Example sentences of "[ex0] be [art] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not the place to explain logic , but there are a few bits of terminology which occur often in this subject which are not entirely standard . |
| 2 | Young Charles is one of several up and coming teenagers in the Halkyn team along with Gareth Jacobs and Gareth Thomas , while there are a few others in the second eleven hoping for a first team chance . |
| 3 | There are a few signs of that fierce screwing up of feudal payments characteristic of the later stages of the ancien régime in France ; in Catalonia , for instance , a steady increase in the price of the farms of feudal dues overtook the rise in agricultural prices . |
| 4 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 5 | Vacancies still exist for tenors and basses in particular and also there are a few spaces for contraltos . |
| 6 | They retired a fortnight ago , , called the oh aye there are a few nicknames for them , including the Sisters . |
| 7 | Needless to say , there are a few surprises in these performances : the Academy 's playing is a polished as ever , Marriner 's conducting urbane and refined . |
| 8 | There are a few surprises in the music itself , no neglected giants waiting to be discovered ( not , at least , on the strength of the music recorded here ) . |
| 9 | Significantly , there are a few areas of overlap , which will allow very effective dovetailing between our operations . |
| 10 | There are a few planets in the evening sky , though . |
| 11 | It is unusual for the cost of extra fares to be given as a lump sum consolidated into salary , although there are a few firms in which this has been agreed . |
| 12 | It continued as a draught animal into the nineteenth century and even into the twentieth century here and there , and today there are a few teams of working Sussex oxen at open-air museums and farm parks . |
| 13 | There are a few glimmers of hope , however , since fewer firms are having trouble collecting fees and all but the larger firms are optimistic about increasing their client base . |
| 14 | There are a few things to be wary of in using the fifty millesimals . |
| 15 | While there are a few things in digital technology which have no possible representation in analogue form — infinite impulse response filters are a good example — most digital blocks derive their shape from the original analogue function . |
| 16 | Oh she 's says It 's not coal , no , I do n't use it for coal , she sa I 've got gas central heating , we do n't need No it 's just that er well there are a few things in there . |
| 17 | There are a few touches of delirium in Lecercle 's text itself , as he would certainly be delighted to admit ; I take them to be caused by an invasion of normal English by French . |
| 18 | Could you see that there are a few crates of champagne — those half-bottles , so convenient for visitors . ’ |
| 19 | While there are a few changes in detail , most British school and college mathematics classrooms do not differ much from those of a hundred years ago . |
| 20 | There are a few accents of English which may do this , so that , for example , ‘ cattle ’ is pronounced , but this is not the case in RP . |
| 21 | There are a few pairs of words ( minimal pairs ) in which a difference in meaning appears to depend on whether a particular is syllabic or not , for example : But we find no case of syllabic where it would not be possible to substitute either non-syllabic ( type a ) or ( type b ) ; in the examples above , ‘ Hungary ’ could equally well be pronounced and ‘ adulterous ’ as . |
| 22 | There are a few records for June and July , when up to four have been seen together . |
| 23 | There are a few records from the coast every year suggesting migration . |
| 24 | And that is , when , I ca n't remember what it 's called , and erm when the sex cells are made exactly half of an individual 's genes go into each , and when sex cells er come together in a fertilized exactly half of each parent 's genes are fitted together , so that 's completely fair , well almost completely fair , because there are a few genes outside the nucleus that only get they 're , they 're in a rather minority . |
| 25 | There are a few places in the States , but there 's no federal policy to get them organised on a big-money basis and all the little local pressure groups keep them harassed and staying small . |
| 26 | To be sure , there are a few mistakes in this richly detailed background . |
| 27 | There are a few thickenings in some of them , but these can hardly be described as brains . |
| 28 | Fish normally seek out the warmer shallows , and if there are a few days of sunshine before opening day then you will know where to choose on the bank . |
| 29 | Usually , it is preferable if there are a few days of further careful assessment of the patient before such steps are taken . |
| 30 | While there are a few vines on the flat ground just south of the village , the vast majority are found on the slopes of the Butte de Saran , the northern extremity of the Côte des Blancs , and on the eastern slopes of Mont Bernon , edging the suburbs of Épernay . |