Example sentences of "[conj] a few [noun] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | From more than a few feet it was impossible to tell even the sex of the figure . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There would be a few drinks , some canapes and a few staff who were free and willing to do it on overtime . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Whereas up until a few months they were thinking of closing the engineering department |
| 19 | I remember once , yeah it was like that , yeah that 's right , not one , but a few times I used to get on the train from Runcorn to Liverpool , I had an address to go to in Liverpool , rough directions how to get there , to pick up a suit or to pick up a fitting , you know you 'd get the , the different |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But a few comments which seem to be apposite erm , we do n't want to kill animals with cruelty do we not ? |
| 22 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 23 | Once in place there is very little movement and although two lenses are heavier than once , after a few runs you hardly notice the difference . |
| 24 | Our engineer friends had collected crusty rolls from the dining room and , after a few drinks themselves , had set out to experiment with the sea-gulls ' capacity for whiskey . |