Example sentences of "be [num] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | He will be fifty in a few years ’ time . |
2 | However , my parents are both happy , has grown up and is football mad , will be three in a few months , has just turned one and in seven months I will be leaving high school and have my whole future in front of me . |
3 | ‘ You must be one of the few friends of Gamal that I do n't know . ’ |
4 | These Bible stories must be one of the few sources of information about dreaming made available during the course of our children 's education . |
5 | Jack was ready to bet all the crisp honeymoon pound notes he had in his pocket that Charlie would be one of the few quests not wearing a hired morning coat . |
6 | For them this meeting may be one of the few contacts they have with the Church . |
7 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
8 | Britain , says Ash , must be one of the few countries where being ‘ too clever by half ’ is regarded as a stinging insult . |
9 | It is believed to be one of the few parasites which has become free-living . |
10 | ‘ I was totally wrong , it was immature , pure arrogance , ’ Souness confesses , in what must be one of the few confessions to take place inside Ibrox . |
11 | This would seem to be one of the few events that had any lasting emotional effect on him . |
12 | Not only will he be one of the few Democrats to win the presidency in the past 50 years but he will have humiliated an incumbent President in the process . |
13 | It will be one of the few practices that will be able to turn round and tell the FPC that it has got it wrong , claims its senior partner . |
14 | ‘ But they could be eighteen for a few moments . |