Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is supported by the few studies specifically of rural areas ; Moseley and Townroe ( 1973 ) found that immigrant firms in East Anglia retained most of their original linkages outside the region , and Hodge and Whitby ( 1979 ) , in a study of the eastern Scottish Borders , found that few in-migrant firms had important local linkages . |
| 2 | This stage was followed by the introduction of individual ownership and this was followed by a few people gradually monopolizing the ownership of the means of production . |
| 3 | This was followed by a few minutes of silence . |
| 4 | All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century , shortly before Richard 's birth . |
| 5 | The regiment 's first official title after the 1881 merger was The Halifax Regiment ( Duke of Wellington 's ) but this was changed after a few weeks to The Duke of Wellington 's ( West Riding Regiment ) and again in 1920 to The Duke of Wellington 's Regiment ( West Riding ) . |
| 6 | Some of the young calves are fattened on the farms but many are reared for a few months and then sold for fattening in central or eastern Britain . |
| 7 | More is accomplished in a few weeks through revival than is accomplished in years of ordinary labours . |
| 8 | Growth from 1851 to 1911 was concentrated on the few urban industrial regions in which an increasing proportion of the population lived ; these experienced both net immigration and natural increase . |
| 9 | I 'll bet that 's made for a few tensions in Schreider Sterne Inc. ! ’ |