Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 31 | One younger Welsh hill farmer used to go up ‘ to help his father in evenings with the few cattle they had ’ , but afterwards at supper the older man expected the grandchildren to keep silent , and if they spoke ‘ he 'd look at us fiercely . ’ |
| 32 | The evening was enjoyed by all , with Sony requesting a return match , confident that with a few changes they can win the cup back . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Moran was unassertive and attentive in the few minutes they discussed the game afterwards . |
| 35 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 36 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |
| 37 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
| 38 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
| 39 | Within a few hours they had 50 signatures . |
| 40 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
| 41 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 42 | ‘ You 're safe now — only another step or two ! ’ they heard Chuck call out , and within a few seconds they were both thankfully flinging their arms round the firm , strongly rooted trunks of the saplings on the ridge . |
| 43 | Within a few seconds they had all vanished into tiny , black holes . |
| 44 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
| 45 | The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus . |
| 46 | Within a few weeks they were regular visitors . |
| 47 | Walt Disney organises two to three raids a month on Thai pirates ; but according to Brandt Handley , head of Walt Disney 's consumer products division in South-East Asia , in most cases ‘ within a few weeks they are back at it again under another name and location . ’ |
| 48 | Within a few weeks they had put Pedro to flight and Henry was crowned king . |
| 49 | Within a few months they moved to the east coast of Scotland where they were allocated a large stretch of coastline , from Rosyth to Montrose , to protect from the very real threat of German invasion . |
| 50 | In a few cases they were even using corporate planning techniques to reshape the political face of their councils in ways never envisaged by the Bains or Paterson Reports . |
| 51 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 52 | Functionally the antennae are organs of special -sense ( Schneider , 1964 ; see also p. 139 ) but in a few cases they are modified for other uses . |
| 53 | In most cases these skills were of a very general nature ; in a few cases they were highly specific to the particular organisation . |
| 54 | The early railway unions that emerged during the 1890s were generally socialist in orientation , although in a few cases they were anarcho-syndicalist . |
| 55 | The happy landowner can then stand at the window smoking a pipe and wave cheerily at the unwelcome hill-walkers , secure in the knowledge that in a few minutes they will be heading back to the car , steam gently rising from them as they blink in distress from behind grisly face-masks of dung . |
| 56 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
| 57 | In a few minutes they were on a smaller road , with the lough in view . |
| 58 | In a few minutes they 'd left behind the head office of Chester Fabrics , driven past the fire-blackened fabric printing plant and escaped into the lush green countryside on the way back to Armscott Manor , the rambling Cotswold home of the Chesters for three generations . |
| 59 | In a few minutes they 'll have a car rush , as 90 cars race through the streets . |
| 60 | In a few moments they heard a car start up and drive away . |