Example sentences of "[conj] [art] few [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | You must always include one Warlord , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or a few characters as you wish . |
2 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
3 | Books can be sold on their jackets to impulse buyers who may well not read more than a few pages once they have bought them . |
4 | Denmark , the country that likes to say no , ruffled more than a few egos when they said yes to becoming European Championship substitutes and drew with England in their opening game before going on to win the trophy . |
5 | It does n't seem more than a few months since I was knitting clothes for her dolls — and now — ’ She held up her needles , speared through the left front of a pearly-white matinée jacket . |
6 | My sons ’ dragons are incapable of flying more than a few miles before they fade . ’ |
7 | No amount of persuasion would induce her to stay with us for more than a few days before she 'd vanish again to pursue her old habits , and on New Year 's Day 1967 , the police called for the last time . |
8 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |