Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In this country it is only the older , the inherited rich or a few intellectuals who are relaxed enough to think about the unprivileged . |
2 | Cottle was interested and a few weeks later was invited to London where he was offered a job in the Foreign office , doing something , somewhere . |
3 | All my womenfolk are at least six inches taller and a few sizes bigger than you . ’ |
4 | They found swimming normally impossible and a few hours later they died . |
5 | Third , since the APB wants to ensure that the debate which it intends the paper to stimulate does not get confined to the Big Six and a few others , it is to go on a whistlestop tour of the country over the next three months , holding discussion meetings with interested parties . |
6 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |
7 | The Club and Institute Union was officially formed in London on June 14 , 1862 and a few months later Henry Solly resigned his pulpit at the English Presbyterian Church in Lancaster to become the first fulltime paid secretary of the Union . |
8 | So just a few ideas , not let you know exhaustive but a few ideas to be aware of you 've got appropriate . |
9 | You must always include one Warlord , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or a few characters as you wish . |
10 | It must have been about fifteen to twenty feet deep and a few feet across . |
11 | Schools in all but a few pockets of the county are expected to find enough people willing to stand for election in September when 1,600 governors are due to be appointed . |
12 | The problem here is not so much to prevent partners leaving before reaching retirement age ( any such general prohibition would be unrealistically restrictive in all but a few firms ) as to ensure that as little damage is done to the firm as possible when they do . |
13 | The Scottish Institute , however , feels that the system is ‘ satisfactory in all but a few cases ’ . |
14 | As suggested above , one of the central planks in Lord Devlin 's argument that the law does not simply exist to protect the individual , but also to protect society , was the fact that in all but a few cases the victim may not consent to the commission of an offence against themselves . |
15 | In all but a few cases their treason had been petty , enlisting in the German ranks after being taken prisoner or something of that sort . |
16 | In all but a few cases interviews were taped . |
17 | In all but a few cases , a solution will be provided immediately or within a couple of hours . |
18 | Registered land conveyancing is delightfully simple , both as to deducing and investigation of title , and official forms are obtainable that , with minor adaptation , will serve in all but a few cases . |
19 | But it had been proved to the satisfaction of all but a few sceptics that such an event would result in an effect similar to the collapse of a dwarf star . |
20 | The moon was not yet up and a high , thin bank of cloud obscured all but a few stars . |
21 | For example , foreign electronics firms have pre-empted the creation of a domestically-owned electronics industry in all but a few countries . |
22 | Political society formed a complex network of lordship and service , in which all but a few misfits had some place . |
23 | Political society formed a complex network of lordship and service , in which all but a few misfits had some place . |
24 | The writings of one of the great visionaries of the period , the Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , were not allowed to be published and he remained little more than a name , if even that , to all but a few scholars . |
25 | For all but a few weeks in the year there is the demand of regular attendances and rehearsals , often at unsocial hours , as well as regular private practice . |
26 | Conventional programs ( Fig. 2 ) embed the knowledge in the instructions , making it very difficult for all but a few programmers to understand the logic of the program . |
27 | All but a few households in Britain relied for heating on solid fuel fires in the principal room , and few considered it necessary to heat bedrooms or bathrooms continuously , even in winter . |
28 | For all but a few types the LOB corpus alone is too small a source from which to reliably derive information about how likely a word is to belong to a particular grammatical category ( many words in the LOB occur just once ) . |
29 | The would-be island , now with hermetically sealed borders and excluding all but a few tourists , is full of noises . |
30 | The only difference between the groups was that those in E were generally a little older and a few females were also to be found there . |