Example sentences of "[prep] the few [noun pl] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the few days before Blundy came across to Belfast , Paisley contacted a legal friend who in turn suggested to Vincent Browne of the Sunday Independent , a Dublin newspaper , that he examine the Black case . |
| 2 | Instead he pushed his way into the small lounge and rapidly began sorting through the few books and papers she had left lying on the table . |
| 3 | Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure . |
| 4 | He is one of the few engineers or designers still at Browns Lane to have worked with Sir William Lyons , the company 's founder and whose principles still provide much of its inspiration . |
| 5 | Better access to trade training courses : One of the few ways that prisoners can feel that some positive benefit has been gained from a sentence . |
| 6 | This is one of the few indications that Eliot gave of the fact that , in the periods between illness when he carried on with his ordinary duties in London ( as much as anyone 's life was " ordinary " then ) , he experienced the horror of the German raids : the nightly bombings , the streets blocked with rubble , the glow in the evening as fires burned throughout the city , and the peculiarly dank smell of ruined buildings : it was this which provoked fear , precluded concentration on other things , and destroyed the will to work . |
| 7 | Her suitcase was still sitting on the bed , with the few clothes and belongings she had brought with her piled into it . |
| 8 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 9 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 10 | Even in the few years since Volumes I and II of the Supplement were published , numerous words and meanings in the range A-N have emerged which are therefore not to be found in the largest Oxford Dictionary . |
| 11 | In the few days that Blake had known the Doctor , he had never seen him fall asleep . |
| 12 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 13 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 14 | Others would be borne by the few feminists and freaks who preferred girls , for the whole thing would be voluntary ; no compulsion would be needed ; PopCon 's research had been thorough . |