Example sentences of "few [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , experimentation is going to yield better and better results , but few guitar players would find much trouble extracting a workable sound in a matter of minutes . |
| 2 | He 'd been all over town and had a few vocals left , a few guitar bits , and was rather disenchanted with the studio he was using . |
| 3 | A few guitar scorch-squeals here , a lash of vocal venom there , ca n't wipe out my suspicions . |
| 4 | The great breadth of the river and few crossing points means that the Stir forms a defensive barrier and a natural border between Stirland to the south and Talabecland to the north . |
| 5 | This has not removed the danger of war but it has certainly perverted the concept of defence — there are few defence systems which are not actually war machines . |
| 6 | Then there was the partitioned living area with a few kitchen chairs , an oilstove , a larger wicker easy chair for ‘ the woman ’ in the corner , near the window that overlooked the wharf and the meadows . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , cultivators and labourers were drawn from all castes , and there were few caste monopolies . |
| 8 | The scientists stressed that it was little more than a laboratory curiosity , the energy coming from the fusion of only a few hydrogen atoms and ‘ was scarcely enough to register on highly sensitive measuring instruments ’ ; although the process had no immediate commercial value it suggested ‘ possible industrial uses of immeasurable importance ’ . |
| 9 | Few canopy trees in Costa Rica are bird-pollinated and those that are , are visited by passerines such as orioles , which travel in groups : hummingbirds would turn trees into individual feeding territories and thus reduce pollination . |
| 10 | A few case studies illustrate the process . |
| 11 | Languages which have elaborate systems of case inflections tend to have fewer restrictions on word order than languages like English which have very few case inflections . |
| 12 | We would give much for a few case histories , like that of the fourteenth-century merchant of Prato , of how a medieval household actually worked . |
| 13 | On the one hand , there has been the approach which emphasizes the complexity of financial accounting and thus produces many user groups ( which we might call the differential approach ) ; alternatively , there has been the approach which emphasizes the commonalities and produces few user groups ( which we might call the integral approach ) . |
| 14 | It was said that the few cabin passengers on board sailed under very different conditions . |
| 15 | A heavy paraffin fraction ( Nujol ) is often used as mulling agent , and its few absorption bands can usually be readily distinguished from those of the sample ( Fig. 5.10 ) . |
| 16 | Pour into glasses , top each one with a whole fresh strawberry and serve with a few amaretti biscuits . |
| 17 | The album pulled a few Manhattan fads ( salsa , jazz , R&B ) into snappy pop figures and also revealed a newly flexible capacity in Jackson 's voice ; previously hard-edged and impatient , it could now sit comfortably on the grand slopes of a ballad like ‘ Breaking Us In Two ’ , a Top 20 hit in America . |
| 18 | Apart from a few bit parts , the rest would be real people . |
| 19 | Deep in my stomach the whirling pits started a few trial revolutions and it was n't down to the meat pie I 'd had . |
| 20 | On reaching the peg which had stopped my fall , he made a few trial attempts with the skyhook , just to find out how it worked . |
| 21 | If you simply do n't need the trace facility , and I suspect that few Spectrum users really will , then check out the screen-based programs and save a few bob into the bargain . |
| 22 | As well as the above scale type there are also a few arpeggio ideas employed . |
| 23 | And we 'll drop in on the way home to watch a few election results or do you think if I start having a party tomorrow night it 's gon na get out of hand ? |
| 24 | FOR A town of such ancient importance , Stamford has remarkably few ghost traditions . |
| 25 | He told the Congress of People 's Deputies that , while he would make a few personnel changes in his Cabinet , he would not give up his position as Prime Minister until he was sure the reforms had become irreversible . |
| 26 | Few people have it , but as there are comparatively few copywriter positions in London , you ca n't just waltz in and expect to make a mark . |
| 27 | In all residential areas , safety is at its lowest in long straight streets , in streets with many junctions and those with few play facilities . |
| 28 | We 'd go out on the town , hit a few cocktail parties , go dancing , and I 'd drop a few hundred quid on a weekend . ’ |
| 29 | This is not really suited for binocular observation , but it is one of the few Mira variables easily found with binoculars when near maximum . |
| 30 | While few Whitehall officials disputed the need for nuclear weapons to damp out the possibility of a recurrence of the conventional-weapon slaughter of the two World Wars , Sandys had breached a fundamental principle of British military policy — the maintenance of balanced military forces able to react to the unforeseen . |