Example sentences of "a few such " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dunbars have observed only a few such fights to completion but the outcome is quite remarkable . |
| 2 | As long as there is a healthy collection of lactobacilli in the vagina , conditions will be unfavourable for other micro-organisms , and , although a few such organisms may be isolated , their presence does not signify any important infection . |
| 3 | Yugoslavia itself has benefited considerably from a few such direct investments from foreign countries , especially in the automobile industry . |
| 4 | However , in dodder the production of a few such coils usually triggers the development of haustoria which eventually establish the supply lines with the host . |
| 5 | However , a few such are heavily elaborated culturally , and I propose that an examination of these is one means by which we might achieve an understanding of Chewong ‘ peacefulness ’ . |
| 6 | Harper 's own wife would need more than a few such compliments when he reached home , for she had been adamantly opposed to her husband travelling to Brussels . |
| 7 | Tony Ruffell , chief executive of Nottinghamshire FHSA , told me that preliminary research in the county suggested that each general practitioner would encounter only a few such difficult decisions a year — perhaps five or six . |
| 8 | He even suggested that a few such representatives from outside the government might be co-opted on to the State Council , the supreme bureaucratic body beneath the Tsar . |
| 9 | The mother who ‘ ca n't be so cruel ’ as to wake her sleeping baby if he happens to be asleep at the appointed feeding-time , fails to realize that a few such wakings would be all she would have to resort to … |
| 10 | We do still have a few such courses and they work quite well . |
| 11 | We urged the WO to get the SoS to revoke a few such departure applications to send a clear signal to these ( and all planning authorities ) , that the SoS expects them to follow Government guidance . |
| 12 | There are indeed a few such verbs , keep being one of them . |
| 13 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |