Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same pattern of asexual reproduction occurs in water fleas , aphids and even a few lizards . |
| 2 | The air was quite filled with hundreds and hundreds of swifts , wheeling and turning in the sky , with dozens of swallows and sand-martins and just a few house-martins lower down over the water . |
| 3 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |
| 4 | Fragments of paper were missing from some of the pages and quite a few names were faded , some almost beyond recognition . |
| 5 | The need for laboratory investigations should be determined by the clinical problems posed by individual patients and only a few tests need be considered as routine ( table III ) . |
| 6 | Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns . |
| 7 | The grateful customer sent Tina a box of chocolates but only a few days earlier she had vowed not to eat any chocolates because of Lent . |
| 8 | Well he 's hit me while I 've had my kid in my arms and quite a few times . |
| 9 | As Weber ( 1963 ) points out , Sweden , Holland and Denmark are small nations with limited sized labour forces and only a few industries of major importance . |
| 10 | There are no easy answers but maybe a few guidelines as to what might be happening , for Margaret , staring dry-eyed and forlorn into a new day , and for all the other people who have ever had that sort of feeling . |
| 11 | ( There are plenty of white working-class boys and even a few policemen who do not hold pronounced racist views . ) |