Example sentences of "few [noun pl] of [noun] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
| 2 | Moxon showed few signs of discomfort during his 231-ball innings but his blackened finger afterwards was testimony to the fact that he had played in pain . |
| 3 | After about half an hour 's unsteady plodding along the sand , leaving dinosaur hoofprints and a small steaming roundabout in the middle of the beach , my buffalo turned back for home , slotted a few heads of corn into his cheeks by the way of reward and let me dismount . |
| 4 | There was little Luch could do , apart from laying aside a few blocks of honeycomb for her . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought if I planted a few seeds of jealousy in your mind it might just drive you into my arms that little bit sooner . ’ |
| 6 | Daedalus is designing a novel house extension , a variable-pressure bedroom , which may purchase an extra few years of life for its proud owners by slowing the metabolic rate of that third of their lifetime which they spend asleep . |
| 7 | A few years of storms with plenty of rain would probably have undermined this place anyway . |
| 8 | I shall place a few grains of corn on her head and allow the hen to peck them off her scalp for a minute or two . |
| 9 | By then , though , many communities had their clubs and institutes , among the few places of pleasure on their barren landscape , or miners ' " casinos ' , as one aggrieved Durham clergyman called them . |
| 10 | I drink the last few drops of water from my flask . |
| 11 | To polish the edge , use a piece of hardwood with a few drops of oil on it . |
| 12 | Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi . |
| 13 | He put two ashtrays full of smouldering butts either side of the field of combat , and sprinkled a few drops of fuel from his lighter on each . |
| 14 | There were few terms of reference for our operations and no previous squad activity to base our actions on . |
| 15 | Well , she thought , it wo n't be difficult to judge how right I am , if I pay out a few yards of line for him . |
| 16 | I 've lifted a few sacks of taters in me time , but I do n't reckon to lift thee ! ’ |
| 17 | He was dark-haired with a few strands of hair on his upper lip . |
| 18 | There were just a few strands of grey in his hair , faint lines around his eyes and the sensuous mouth . |
| 19 | You must then use these few seconds of relief from your negative thoughts to employ a more long term means of distraction to prevent the thoughts returning . |
| 20 | How ironic that she felt so alive in Piers 's company , the one man who could shrug her off as carelessly as he would shrug off a few flecks of sand from his T-shirt . |
| 21 | ‘ Largo II ’ by Jan Sluijter , recently on loan to the Stedelijk Museum , is one of the few examples of Futurism in his work ( est . |
| 22 | Below and above him were overhangs ; he had lost all his equipment ; the few inches of rock beneath his feet threatened to crumble away ; a blizzard tore at him constantly ; his situation was entirely hopeless . |
| 23 | Leapor 's poetry records a few occasions of anger during her employment at Edgcote House . |
| 24 | I saw that there were a few patches of shadow around me that could have been crammed with evil doers . |