Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] those few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harbour improvements continued alongside the thriving coastal trade , but the biggest investment necessarily came in those few ports which dominated overseas trade . |
| 2 | The eye-witness accounts of what happened in those few minutes naturally vary in many details , but one of the most reliable descriptions of the actual eruption of the cloud was that of Monsieur Roger Arnoux , a member of the Astronomical Society of France , who was observing from a vantage point well above and away from the town . |
| 3 | We will ensure that access to literature , religion and the creative arts is limited to those few children who are capable of appreciating them , and whose parents can afford to pay the extra costs involved . |
| 4 | The settlement er in all probability as we established yesterday morning , could not go within those few fields which are in the Greater York area and not in the greenbelt . |
| 5 | You see , I think I was in such a state after glancing at those few pages simply because I did n't read any more . |
| 6 | Her sister did not reply , confused by the question , and the anxiety that had been aroused by those few moments , during which two men had helped old Eleanor Thorne down the front path and into a waiting ambulance . |
| 7 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
| 8 | And there 'll also be at the club tomorrow morning an antiquarian bookseller , a dealer in manuscripts , and an expert in drawings , to see if there 's been the hanky-panky suggested by those few notes about Fishbane . ’ |