Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legislation protects their consciences , and in charity makes financial provision for the few priests who will feel that they must leave . |
| 2 | Soon Downes had reached the last carriage , in front of the diesel locomotive , staring quickly through the windows of the compartment as the few doors still remaining open were banged shut and a whistle blew , and with a slight chug and then with a mighty heave the long , north-bound train began slowly to move forward , gradually picking up a little speed , before moving out and away along the curving stretch of line that led to Banbury . |
| 3 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 4 | He admitted the murder in the few words he spoke to the people . |
| 5 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
| 6 | She also sewed clothes for toys and puppets , tiny dresses and jackets for anthropomorphic bears and monkeys and robes and mantles in silks and velvets for the few puppets they sold in the shop and gowns and breeches for the tall puppets who performed in the theatre . |
| 7 | Some people did expect an awful lot from those youngsters for the few shillings they paid them . |
| 8 | Paying off the debt meant cutting consumption at home of the few things which were imported and almost anything which might be exported . |
| 9 | Invitations come via playgroups but parents of the few children who do not attend one can contact the headteacher , Margaret Sutton , at the school . |
| 10 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 11 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 12 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 13 | Even within these areas , there is smaller-scale , shorter-distance commuting for the few jobs in the larger villages and the smaller towns . |
| 14 | The range of humane and other qualities most admired is best illustrated by the contents of the few obituaries carried in its pages . |
| 15 | This finding may have clinical importance in the few patients who have pronounced hypergastrinaemia because of profound long acting acid inhibition . |
| 16 | This finding may be of clinical importance in the few patients who have severe hypergastrinaemia as a result of long acting profound acid inhibition . |
| 17 | Such a strategy recognizes both the negative attitudes of local planners to industrial development in the open countryside and also the advantages of concentrating investment in infrastructure in the few locations that have reasonably large labour markets . |
| 18 | And plants exploit the Thames in the few areas where tidal scouring is not too great : the LNHS has recorded wild and garden angelica ( Angelica sylvestris and A. archangetica ) and hemlock water dropwort ( Oenanthe crocata ) at Battersea . |
| 19 | Alternatively or additionally subjects may genuinely feel that there is greater subjective difference within the few films they have given high ratings to than within the many they have given lower ratings to and have been at least partially successful in avoiding what Poulton ( 1989 ) terms equal frequency biases . |
| 20 | His podgy , clean-nailed fingers locked together and formed a vaulted shrine over the few pages of notes that contained my Mother 's life . |
| 21 | The evidence from the few areas that have been bored or surveyed geophysically supports this view , but other evidence does not fit so well . |
| 22 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Researchers working with this substance set about trying to remove a fertilized ovum from a woman during the few days that elapse between actual conception and the implantation of the cell into the uterus — where it must be to develop into an infant — and then replacing it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She moved up the stairs past the few skins that lay on a table and made her way into the office . |
| 28 | This section first compares prevalence in Wirral with the few studies of rates of opioid use in other parts of the UK , and then turns to an examination of the characteristics of opioid users in different areas . |
| 29 | His heavily built wife showed me my room and soon I was on the end of a bench in the small dark restaurant , supping soup with the few day-trippers ; listening to their stories . |
| 30 | Advice on living arrangements in the few weeks before departure may be necessary . |