Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] a few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials .
2 The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist .
3 The epidermal cells at this edge generally appear to adhere tightly to one another , although in a few places they are individually rounded up as though less tightly coherent .
4 Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day .
5 Her earlier fears about what terrors lay in store returned , all the more powerful because for a few minutes she had forgotten them .
6 It would not profit the children there greatly to learn the culture of those countries when in a few months they would have to go overseas .
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