Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door of the house opened , and she heard a few words exchanged between David and his grandmother . |
| 2 | Finally , since 1989 , DGX has granted a few scholarships to specialise in restoration and conservation . |
| 3 | ( A few exceptions exist in soliloquies or in dramatic dialogue , but even these are conservative : an unusual ending comprises a close in the relative or dominant ! ) |
| 4 | The Bible has more than a few things to say about astrology and fortune-telling . |
| 5 | Some patients in surgical wards will have very few problems related to nutrition and hydration . |
| 6 | So , around the middle years of the nineteenth century , Britain was seen to have acquired a new liberal constitution — that is a constitution of limited public participation where there was an executive which was responsible to a directly elected parliamentary assembly and which had taken few powers to intervene in economy and society . |
| 7 | At the summit cairn on Shunner Fell , we paused only for a few seconds to look towards Swaledale and back towards Mallerstang before moving on . |
| 8 | In contrast to certain other African countries , Zambia had remarkably few periodicals published by churches or religious organizations ; the few that were published all had small circulations . |
| 9 | Most full-time political representatives in Cuba are men , with very few women standing for election and even fewer succeeding . |
| 10 | As well as Scotland , a few colonies survive in Wales and southwest England . |