Example sentences of "[prep] which [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay . |
| 2 | Copulation is repeated at intervals between which a few capsules are laid ( Fretter and Graham , 1962 ) . |
| 3 | He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life . |
| 4 | Sitting in his office , Mr Johnson offered us both cold beers from a pail of water in which a few pieces of ice floated . |
| 5 | We have begun again to structure the primordial feeling , the tribal emotions from which a few centuries of literacy divorced us. ( op. cit. : 63 . ) |