Example sentences of "[det] few [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method I prefer , however , is just to make a play of looking at the coin after each few rubs on the elbow . |
| 2 | She and her parents , Les and Fran , will have to spend another few months in the US as the youngster receives more treatment . |
| 3 | Down came another few panes in the glasshouse . |
| 4 | Too thinly spread to have much impact on the structure of wealth , so many were subsidiary to farming that , far from being divided into industrial and agrarian regions , England consisted of various farming regions of which certain pastoral ones had attained some degree of industrial development , in some few cases to the extent of substantially modifyng their fundamental characteristics . |
| 5 | Surprising , but almost certainly true ; those few moments at the end of a chaotic evening had never called for names . |
| 6 | She 'd only had those few hours at The Haven . |
| 7 | She could swear , that in those few seconds before the interruption , Fen had been as aware of her as she of him . |
| 8 | As well as the series of long-distance trains which still run through Birmingham , the sub-sector now includes those few trains from the North West to Dover which run through Kensington Olympia in London , and the service between Manchester and Scotland via Preston and the West Coast main line . |
| 9 | I know it 's him , this man — what was his name ? — Luke Denner , that 's got you so worked up ; you 've not been the same since those few days in the country and that plan of his has been sitting on your desk untouched for days on end . |
| 10 | It is in just those few cells in the inner cell mass that we have our origins . |
| 11 | There was also the presence of land-girls on neighbouring farms to remind Wendy of her own few months in the Women 's Land Army at St Andrews , where many Polish troops were stationed . |