Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel , which will have full conference , banqueting and leisure facilities — including an outdoor swimming pool — is the first Novotel venture in Ireland , but others are expected over the next few years . |
| 2 | About 180,000 doses are expected within the next few days . |
| 3 | A further 120 rods are expected in the next few months and air transport is a possibility , the UKAEA says . |
| 4 | DAVID ANDERSON , chairman of Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's biggest life insurer , and Einion Holland , chairman of Pearl Group , the British life insurance company , are meeting over the next few days amid speculation that the Australian group is poised to mount a takeover bid for Pearl worth at least £1bn . |
| 5 | Its component elements are absorbed in the first few years of life largely unconsciously , and later more deliberately by informal and formal learning processes . |
| 6 | They 're based for the next few weeks at RAF Lyneham , which is proud to be playing host to one of the most spectacular display teams in the world . |
| 7 | Products — announcements are promised over the next few months — will ship direct and to OEM customers . |
| 8 | Products — announcements are promised over the next few months — will ship direct and to OEM customers . |
| 9 | THE Ministry of Defence is threatening to abolish all commoners ' centuries-old grazing rights on the Greenham Common nuclear cruise missile base , unless restrictions on the rights are agreed within the next few days . |
| 10 | With a low-start , low-cost with-profits endowment , payments are reduced in the first few years , and the difference has to be made up in the remaining period . |
| 11 | THIS production is the British premiere of a 17th Century work by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega , but any assumptions we may have that it will be a genteel period piece are dispelled with the first few lines of dialogue . |
| 12 | The hand positions and stances are learned within the first few weeks . |
| 13 | If such population gains are repeated in the next few decades , the traditional demographic map of rural areas will be completely transformed . |
| 14 | We understand that service cuts are planned within the next few months , which we fear will bring a decline in use of the Line , thus leading to a further rundown and closure . |