Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , since the APB wants to ensure that the debate which it intends the paper to stimulate does not get confined to the Big Six and a few others , it is to go on a whistlestop tour of the country over the next three months , holding discussion meetings with interested parties . |
| 2 | The Club and Institute Union was officially formed in London on June 14 , 1862 and a few months later Henry Solly resigned his pulpit at the English Presbyterian Church in Lancaster to become the first fulltime paid secretary of the Union . |
| 3 | ‘ I and a few others got into Kuwait in the morning and we were finishing our day 's work at about 5pm . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For the former , since they play against only one or a few opponents , there is no need for learning ; the genetically-determined strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ can be stable . |
| 6 | The human brain , and the body that it controls , can not do more than one or a few things at once . |
| 7 | Simple renal cysts were defined as one or a few cysts of 0.2 cm in diameter or more that did not result from adult polycystic disease , medullary cystic disease , or pyelogenic cysts . |
| 8 | Systematic risk is associated with movements in the market as a whole , while unsystematic risk is due to events which affect only one or a few assets , not the entire market . |
| 9 | In his famous concluding paragraph of The Origin of Species Darwin expressed wonder that the diversity of the organic world can have been produced from one or a few ancestors by the operation of several natural laws — ‘ there is grandeur in this view of life … ’ . |
| 10 | The farms themselves may be categorised into three broad types on the basis of their layout : one or a few buildings seemingly in isolation or associated with earlier structures , for instance late prehistoric enclosures or , as at Lower Warbank ( Kent ) , a single sunken building adjacent to a Roman villa ( Philp 1973 , pp. 156–63 ) , which may only be part of larger settlements ; individual farmsteads , a group of buildings associated with a fenced enclosure or paddock , such as Cowdery 's Down ( Millett 1983 ) ; thirdly , larger settlements with either multiples of the previous category or a farmstead apparently with a larger number of ancillary buildings , such as Chalton , Hampshire and West Stow , Suffolk ( West 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Erm and while I was married I bought it back for twenty and a few months later I sell it for ten pound . |
| 12 | The various provinces of Russia were too many and too mixed to allow of any division into two or a few camps , irrespective of whether socio-economic conditions , nationality , religion , or politics are concerned . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Outside these limits , Birmingham is exceptional in having a population of about 1 million and a few districts have populations below 200,000 . |
| 15 | The Germans killed six million and a few years later we invited them to be our guests over here ? |