Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also sewed clothes for toys and puppets , tiny dresses and jackets for anthropomorphic bears and monkeys and robes and mantles in silks and velvets for the few puppets they sold in the shop and gowns and breeches for the tall puppets who performed in the theatre . |
| 2 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 3 | Therefore the few staff sit up late at night to prepare lectures on a few things they know about and a lot of things they know not much about , and spend their time keeping one page ahead of the class and depending on the textbook . |
| 4 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
| 5 | One younger Welsh hill farmer used to go up ‘ to help his father in evenings with the few cattle they had ’ , but afterwards at supper the older man expected the grandchildren to keep silent , and if they spoke ‘ he 'd look at us fiercely . ’ |