Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [det] few [noun] " 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 | And for those few women who parrot their words . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | From 1926 to 1930 she shared her ideas about colour with the painter Christopher Wood and for those few years their work looked similar . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ I do n't care about the baby , ’ Philip said , and with those few words he doomed his unborn son . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I just looked at her very quickly — I was so nervous — and in those few seconds she was gone . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
11 | But in those few weeks of her being pregnant , it immediately became our child . |