Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun pl] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen still looked doubtful , then she said tactfully , ‘ Sophie , I think we should leave Ian and Joanna alone for the few minutes that remain , do n't you ? ’ |
| 2 | Researchers working with this substance set about trying to remove a fertilized ovum from a woman during the few days that elapse between actual conception and the implantation of the cell into the uterus — where it must be to develop into an infant — and then replacing it . |
| 3 | One or two of the few houses that make up the hamlet of San Sano were acquired and transformed by the owner with great mastery into the attractive Hotel Residence San Sano , Signor Matarazzo 's taste runs to what could be called a ‘ glorification of simplicity ’ . |
| 4 | Some of the few studies that have taken account of gender suggest that Afro-Caribbean girls are achieving higher levels than boys at school level , partly because they are pursuing different strategies , which are necessary in order to survive in the context of high unemployment and low wages for black male workers ( Fuller , 1983 ; see also Riley , 1986 ; Driver , 1977 ) . |
| 5 | The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance . |
| 6 | This reflects the so-called doctrine of double effect which was incorporated into English law in one of the few cases that have been decided in this area , R v. |
| 7 | ‘ They are one of the few teams that have come here and attacked us and they did a good job , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Well good luck to you because er you know I can tell you right now we are one of the few companies that take on people in their fifties . |
| 9 | It involves one of the few regulators that have shown some teeth in standing up to the powers that have been conferred by the Government on privatised British Gas . |
| 10 | But I am going to having said that I will tell you of the few accidents that have occurred over the years , and one of them was mine in the early days when I was learning th the full size removal job . |
| 11 | Vegetation is composed of the few plants that survive and grow : to explain that vegetation it may be more important to study the many that die . |
| 12 | A wind was gathering at the coast , preparing to sweep across the fields , lean against the few trees and race on over the road , across to the far side of the island . |
| 13 | However , as you know , you must be very , very careful with the few years that remain to you . ’ |
| 14 | The evidence from the few areas that have been bored or surveyed geophysically supports this view , but other evidence does not fit so well . |
| 15 | Such a strategy recognizes both the negative attitudes of local planners to industrial development in the open countryside and also the advantages of concentrating investment in infrastructure in the few locations that have reasonably large labour markets . |
| 16 | In the few weeks that have gone by a boy from the village has been killed by an elephant . |
| 17 | Handicrafts are among the few activities that employ Indians on their reservations . |
| 18 | In Lo stadio di Wimbledon , the young researcher is drawn in search of his elusive quarry by the few traces that remain : the occasional photograph ; a few letters and other writings ; the memories of surviving contemporaries . |