Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] few [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essentially one-day match contract for Chris Cowdrey is seen as rather ‘ something or nothing ’ in the words of a few Sophia punters . |
| 2 | The over zealous activities of a few PR advisers who succumb to this should not be allowed to damn the profession as a whole , he said . |
| 3 | Yet Northern Ireland is like Italian politics used to be : dominated by its partyocracy and political blocs , shifts of a few percentage points represent an earthquake . |
| 4 | There is no evening meal , but there are restaurants and pubs within a few minutes walk including the Royal Hotel , an old coaching house , with an elegant dining room equipped with pianist , and also the Snooty Fox , a charming pub with attractive beamed ceilings . |
| 5 | He used to deliver messages for a few club owners on this patch , ’ Culley said . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ The National is the racing showpiece of the world and we need to act now to stop it being destroyed by the apathy and negligence of the ruling body and the actions of a few animal rights protesters and rowdies . |
| 7 | ‘ The National is the racing showpiece of the world and we need to act now to stop it being destroyed by the apathy and negligence of the ruling body and the actions of a few animal rights protestors and rowdies . |
| 8 | This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time . |
| 9 | There 's a cosy hotel bar and although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are many good establishments within a few minutes walk . |
| 10 | Although there 's no restaurant in the hotel , there are plenty of good establishments within a few minutes walk . |
| 11 | We 'll catch up with her continued efforts in a few weeks time when Zoe Muir reviews the progress of all our healthy lifestylers as they hit the three month mark . |
| 12 | Specimen examination papers for the new syllabuses have been written , and packs will be sent to employers in a few weeks time . |
| 13 | The train brought one or two doubtful comments from a few WSR enginemen about 3822 's abilities with such a heavy train on the line 's hard gradients . |
| 14 | The Happy Mondays may have been all too willing to sell their souls for a few column inches , but watching Shaun gaze at the floor ‘ uhming ’ and ‘ aahing ’ , struggling to get his brain into gear , I feel like a voyeur . |
| 15 | Historical comparisons between the results of the few surveillance studies of locally confined disease with results of treatment studies are not conclusive . |
| 16 | As You Like It does n't even have the cinematic crutches of the few Shakespeare movies that have worked — no Henry V trench-warfare here . |
| 17 | In most FELs the electron beam consists of short bunches of electrons of a few picoseconds duration owing to bunching in the radiofrequency fields of the accelerator . |
| 18 | There 's a couple of handouts here which I 'm not gon na go into , but there again somebody might think about when you 're running group training and there 's some , there 's some I du n no er points with a few heading samples , so I 'm gon na take one and pass them on take one pass them on which I really no , no and there 's one over there So you 've got involving trainees we 've done humour we 've touched upon , brainstorming we 've done before . |
| 19 | Through established links with a few Oxford Colleges , he visited Oxford annually during the war and offered appointments as WEA full-time tutors to several outstanding young women graduates . |
| 20 | In the nineteenth century , when the only particle energies that people knew how to use were the low energies of a few electron volts generated by chemical reactions such as burning , it was thought that atoms were the smallest unit . |
| 21 | There have been dramatic declines of a few bird species as a result of using some chemicals , and perhaps more subtle and long-term changes as a result of the simplification of the plant community of farmland arising from cropping changes and the widespread use of increasingly sophisticated herbicides . |
| 22 | Yet a friend with a 14.1hh Welsh Cob says his costs average out at £12 a week ; admittedly she has her own land and he lives out most of the time , but he really earns his living — last year they did everything from Riding Club events to a few days hunting . |