles and pins and spoons , bronze horse-trappings and a tile of the IXth Legion lay on a stone table with a collection of coins and a few pieces of gold jewellery . |
| 3 | He said it 's a couple of cocks and a few leeks chucked in . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't worry — there 's only a cloak , a couple of gowns and a few blouses . |
| 5 | There was only a handful of tourists and a few gardeners in orange overalls and hard yellow hats batting the undergrowth down and checking the stonework . |
| 6 | It 's very much concerned with the training and Ministry of Elders and a few weeks ago a part of our programme we held a very successful and lively meeting on the subject of church membership . |
| 7 | An increasing number of archivists and a few historians are coming to believe that a major change has taken place in the manner in which human society creates the evidence which will be used by the historians who , in the future , come to write about the late twentieth century ( Morris , et. al. 1992 ) . |
| 8 | Tests at very high temperatures need be , and should be , continued for only a short period , i.e. , for days or a few weeks rather than months . |
| 9 | She tells him all and , one assumes from hints and a few quotations in her letters , he does the same to her . |
| 10 | The service was conducted throughout in traditional Coptic , a language found only in churches and a few schools , and which very few even of the Copts understood . |