Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [prep] the few " in BNC.
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1 | There is no such thing , mind you , as private property for nine tenths of the population : its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence for those nine tenths . |
2 | Ratners does most of its business in the few short weeks before Christmas . |
3 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
4 | For example , of all the spare-time activities reported by affluent workers and their wives in the few days before being interviewed 62 per cent were in or about the home itself . |
5 | In his amateur days he was an ‘ eviction technician ’ ( a fashionable euphemism for bouncer ) but such work is regarded as unseemly for the standard bearer of a sport which prides itself in its healthy clean-living image , and he now supplements his income from the few competitions which pay more than a pittance by personal appearances . |
6 | Instead , George concentrated his efforts on the few remaining furry areas on an otherwise bare bear . |
7 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
8 | He eventually got the girl to agree to a date and walked around with an idiot smile on his face for the few weeks beforehand . |