Example sentences of "[art] few [adj] men " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the shipmasters were dead , and three wounded ; but the last was by chance one of the few uninjured men , and could be left in charge of all for the moment . |
| 2 | And indeed it would seem that it was only at about this time , in the Europe of the late-sixteenth century , that a few thoughtful men first began to think seriously about the moral nature of mankind as a whole , as against the older , narrower concept of the moral nature of " ourselves " , God 's chosen people , ranged against " the others " , the barbarians , who were only part men , unnatural monsters , beasts . |
| 3 | Remember the fighting qualities of the Maccabeans ; think of the Warsaw ghetto and the amazing resistance therein of a few ordinary men and women who fought a whole battalion of Nazi storm-troopers , while Polish people stood by and wondered at such bravery . |
| 4 | The break-up of the coalition and Churchill 's formation of a ‘ caretaker ’ government , consisting largely of his Conservative supporters together with just a few non-party men , followed almost at once . |
| 5 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 6 | They were getting the best of it , too , for there were only serving-people left and a few armed men , since the rest went off north with the courier . |
| 7 | There were a few young men who developed female characteristics , unconsciously perhaps at first but certainly consciously when they became aware of the power that these gave them . |
| 8 | Quite a few young men paid her attention and wanted to court her , but rather than be out ‘ winching ’ ( courting ) she preferred the company of mother and the family . |
| 9 | A few other men , |
| 10 | DeNiro 's also rumoured to be competing with James Woods for the villain role in Rob Reiner 's film version of the Broadway smash A Few Good Men . |
| 11 | Signed as a location manager for Rob Reiner 's A Few Good Men , with Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore , Mr Reiner decided that Mr Bodison would make a great performer . |
| 12 | A Few Good Men |
| 13 | COURTROOM drama A Few Good Men starring Tom Cruise and Demi Moore , above , took £7 million in three days to beat off opposition from Mel Gibson , Steve Martin and Robin Williams to be No 1 in America 's movie top 10 in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 14 | Hollywood glamour couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman , 25 , steal a kiss at the premiere of 30-year-old Cruise 's latest film A Few Good Men . |
| 15 | JACK NICHOLSON 'S latest blockbuster A Few Good Men smashed box office records taking £10.6 million over its opening weekend . |
| 16 | Cruise had already picked up £8 million and Moore was paid Pounds 1.5 million for A Few Good Men . |
| 17 | A Few Good Men , David Brown , Rob Reiner , Andrew Scheinman . |
| 18 | Jack Nicholson ( A Few Good Men ) |
| 19 | It was dark and dirty , with a few rough-looking men in the bar . |
| 20 | It further characterized the Campaign as being the personal machine of a few wealthy men , particularly of Strauss , Strachey , Cripps and Gollancz . |
| 21 | A few lonely men nursing a half-empty glass patted the floor in time to the music . |
| 22 | When that did n't halt the disintegration they got a few able-bodied men from the village to help , but after a while it was obvious that much more radical repair was needed . |
| 23 | The rapid growth of adult missions and societies prompted a few determined men led by James Paul to found the National Deaf and Dumb Society in 1879 , with James Paul as the first secretary . |
| 24 | A few wild men playing a violent game . |
| 25 | Only a young Jewish girl , her betrothed husband , a handful of shepherds , and a few wise men had any inkling who had arrived . |
| 26 | A NORTH-east farmer wants a few wise men from Scotland to take a behind-the-scenes look at farming in EC member states to see how counterparts are faring with the rules and regulations . |
| 27 | It is they who hold dialogue with establishment spokesmen , sitting side by side with white experts and a few Asian men on the ‘ problems ’ and ‘ needs ’ of Asian women . |
| 28 | And what 's more , if she 'd been about in your time , instead of that man , nice little Neville Chamberlain , she 'd have given your old Hitler a few right-handers below the belt ; and seen to it that Britain was armed to the teeth , with an airforce twice the size of the Luftwaffe instead of a few old men with pitch forks and a handful of plucky chaps like yourself to keep the Nazis out . |
| 29 | A few old men dozed on benches . |
| 30 | In the white pubs are mainly young kids , with a few old men and just one or two middle-aged . |