Example sentences of "few [prep] [noun] ['s] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to dilute Judi 's images of her sister with objectivity , with his own observations , with Cam 's tightly-guarded feelings , with the pathetic and stupid judgements of Clive , Amelia and a few of Amelia 's guests , and with the slight tastes of her he had sampled at the entrance to the maze . |
| 2 | He added that few of America 's allies would have supported military action in Indo-China , and he believed that since the United States could not run the free world by itself a reappraisal of its policies was necessary to retain allied support . |
| 3 | Few of Wagner 's admirers can have been satisfied . |
| 4 | It captures a desperation that few of Minton 's friends at this time , when he was successful and sought-after , were prepared to face . |
| 5 | If it occurs anywhere in Offa 's reign it does so as Of Rx A on a few of Offa 's coins by the London moneyer , Alhmund . |
| 6 | The birthday party was of a kind which Cecilia would have wondered at , had she been invited to it , for although a few of Bienvida 's classmates were present in its early stages , by seven it had become a celebration for the grown-ups . |
| 7 | We have had a few of Lionan 's men here once or twice , some wounded . |
| 8 | It was an opinion that not a few of Gould 's associates would have shared . |
| 9 | It is a land almost entirely owned and run by foreigners , though there must be few of Panama 's oligarchs — soldiers and landowners and bankers — who do not have an honorary passport or draw a regular remittance . |
| 10 | Few of Camille 's schoolmates , even had they been able to read and write , would go on to a career in the sciences , since the chemistry lab had been the first to succumb , years back , when the rules had just been relaxed and attitudes to education liberalized . |
| 11 | Few of Auguste 's pupils seemed inclined to mackerel for breakfast . |
| 12 | A few of Richard 's toys were there as well , and some that had belonged to Kate . |
| 13 | Few of Oxfordshire 's towns have escaped the violence . |
| 14 | There was a rubber ball , a few of Emily 's textbooks and a sort of forcefield of nails resting heads down and points upwards towards the unseen burglar 's face . |
| 15 | The McLaggans had put grass halters round the necks of a few of Menzies ' horses ; Cameron rode on one ; from the back in his dark coat he looked like a preacher leading away the faithful to a field communion . |
| 16 | A very few of Patterson 's spellings may indicate that /a/ backing and rounding had been observed sporadically in -r and -l environments : he has form for ‘ farm ’ and canaul for ‘ canal ’ . |
| 17 | FEW OF nature 's poisons can compete with man 's concoctions for persistent nastiness . |
| 18 | Many readers must have sighed with regret that so few of Gainsborough 's letters have survived , since the charm of his style is so fresh ; it is easy to sympathise with him writing about his professional commitment to portraiture , on behalf of two fine ladies , his daughters : |
| 19 | Few of Gallotta 's ideas are developed rigorously enough to see all their possibilities , and too many degenerate into rituals for marking time . |
| 20 | But then , those few of Elise 's men friends whom Merrill had met had all been charismatic in one way or another . |