Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [noun] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the centre would be several lines of trestle tables carrying cages for chicken , ducks and geese with a few tame rabbits . |
| 3 | More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course . |
| 4 | Add the brandy to the meat juices and heat for a few seconds before igniting . |
| 5 | Most of these rural craftsmen were still part-time farmers or cottagers with a few acres of land and rights on the commons and wastes . |
| 6 | The farms listed on p. 60 supply eggs and larvae of a few common species in season . |
| 7 | List all your outgoings and expenses over a few weeks . |
| 8 | Invitations come via playgroups but parents of the few children who do not attend one can contact the headteacher , Margaret Sutton , at the school . |
| 9 | But such ecosystems are often open , in that they require heavy inputs of nutrients and energy to maintain populations and productivity of a few selected species of plants and animals . |
| 10 | In cases around the room lie the collected fragmentary treasures of human ancestry , mostly skulls , jaws and teeth with a few partial limb bones . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Comparisons with published data for central Atlantic islands are restricted to samples of common rock types , mainly transitional basalts , alkali basalts and basanites with a few nephelinites . |
| 13 | I was terrified of saying anything that the kidnappers would view as a coded message or as offensive in any way , in case John should suffer for it , but how was I to put a year 's worth of thoughts and feelings into a few lines ? |
| 14 | Treatment is usually a lotion which kills the lice and nits in a few easy applications . |
| 15 | A walkway for the guards , and compartments to separate the convicts into manageable groups , each fitted with small hatches for the dropping of their black bread rations , and unmoveable benches and shelves for a few to sleep on . |