Example sentences of "although [pron] be a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , the certainty one feels is normally misplaced , although there are a few instances when genuinely creative thinking has been documented as taking place during dreams . |
| 2 | It is unusual for the cost of extra fares to be given as a lump sum consolidated into salary , although there are a few firms in which this has been agreed . |
| 3 | Thus while many communities have labels to apply to various linguistic practices at different levels which are evaluated as good or bad by the community — for example , " grammatical " , " sloppy " , " drawl " , " h-dropping " — there seem to be very few or none which relate specifically to code-switching behaviour ( although there are a few terms , such as " Tex-Mex " , which refer to mixed varieties ) . |
| 4 | Ethnic differences are so striking that they are described separately in Chapter 12 , although there are a few references in the text below . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Everything works out in the end , although there are a few hiccups along the way . |
| 7 | The people heading for the square were mostly men although there were a few women , dressed in black . |