Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among primates , especially close collaboration between parents has developed in a few forest-dwelling animals as diverse as gibbons on the one hand and the tiny marmosets on the other . |
| 2 | The literature of the castle , published by the 29th Laird of Dunvegan , John Macleod of Macleod , makes the business plain : ‘ Since the castle was first opened to the public more than forty years ago , the number of visitors has risen from a few hundred to tens of thousands ’ — many of them Macleod descendants from the New World . |
| 3 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 4 | Within the last few years , physicists have come within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero using a new technique called laser entrapment . |
| 5 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |