Example sentences of "[pron] [coord] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and obviously you and I and a few others , but erm |
| 2 | ‘ When I went to Grimsby , in the war , there was just me and a few students — invalided servicemen , some nice girlies just out of school — things were lovely . |
| 3 | There are seventeen of them and a few sketches . |
| 4 | She can spare you but a few minutes , she says — ’ the dowager-duchess had in fact said no such thing ‘ — but will see you at once . ’ |
| 5 | The possibility of establishing a taxon or class by fiat encourages anatomists to take one or a few specimens and subject them to very detailed dissection . |
| 6 | The boat went on without her and a few seconds later went down under the water . |
| 7 | Although he had not recognized her immediately Fleury had noticed Chloe a moment earlier as she came trotting into the clearing ; since he had last set eyes on her Chloe 's golden curls had grown foul and matted and in places mange had already begun to remove them ; a cloud of flies followed her and every few yards she stopped to scratch . |
| 8 | I tell the truth , honest I do ! " one was shouting , and it and a few others tugged at the lower edges of the few furs he still had on and pulling on his under-breeches where they appeared out of the top of his boots . |
| 9 | There was much to discuss , including Tom Poole 's proposal , in the end gratefully accepted , that he and a few friends should supply Coleridge with an annuity of £35 or £40 as a ‘ trifling mark of their esteem , gratitude and admiration ’ . |
| 10 | He and a few friends discovered that there was big money to be made by injecting humour into an area traditionally ignored by the British — teaching staff how to be more effective . |
| 11 | At a birthday party yesterday — on Kensington Woof Gardens — he and a few brothers and sisters handed £200,000 to Guide Dogs for the Blind for a new training centre in Southampton . |