Example sentences of "[conj] [art] few [noun pl] [pron] " 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 | He said that the few holes they had dug and refilled would not affect his crop and , more importantly , they were the best ‘ scarecrows ’ he 'd ever known ! |
| 3 | Wagstaff argues that the few studies which do appear to show modest improvement in recall under hypnosis failed to have control groups which were equally encouraged to remember . |
| 4 | I could tell you many tales of great joy and hope , but I could also give you far worse than the few examples I have mentioned here . |
| 5 | He was seated at the back of the court , initially angry that someone had screwed up with the tickets , but he quickly realized that every few games he was almost directly behind her . |
| 6 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 7 | From more than a few feet it was impossible to tell even the sex of the figure . |
| 8 | There are more than a few Hungarians who would happily revert to the good old days of Kadarism , when the Hungarian president , Janos Kadar ( 1956–1986 ) , offered the ‘ cheeriest barracks ’ in eastern Europe a relatively high standard of living in return for political passivity . |
| 9 | Daddy gone , Sambo gone , Mrs Dibdin gone — and the few relics we had left from the olden days all sold , and the house up for sale … ’ |
| 10 | The definition ‘ Bangladeshi ’ refers to infants whose mothers were born in Bangladesh , and the few mothers who were born or grew up in Britain . |
| 11 | The nurses and the few mothers who had managed to be available on Christmas Eve sang ragged and loud . |
| 12 | The State Department appears to have been riven between ‘ Arabists ’ and the few analysts who , like Mr Teicher , considered that Israel might prove at least as valuable a strategic ally as Iran , Iraq or Saudi Arabia . |
| 13 | We still use the old byre for milking and the few cows I keep do n't call for a new mechanical milker . |
| 14 | As early as 1910 , Mercereau had sent to Russia an exhibition of works by Gleizes , Metzinger and Le Fauconnier , and a few artists whose aims he felt to be similar . |
| 15 | In which case there would be no capital for him to start up again other than Tommy 's back pay and a few pounds he 'd managed to save himself . |
| 16 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 17 | No one can deny that thanks to Champollion and a few others we have succeeded in reading Egyptian hieroglyphics and that we know , in most cases , what they mean . |
| 18 | In the event , there were a few who wished to leave , and a few others who decided that other initial choices had been mistaken , and who wished to join . |
| 19 | I and a few others who only that morning had begun to look forward to a peaceful summer ahead , swiftly concluded that we must make some gesture of our own in order to demonstrate the feelings of many of our fellow conservative Members of Parliament . |
| 20 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 21 | So serene , in fact , that after we 'd had a meal at the bungalow and a few drinks my mother did something she 'd never done before . |
| 22 | He would imagine the dead bodies of some pop stars he had admired , his mother , and a few pets he had owned as a boy . |
| 23 | Sam spent the next morning poking his broom everywhere it was wanted and a few places it was n't until he had swept up several titbits of very interesting information . |
| 24 | Within two minutes the mob had completely dispersed , with the exception of the odd copper or two and a few stragglers who were loth to leave the scene of all the fun . |
| 25 | I touched my swollen lips and my ears and had a roll-call of my limbs , but apart from my hand , an incipient black eye and a few abrasions there was n't much evidence of my encounter with Russian free enterprise and Soviet cavalry . |
| 26 | Whereas up until a few months they were thinking of closing the engineering department |
| 27 | And every few hours I 'd get more shots . |
| 28 | Although he had not recognized her immediately Fleury had noticed Chloe a moment earlier as she came trotting into the clearing ; since he had last set eyes on her Chloe 's golden curls had grown foul and matted and in places mange had already begun to remove them ; a cloud of flies followed her and every few yards she stopped to scratch . |
| 29 | And there were other things ; saliva drooled from her lips and every few seconds she gave a retching cough . |
| 30 | This interest has kept the Mannheimian tradition alive if not exactly thriving and it seems as if every few years there is a revival of interest . |