Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Having completed his course , he found that there were few vacancies for horticulturists and he is once again on the dole . |
2 | There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food . |
3 | Crowninshield walked a few paces in silence until he was standing under the palms which edged the lagoon . |
4 | They have both been to school and like to speak their few words of English when their elders are not looking . ) |
5 | My hon. Friend the Minister for Public Transport may say a few words about funding if he feels that it is appropriate . |
6 | In a year or two he should have a decent sized flock — of course he 's not normally down here this early , he only has a bit of a stable down here that he rents for the summer along with his few acres of grass and his bit of land for cultivation . |
7 | United Biscuits was one of the few fallers after confirmation that it had sold its Terry 's chocolate division to Kraft of the U.S. in a deal worth £220 million . |
8 | There were a few areas of life where he had not been involved — his interests ranged from Stockport Infirmary to the Territorial Army , Stockport Lads ' Club to the Boy Scouts , the Trustee Savings Bank to the NSPCC . |
9 | The other evening , with the help of a lot of film , he put the spotlight on a very few areas of endeavour where he thought we might be actually going right . |
10 | Nowadays , struggling on in the name of Islamic socialism , Algeria is a place of austerity , one of the few countries on earth where you ca n't get Coca-Cola . |
11 | To be fair most of us were P C's for quite a few years without radios and we worked out extremely well did n't we , without those radios |
12 | I know if I get into trouble again I 'll be done for the arson charge and breach of probation , and that means a few years in jail and I could n't handle it . |
13 | Sitting near the window , with its view of the fire escape , smoking a joint he 'd bought in an amusement arcade , he wrote in a notebook about visiting Spanish towns , and the beaches , then about the few days in London because his imagination ran out on Spain with the end of the brochure about flamenco dancing and bullfights , and because what he was doing was more immediate . |
14 | And then we stayed a few days in London and we went to the Baths and we went to the zoo and we went to all the science , by either the old trams or the first of the buses that Cos they complete with tram-riding and that was rather exciting in London , seeing the all the top hats and people in coats , tails and things . |
15 | They spent those few days in Blackpool and she last saw him as he left for duty from Chester station . |
16 | They spent those few days in Blackpool and she last saw him as he left for duty from Chester railway station . |
17 | Of course , these things can happen really , er especially if er , one of two of the guests , I 'm not suggesting your mother 's guests er over-imbibed , but one or two of the guests do have a few jars over Christmas and they get up to all sorts of things in the house do n't they ? |
18 | Finally the road turns away and makes a long and rough descent , with Loch Hourn dramatically in view ahead , to the few buildings of Kinlochhourn where there is life but no sign of it . |
19 | Children may be given tetanus vaccination in the first few weeks of life and its importance is underlined by its inclusion in the primary recommended vaccination schedules which begins at two months . |
20 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
21 | This is especially important during the first few weeks of pregnancy when you might not even know you are pregnant . |
22 | But that particular day she did n't know beforehand , this was planned a few weeks in advance as you can imagine . |
23 | THERE are few guarantees in politics but it is a more than reasonable bet that John Major and Bill Clinton will both be smiling and behaving as if they are buddies when they give a press conference at the White House tomorrow afternoon . |
24 | ‘ I only had a few glasses of wine and I 'm sure the police waited for me . |
25 | ‘ Cheap , ’ Rose replied , quoting the pusher , ‘ the price of a few gallons of petrol and you 're off to paradise . ’ |
26 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |
27 | Until now few agreements between artists and their dealers were written down , but the decision by Sonnabend gallery to sue artist Peter Halley for breach of contract and damages may change all this . |
28 | This book does contain a few games with winners but I must say that , on the whole , I do not like elimination games . |
29 | With just a few bits of metal and lots of imagination , Meccano addicts can build anything from a replica of Blackpool Tower to a Lancaster bomber . |
30 | Then I asked , as we were going to go from century to century , if I could be allowed to collect a few bits of paraphernalia as we went along — odd little items that had taken my fancy which would then turn up in other stories . |