Example sentences of "few old " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was in demand as a confessor , from a few parishioners , a few neighbouring clergy , a few old students at Lincoln . |
| 2 | But how to wring new information from a few old pieces of vellum and papyrus ? |
| 3 | There were only a few old women in the office . |
| 4 | He just sat for a while in a sort of communal TV room with a few old loons . |
| 5 | I 'll stay here an' settle a few old scores with our precious Mayor an' all ! ’ |
| 6 | There were , for example , very few old Sitka spruce in the Commission 's forests because the rotation of the plantation was only some 35–55 years . |
| 7 | Some of the descriptions are devastating : Alford is a ‘ small , uneventful market town ’ ; Beelsby , ‘ a few old houses and plenty of recent infill for the Grimsby commuter ’ ; Fosdyke , ‘ an austere village in remote and forbidding Fen country ’ ; and Mablethorpe , ‘ famed for its sand , certainly not for its architecture ’ . |
| 8 | Today , few old stations survive . |
| 9 | Today there are very few old buildings so structurally unsound that they can not be saved . |
| 10 | It was the availability of local steel and the advent of steam power that gave Glasgow the incentive to dredge and widen the river in order to transform its few old boatyards into one of the world 's great shipbuilding centres . |
| 11 | Briercrest is slowly dying … just a few old widows there now … not one living soul lives on the farms any more … all the old men are dead … but the old girls still have their little teas and their Ladies ' Aid meetings … have gardens and are happy as larks … |
| 12 | There are a few old June records , but none since 1947 . |
| 13 | There are a few old records for November , the latest being for 27 November 1844 at Rottingdean , and there are about four winter records , but only two since 1900 , one in 1908 and one at Cissbury on 9 December 1973 . |
| 14 | There were , with the tiny crucifix , a few old and tattered Bibles , some rosary beads and , on holy pamphlets , the images of saints . |
| 15 | Secondly , just because a few old vegetables have survived so long , it does n't mean we should try and resurrect all the others . |
| 16 | That included a few old but comfortable easy chairs for the meeting area , plus a coffee table , a kettle and cups . |
| 17 | A few old people watched with impassive faces , as though they no longer felt anything , but most of the people were in high spirits , talking and laughing . |
| 18 | Tobacco was for men and a few old tinker women who sucked on a pipe . |
| 19 | Is the fact that so few old people seem to express such strong positive feelings in itself significant of social , cultural and emotional deprivation ? |
| 20 | To snare a few old fans , then , this reissue is packaged by Mercury Rev 's new label with ‘ Lego My Ego ’ , an hour of Peel session tracks , live epics and odd singles , that is not just more of the same , rather the same — but more so . |
| 21 | Nothing to be scared of , just a few old trees , though Uncle Nick used to be scared sometimes , on the way down . |
| 22 | Just a few old trees . |
| 23 | He brought with him into the Treasury few old prejudices beyond the self-confidence of his conviction that whatever he believed in at a particular time was right . |
| 24 | This is one of the reasons for the choice of hymns and other music being so often limited to a few old war-horses . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Giving their children a few old pennies works wonders , as does showing them the pieces of jagged cans one finds on these places . |
| 27 | In the darkness of the church — there were only a few old women praying , oblivious of what went on around them — one of the girls took the note and quickly hid it in her knickers . |
| 28 | Quite a few old ones up there there was , even up on the left-hand side . |
| 29 | A fortnight later Doctor Jekyll gave a dinner party for a few old friends . |
| 30 | He upped the price of all his unsold pictures by twenty-five per cent , borrowed a few old ones from their owners and painted some large , meretricious canvases to make a splash . |