Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [prep] [det] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 2 | The language that most of the home computers are used with is BASIC , and although there are a few words in that language which look like English words , like ‘ If ’ and ‘ Let ’ and ‘ Go to ’ and perhaps some others depending on the dialect of BASIC that you have , these words do not work in the way that ordinary English speakers are used to . |
| 3 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 4 | Here they had to part with their horses , for of course there could be accommodation for only a few animals in this castle itself . |
| 5 | Samuel is one of the few informants in this study who was actually born in Jamaica and spent several years there . |
| 6 | It seems that every few decades in this country we have a major battle over divorce law reform . |
| 7 | ‘ That is one of the exceptions , made by one of the few directors in this country who has huge energy , a great deal of talent and knows how to address an audience . |
| 8 | A major part of the effort in user education in university and polytechnic libraries is the preparation of guides to the subject literature , guides to individual reference works , guides to particular forms of literature , guides to techniques of information handling etc , and there are few libraries in these sectors who do not have at least a dozen in current production . |
| 9 | Gary arranged for the well-known warbird pilot John Crocker to ferry the aircraft across the Atlantic for me , John being one of the few pilots at that time who could be insured to undertake such a flight . ’ |
| 10 | A few weeks after that incident we received a so-called hot tipoff that an illegal immigrant run was to be made the following night " somewhere between the Thames and Lowestoft ! " |
| 11 | I spend part of the afternoon in the refreshment tent , enjoying a few reminiscences with some mates I have n't seen since Moses 's big match against Pharaoh 's magicians . |
| 12 | In a year and a half of reading the literature on small schools , I have come across very few studies of any kind which purport to empirically test any aspect of these three assertions . |
| 13 | ‘ The bottom line ’ , says one western ambassador , ‘ is that he is one of the few leaders on this continent who appears to care about his people and we therefore trust him to do the right thing . ’ |
| 14 | At that time there were very few courses of any kind which recognised the value of an ability to communicate with members of different linguistic communities resident in Britain in their preferred language : the only academic institutions offering any kind of training for the teaching of community languages such as Bengali , Chinese , Greek , Gujarati , Hindi , Italian , Panjabi , Polish , Portuguese , Spanish , Turkish and Urdu ( as used in Britain ) were the bodies who had supported the initiative of the Royal Society of Arts in piloting a Certificate in the Teaching of Urban Educational Studies in the Inner London Education Authority , Moray House College in Edinburgh , Middlesex Polytechnic and St. John 's College of Further Education in Manchester . |
| 15 | There will be very few privacies in this family which wo n't be relevant to your investigation , Commander . ’ |
| 16 | In all probability there were always a few freeholders in any county who could be prevailed upon in this way to swing their votes behind a candidate who offered a guarantee of advantage . |
| 17 | As Orcs keep few records of any kind it is uncertain what happened to Gorbad . |
| 18 | Had I an opportunity I should have great pleasure in giving you a few hints on this subject which might not be useless . |
| 19 | One is the actual career breaks that happen for any woman , unless she is in a very highly paid job , where she can afford child care of her own , or unless she 's in those very few jobs in this country which actually erm are with employees who are responsible enough to either provide their own child care , or to allow women those sorts of career breaks in order to bring up children . |