Example sentences of "few [noun pl] of [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ice fishing , I find , is as cold as anything I have ever tried in the Arctic , and after a few minutes of unproductive ass-freezing I pack it in . |
| 2 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | During the first few months of this year I made extensive fuel consumption checks and my overall mpg is 22.73 . |
| 5 | One of the few areas of common ground which both Keynes and Friedman occupy centres on the definition of a state of overall full employment : full employment prevails when the aggregate supply of labour , L s , equals the aggregate demand for labour , L d , at a unique , market clearing real wage rate , w * ; . |
| 6 | There were few evaluations of successful innovation which matched , for instance , the clarity of Warburton and Southgate ( 1969 ) in their work on the initial teaching alphabet . |
| 7 | He was offering her a few days of physical pleasure which would only leave her thirsty for more . |
| 8 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 11 | The Malthusian of June 1914 estimated that 100,000 women a year took drugs to induce miscarriage , and there were suggestions at the time that there were few mothers of large families who had not attempted abortion . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Let me give a few examples of vanished empires which at the time seemed invincible . |
| 14 | As Orcs keep few records of any kind it is uncertain what happened to Gorbad . |
| 15 | The few moments of past closeness which they had shared had always left her emotionally upside-down and , inevitably , angry . |