Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does n't he say something about there 's gon na be ten thousand small schools in a few years and erm |
| 2 | The bank would give him facilities to purchase the business to the extent of seventy five thousand pounds if he agreed to sell his property at and from the proceeds of sale to repay the bridging facility in its entirety and they would provide a sixteen thousand pounds business loan and overdraught facilities to be reduced by five thousand pounds within a few days and if the six thousand pounds rent deposit was not required then the business loan would be reduced to ten thousand pounds . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) In the 1950s nationalist leaders in a few Latin American countries ( Argentina , Brazil and Uruguay ) , at critical junctures when their economies were undergoing varying degrees of pressure , sought to explore the potential political and/or economic benefits of relations with the Soviet Union . |