Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The over zealous activities of a few PR advisers who succumb to this should not be allowed to damn the profession as a whole , he said . |
| 2 | He absorbed the little gray figures in a few seconds and his face bulged . |
| 3 | There 's a cosy hotel bar and although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are many good establishments within a few minutes walk . |
| 4 | If the pattern holds , Europe will have thriving private-placement markets within a few years . |
| 5 | Does n't he say something about there 's gon na be ten thousand small schools in a few years and erm |
| 6 | It is impossible to summarize the history of English towns in the late Middle Ages in a few convenient generalizations . |
| 7 | She did not think it wise to add she had suffered so many traumatic incidents in a few days that this was a minor one , nor that her knees had turned to water and refused to hold her up any longer . |
| 8 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 9 | We know the reason local bargaining is being encouraged , it 's to lower wages and conditions and give rich financial benefits to the few . |
| 10 | The train brought one or two doubtful comments from a few WSR enginemen about 3822 's abilities with such a heavy train on the line 's hard gradients . |
| 11 | There is , on the other hand , a remarkable concentration of female part-time employees in a few mainly low-status occupations , seldom followed by men . |
| 12 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) In the 1950s nationalist leaders in a few Latin American countries ( Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay ) , at critical junctures when their economies were undergoing varying degrees of pressure , sought to explore the potential political and/or economic benefits of relations with the Soviet Union . |