Example sentences of "few [noun pl] of [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food . |
| 2 | They have both been to school and like to speak their few words of English when their elders are not looking . ) |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This is especially important during the first few weeks of pregnancy when you might not even know you are pregnant . |
| 10 | ‘ I only had a few glasses of wine and I 'm sure the police waited for me . |
| 11 | ‘ Cheap , ’ Rose replied , quoting the pusher , ‘ the price of a few gallons of petrol and you 're off to paradise . ’ |
| 12 | Norman Pinder was creeping through the last few yards of shrubbery before he would reach the window of the small seminar room . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And you know if we were able to commit ourselves to two public , two meetings , three meetings of some sort in a year where we 're actually gon na do something and present some sort of front Par part of presenting some sort of front is to try to sell a few bits of pieces if we 're prepared to accept that we 're going to lose money . |
| 16 | ‘ You must be one of the few friends of Gamal that I do n't know . ’ |
| 17 | Everything was apparently under control until the last few seconds of flight and he was so busy trying to sort it out that fear had no time to grow . |
| 18 | Oh got to produce a few sheets of stuff and we 've got ta get the addresses of the bases and get it distributed and it 's a task I 'm gon na pass on |
| 19 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |