Example sentences of "not a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are fine expressions of true sensuality in this book , and great gratitude to those he left behind : Anne ( in ‘ For Anne ’ ) ; Annie ( in ‘ Now Of Sleeping ’ ) ; Betty ( in ‘ The Boy 's Beauty ’ : for Betty , his italics ) ; and beyond those unnamed lovers of yesteryear , not a few who responded to his charm and wit . |
| 2 | It costs $15 for adults and $7 for children for the excitement of running not a few miles . |
| 3 | ‘ Despondent souls , ’ it was said , ‘ and there are not a few of these , seem to have been struck only by one part of the Führer 's speech : where he spoke of the preparations for the winter campaign in 1942–43 . |
| 4 | Not a few Victorians followed Gladstone 's example and shopped round ; the Liberal Prime Minister much enjoyed Parker 's Thursday sermons for men . |
| 5 | Primarily , between the marble staircases of the Grosvenor and Waterloo Rooms of this world , there was life — rich , content , brash , and above all , utterly and completely confident that tomorrow would hold the same as today , if not a few ounces , inches , or a pickle-jar more for all concerned . |
| 6 | That was the main , but not the only cause of the subsequent riot , when the bonnie lieges , not a few ‘ in drink ’ as they used to say at the magistrate 's court , toppled the case over with the luckless , as well as legless leprechaun still inside . |
| 7 | These anomalies caused not a few petty grouses . |
| 8 | Leapor adopts the less offensive course of a generalized commentary : ‘ Of Wives I sing , and Husbands , not a Few : / Examples rare ! some fictious , and some true ’ [ ML , 2 , 102 ] . |
| 9 | One imagines that not a few may actually have seized the opportunity to indulge in a quiet sleep in preparation for the evening stint , for the dinner was formal and the occasion for full ceremonial . |
| 10 | Not a few men lost teeth because they had met the big man at the wrong moment . |
| 11 | Before the train stops every door is opened and all try to get out at once , with the result that not a few alight on their faces . |
| 12 | The fact is that most parents find discipline one of the most difficult parts of their job ; not a few find it an impossible task — especially at particular periods of their children 's lives . |
| 13 | When the steamboat touches the pier , you are met by a throng of canvassers from the hotels and private lodging-house keepers , and not a few of the holiday residents , who look out eagerly , in the hope of mayhap meeting friend or acquaintance or notable traveller . |
| 14 | AMONG THE MANY letters we receive each week there are some that clearly merit publication , and not a few that clearly merit filing in the waste paper basket . |
| 15 | Not a few drivers were surprised to find themselves ‘ held up ’ by a group of clowns as they entered the village . |
| 16 | Only in rare cases was there personal violence , although not a few farmers received threatening notes , often from illiterates with individual grievances . |
| 17 | He was by no means unusual for his place and time : there were not a few London families in the mid-19th century who were busy accumulating all the paraphernalia that seemed to give them a gilt-edged claim to middle-class respectability — the portraits , the studio photographs , a family bible , ornate gravestones , even the odd crest and Latin motto . |
| 18 | This question is a rose with not a few thorns ; women do not like the assumption often made by men ( especially poets ) that the beautiful face describes an equally beautiful soul . |
| 19 | Already the muster was a week late ; and there were not a few contingents still to come in , including the Regent 's own . |
| 20 | ‘ We have here not a few whose high office would make them suitable for the position , ’ he said . |
| 21 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |
| 22 | Through telephone enquiries he discovered that there were plenty of Carrows and Tremaynes in the county and not a few who were ex-directory . |
| 23 | Mrs Frizzell snatched up her property , tried wildly to wrap the books in the remains of the paper bag , dropped one of them , picked it up and fled to the cloak-room at the back of the hall , followed by the titters and sniggers of not a few ladies who , knowing the reason for her purchase of the books , could well have rescued her from her predicament , but saw no reason to do so . |
| 24 | And not a few thought it was a kind of desecration to use a voice like that in uttering such common words : |
| 25 | Together , they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments . |
| 26 | The answer to this question has not a few repercussions in the social world that sociologists study — often for purely secular reasons . |
| 27 | Calling the P5 a ‘ paper tiger ’ responsible for the collapse of ACE and claiming that the chip fails to live up to its promises , Slater notes that ‘ the P5 is turning out to be not a few months behind the R4000 , but over a year later — and by the time the P5 is shipping , the MIPS semiconductor partners will be shipping the R4400 with perhaps 50% better performance than the P5 . ’ |
| 28 | At Slapton , as on not a few other manors , a degree of confusion is understandable , for tenures were complex , embracing not only freeholds and copyholds — mostly heritable , though including a few for lives — but also what were described in a survey made in 1548 as ‘ The Farme Landes ’ , which were probably parcels of the demesne that were let by copy of court roll , the larger ones for fifteen years , the rest at will . |
| 29 | Not until the shock of the Crimean invasion did Ivan abolish the oprichnina , and intermittent terror continued for the rest of his reign , swallowing up not a few of the opochniks themselves . |
| 30 | But his honesty and modesty endeared him to many who valued his wise advice : not a few he encouraged to posts of greater responsibility and challenge . |