Example sentences of "[prep] those few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing could make clearer the extent of God 's commitment to his world than the appearance of the Jacob stories so hard on the heels of those few stories about Isaac . |
| 2 | The memory of those few hours is etched on my mind . |
| 3 | If you are really fond of her , then you know that you will both give each other pleasure simply by being together for a while , but you must be prepared to give much more of yourself to the conduct of those few hours than you probably would in other social circumstances . |
| 4 | As autumn approaches , those of us with children have to leave the relaxed , informal and often cold and damp atmosphere of the pub garden in search of those few pubs which admit children somewhere within their four walls . |
| 5 | Liam thought long afterwards of the strangeness of those few days , and how he was brought back from what was to be a trip to America , just in time to arrange his own father 's funeral . |
| 6 | He flipped back the pages of his note-book , and found the scrappy diary of those few days . |
| 7 | At the same time the appetite of those few readers for books in their category will not necessarily be any smaller than that of readers in a large interest category . |
| 8 | Mr Kinnock is one of those few politicians , Mrs Thatcher and Mr Heseltine among them , who seem to enjoy meeting ordinary people . |
| 9 | A flow of records ensued , including a posthumous Sid Vicious album , Sid Sings , and sundry repackagings of those few songs which the group had actually recorded , wringing the cash cow dry , as Richard Branson later pointed out with some irony , ‘ in just the spirit of the Swindle Malcolm had always talked about ’ . |
| 10 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |
| 11 | But for Frances the impact of those few words felt like a cold and heartless rejection . |
| 12 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't care about the baby , ’ Philip said , and with those few words he doomed his unborn son . |
| 14 | With those few words , Paul revolutionized the idea of the church . |
| 15 | It seemed to Sam that she looked the tall girl over very intently during those few moments , but then most people looked twice at Evelyn , not because she was especially beautiful but she had a kind of composure unusual in a street girl . |
| 16 | Whatever Coleridge 's precise setting during those few days , the autumn landscape of Culbone drew from him an immediate poetic response . |
| 17 | The apparent liberalism of Morrissey would seem to be a touch out of vogue here , although a hardening of his attitudes was clear during those few weeks . |
| 18 | But even during those few seconds when he is changing he is on one horse or the other . |
| 19 | But he was n't , and during those few seconds while he 'd held her , she 'd had to admit this growing physical attraction she felt for him . |
| 20 | For those few moments , as Zero 's invisible brethren attentively scan and store his transmitted data , he is no longer a wimp . |
| 21 | For those few moments life seemed not to be quite the noisome beast it had become of late — the pale November sun was a warming coin in the palm , fear was forgotten , bloodshed cleansed away , losses solaced . |
| 22 | But at least for those few moments he had shown as human , like other men . |
| 23 | For those few moments the atmosphere had changed , was as comfortable as in the Ayling days . |
| 24 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 25 | I knew myself to be , for those few hours , Queen of his heart . |
| 26 | You only want a little one for those few tins . ’ |
| 27 | His hands were careful and restrained , his mouth tender , and although only a very short while later , Cassie was to realize just how much self-control he had exerted at that moment of their first real physical contact , for those few minutes , she knew only that she was not afraid of him , nor even suspected that there was any need to be . |
| 28 | Screening high risk individuals by colonoscopic methods is an established procedure , but identification is crude except for those few families with hereditary colorectal cancer . |
| 29 | Since more than 90% of vaccines produce anti-HBs , routine post-vaccination screening is appropriate only for those few persons in whom suboptimal response is likely and whose medical management or employment duties hinge upon knowledge of their immune status . |
| 30 | ‘ Only for those few feet outside . |