Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] those few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem then to fall to those staff who happen to be bilingual , or to those few teachers who are actually engaged in the teaching of community languages , to raise general awareness in the few schools in which they are deployed . |
| 2 | Screening high risk individuals by colonoscopic methods is an established procedure , but identification is crude except for those few families with hereditary colorectal cancer . |
| 3 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |
| 4 | She could swear , that in those few seconds before the interruption , Fen had been as aware of her as she of him . |
| 5 | And for those few women who parrot their words . |
| 6 | And for those few hours after she got home she found she could talk to her mother properly for the first time in over two years . |
| 7 | From 1926 to 1930 she shared her ideas about colour with the painter Christopher Wood and for those few years their work looked similar . |
| 8 | But he was n't , and during those few seconds while he 'd held her , she 'd had to admit this growing physical attraction she felt for him . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't care about the baby , ’ Philip said , and with those few words he doomed his unborn son . |
| 10 | And in those few moments he looked so much like his father , Major John Lewis , the man who had first taken her virginity , and later betrayed her husband . |
| 11 | I just looked at her very quickly — I was so nervous — and in those few seconds she was gone . |
| 12 | For a few seconds the lights at the Villa Fiesole failed entirely , and in those few seconds there was the sound of the back door being opened and footsteps in the passage . |
| 13 | But in those few weeks of her being pregnant , it immediately became our child . |
| 14 | For in those few moments I had seen another world of eternity and the meeting was relegated to the category of the fleeting . |