Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 31 | I say ‘ the wife ’ with impunity as Doreen is one of the few wives I know who actually calls herself that . |
| 32 | That is a fact , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , one of the few facts I can swear to , though I find it impossible to explain . |
| 33 | I sat around picking over the few facts I knew . |
| 34 | ‘ He is one of the few teetotallers I know who can be entertaining after dinner . ’ |
| 35 | We still use the old byre for milking and the few cows I keep do n't call for a new mechanical milker . |
| 36 | The few reservations I have expressed about the encyclopedia are not intended to detract from its excellence . |
| 37 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 38 | Particularly , ’ she added cuttingly , ‘ since the few days I have been here I have found disagreeable in the extreme . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ Among the few books I took with me into the Desert was The Oxford Book of Modern Verse which you gave me . |
| 40 | We sat on a tree that had been felled and ate some very tasty ham sandwiches -one of the few picnics I have ever been to . |
| 41 | Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast . |
| 42 | In a few moments I was installed in a comfortable room about as near to the centre of Buda as it is possible to be . |
| 43 | For a few moments I was intensely conscious of the tree and saw nothing else . |
| 44 | Their arguments were faultless and after a few moments I felt myself drowning in doubt , drowning in the time trap surrounding the area . |
| 45 | For a few moments I was utterly terrified . |
| 46 | I did n't quite close the door , and after a few moments I could hear her footsteps walking briskly past . |
| 47 | For a few moments I had let my mind plunge into darkness , into a world where the experience of all my life was disproved and ghosts existed . |
| 48 | For a few moments I felt disappointment . |
| 49 | Within a few moments I was on a floater , crossing the fairly well-lit spaceport , still with no one in sight anywhere around me . |
| 50 | He disappeared into the stable and after a few moments I peeped inside . |
| 51 | For a few moments I was silent , feeling her sorrow , so discordant among the bright seasonal colours of this festive room . |
| 52 | Actually , I did n't like the way Diggs questioned me about what had happened , and for a few moments I thought he might have guessed , but my replies seemed to satisfy him . |
| 53 | In a few moments I 'd like to tell you briefly about the trading background to the figures and to give you an indication of how business has been since the period ended and particularly since our important sale started on Boxing Day . |
| 54 | er but no doubt we 'll have a few showers I 'm sure |
| 55 | There are a few scenes I 'd just like to run through before we break and — ’ |
| 56 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 57 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 58 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 59 | I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured . |
| 60 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |