Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In turn , ‘ a striking development ’ , as the 1974 Press Commission researchers called it , was ‘ the concentration of the ownership of newspapers in contiguous towns into a few hands ’ ( Hartley et al. , 1977 , p. 73 ) . |
| 2 | There will be slight inaccuracies in these estimates as a few claims will be received in April each year and be paid at a new rate after a rise in fees , and some very late claims may be paid at an old lower rate . |
| 3 | Petitions did not begin simply to be pressed on parliament in large numbers on a few issues ; the range of grievances expanded in petitioning . |
| 4 | It has even led in extreme cases to a few excavators being so certain of what they would find before they put a spade into the ground , that evidence was selected and rejected in accordance with their predetermined thinking . |
| 5 | For the past 31 years , Scottish-bred salmon returning to your country 's most famous rivers , the Tweed , Forth , Tay , Dee , Don , the Esks , Spey and many others , have been intercepted at sea in enormous numbers by a few English boat fishermen . |
| 6 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 7 | A number of very different trends were to be seen in a sample of frequencies on bus routes , ranging from consistent decline over the period since 1939 to slight increase in recent years on a few routes . |
| 8 | Anyway , with the enthusiasm of youth I had no doubt that we should be able to cope with life in remote parts for a few years . |