Example sentences of "few [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few pout and small flounder from Swanage Beach at night , a 6 lb 2 oz bass also reported . |
| 2 | Gilkicker and Browndown yielding a few pout and dabs after dark . |
| 3 | He 'd been all over town and had a few vocals left , a few guitar bits , and was rather disenchanted with the studio he was using . |
| 4 | Obviously , experimentation is going to yield better and better results , but few guitar players would find much trouble extracting a workable sound in a matter of minutes . |
| 5 | A few guitar scorch-squeals here , a lash of vocal venom there , ca n't wipe out my suspicions . |
| 6 | The great breadth of the river and few crossing points means that the Stir forms a defensive barrier and a natural border between Stirland to the south and Talabecland to the north . |
| 7 | This has not removed the danger of war but it has certainly perverted the concept of defence — there are few defence systems which are not actually war machines . |
| 8 | Then there was the partitioned living area with a few kitchen chairs , an oilstove , a larger wicker easy chair for ‘ the woman ’ in the corner , near the window that overlooked the wharf and the meadows . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , cultivators and labourers were drawn from all castes , and there were few caste monopolies . |
| 10 | The scientists stressed that it was little more than a laboratory curiosity , the energy coming from the fusion of only a few hydrogen atoms and ‘ was scarcely enough to register on highly sensitive measuring instruments ’ ; although the process had no immediate commercial value it suggested ‘ possible industrial uses of immeasurable importance ’ . |
| 11 | From one of olympic fame to another who works in a typing ool. hazel cooke from Gloucester has been given the British empire medal — for her efforts in one of those very few recession beating jobs — she works in the insolvency section of the department of Trade and Industry . |
| 12 | Few canopy trees in Costa Rica are bird-pollinated and those that are , are visited by passerines such as orioles , which travel in groups : hummingbirds would turn trees into individual feeding territories and thus reduce pollination . |
| 13 | We would give much for a few case histories , like that of the fourteenth-century merchant of Prato , of how a medieval household actually worked . |
| 14 | Languages which have elaborate systems of case inflections tend to have fewer restrictions on word order than languages like English which have very few case inflections . |
| 15 | A few case studies illustrate the process . |
| 16 | On the one hand , there has been the approach which emphasizes the complexity of financial accounting and thus produces many user groups ( which we might call the differential approach ) ; alternatively , there has been the approach which emphasizes the commonalities and produces few user groups ( which we might call the integral approach ) . |
| 17 | It was said that the few cabin passengers on board sailed under very different conditions . |
| 18 | A heavy paraffin fraction ( Nujol ) is often used as mulling agent , and its few absorption bands can usually be readily distinguished from those of the sample ( Fig. 5.10 ) . |
| 19 | Apart from a few bit parts , the rest would be real people . |
| 20 | And I waited till I 'd got a few bit more money to put in and sort of hid it amongst all these others , mm . |
| 21 | On reaching the peg which had stopped my fall , he made a few trial attempts with the skyhook , just to find out how it worked . |
| 22 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 23 | Deep in my stomach the whirling pits started a few trial revolutions and it was n't down to the meat pie I 'd had . |
| 24 | Meals-on-Wheels ( organised by WRVS ) were available only two days a week ; the social services department had only minimal provision for day care in a few Part III homes . |
| 25 | He said a few kind but ambiguous words about the pieces enclosed being ‘ eminently suitable for the audience they were aimed at ’ and left it at that . |
| 26 | If you simply do n't need the trace facility , and I suspect that few Spectrum users really will , then check out the screen-based programs and save a few bob into the bargain . |
| 27 | As well as the above scale type there are also a few arpeggio ideas employed . |
| 28 | I read on , and find that Bryan Gould , the ‘ modern ’ candidate , is sniping at John Smith 's redistributive budget , one of Labour 's few election promises that offered real benefits to the people of Tottenham . |
| 29 | And we 'll drop in on the way home to watch a few election results or do you think if I start having a party tomorrow night it 's gon na get out of hand ? |
| 30 | Very few Branch collecting sheets appear without the names of many cadets , and it is a great encouragement to know that so many are prepared to give up so much of their time to help the Association . |