Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MESSAGE BEGINS STOP EGG NOW LAID AND INCUBATING NICELY STOP EXPECT HATCHING IN FEW WEEKS STOP SUGGEST YOU CONTACT AVIARY AND BEGIN SELECTING SPECIMEN STOP TUES 1100 EST STOP MANVILLE APD/ 3700925/WP MESSAGE ENDS |
| 2 | While this is due in small measure to the axing of TOPS awards and the establishment of new courses leading to post-graduate diplomas which have attracted students who would otherwise have enrolled on a DMS course , the main reason has been the decline in the economy which has resulted in few companies being willing to sponsor students to undertake the course . |
| 3 | For the hundreds of thousands of Spanish — and non-Spanish — democrats and leftists who fought and died in the Civil War or in the horrendous repression that followed , the forces against which they struggled differed in few essentials from those that had recently brought dictatorship and oppression to Italy , Germany and Austria . |
| 4 | Well I think er well we 've got ta er I think we 've got ta few points , there 's , there 's one on stock lending which we think needs to be looked at . |
| 5 | That commodities such as simple sardine or anchovy butter which we had hitherto regarded as sandwich fillings , egg dishes which belonged to the breakfast table , the bed-sitting room or the night club , and little hot dishes which were ordinary English family supper savouries were valuable resources which could be quite differently deployed and offered as party dishes were ideas which had occurred to few people in pre-Boulestin days : |