Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overnight passage to Aberdeen was wild and stormy and my brother Ian and I were amongst the few passengers on board capable of doing proper justice to the excellent dinner provided . |
| 2 | In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level . |
| 3 | They drew down to the back of the hummock which remained an ivy-grown tump until they were within a few paces and could see rough-hewn timber planks behind it . |
| 4 | They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch . |
| 5 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 6 | Inflation reached levels beyond the control of the authorities , and mines and bakeries were among the few concerns continuing to operate , as workers did not arrive to work or raw materials were lacking . |
| 7 | The three service chiefs were among the few officers unaffected . |
| 8 | Vivien Eliot was buried in a cemetery in Pinner , Middlesex ; her husband and her brother were among the few mourners . |
| 9 | They had blue-chip credit standing , and were among the few counterparties with plenty of fixed-rate interest payments to swap for floating-rate ones . |
| 10 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 11 | One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show . |
| 12 | For the next 2000 years the abstract/axiomatic approach was with a few exceptions replaced by a more concrete intuitive approach . |
| 13 | The most that was achieved was in a few examples of new highway construction ( in London the long-standing schemes of the Great West Road and the North Circular came to fruition ) ; and in the bigger cities , there were road-widening schemes , some stretches of dual carriageway and the occasional new project ( such as the Headrow in Leeds linked to redevelopment ) and some spectacular new projects ( such as the new suspension bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle and the Mersey Tunnel at Liverpool/Birkenhead ) . |
| 14 | COLIN Jackson was within a few inches of Olympic disaster last night in his bid for the 110 metres hurdles crown . |
| 15 | When she was within a few feet of the ground , the cat leapt from her and rubbed itself against its mistress 's legs . |
| 16 | The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM . |
| 17 | The second man ducked back around the corner and Maxim backed off crouching and aiming until he was within a few metres of the cross-street . |
| 18 | Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination . |
| 19 | We wat , did you see that film up , that was on a few nights ago , some time last week I think ? |