Example sentences of "in a few [noun pl] [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 2 | In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports . |
| 3 | In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation . |
| 4 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 5 | Except in a few cases it was pronounced a failure because of the need to use cheaper materials . |
| 6 | Usually this was because the grandparents had died too soon , but in a few cases it was because of distance . |
| 7 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
| 8 | In a few minutes they were on a smaller road , with the lough in view . |
| 9 | In a few minutes she was calmer . |
| 10 | In a few minutes he was ready . |
| 11 | In a few minutes it was all over . |
| 12 | In a few moments they were alone . |
| 13 | The road to Rimini by-passed the town and in a few moments they were out in the wilds again , labouring up a steep , tortuous medieval track on which modern civilization had done no more than slap a layer of asphalt and a road number . |
| 14 | In a few moments I was installed in a comfortable room about as near to the centre of Buda as it is possible to be . |
| 15 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism . |