Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun pl] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Um and erm that might be that 's one of th some of the few things that the library 's got but erm er anyway . |
| 2 | It was one of the few times that the pulp glossy pop press produced journalism worth reading . |
| 3 | Neil Anderson from Ireland wants to get into the few rooms that the bunch of keys and big iron key wo n't open . |
| 4 | The bulk of the chicks ' diet consists of leaf-eating caterpillars from oak trees , particularly those of the green oak tortrix , and these are at their best in the few weeks after the leaf buds come out . |
| 5 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 6 | They have somehow , in the few days since the rains arrived , become biblically sleek . |
| 7 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 8 | At first the Orcs looted and pillaged through Ostermark , feasting upon the few beasts that the people had carefully nurtured through the winter and driving the impoverished population westwards through the snow . |