Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [verb] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few shops selling furniture and electrical goods did not offer credit at all , and the more recent credit developments such as budget accounts seemed rare . |
| 2 | Elsewhere in Britain , few companies make hardware that directly serves the semiconductor and electronics industry , for instance for testing or production . |
| 3 | A few insects have tracheae that swell into thin-walled balloons which are depressed and expanded as the abdomen pumps up and down . |
| 4 | few libraries have guidelines or provide training programmes . |
| 5 | erm I saw in the newspaper , as I am sure you probably did , last week that the government has just devoted , I think , nine million pounds over the next few years to develop curricula and methods of training teachers in schools , and I think it 's tremendously important that that does n't become merely a bit more science of one form or another . |
| 6 | Among orange mounds of dust and evil black pools the sawyers squatted , self-reliant Lowlanders who perched here like colonists and were tolerated because the sub-tenants and cottagers on the poorest land could get a few days felling trees when they were desperate . |
| 7 | I 've got lots of videos and I 'll be doing a crash course over the next few weeks to assess strengths and weaknesses . ’ |
| 8 | As a result , publishers have few costs to charge writers and composers against their publishing royalties . |
| 9 | Likewise , John Newcombe would visualise the sequence from the dressing-room on to the court and the first few games to stem nervousness and condition his reactions in advance . |
| 10 | ‘ I know a lot of people from non-League who are going , and there are a few buses taking friends and relations , ’ he said . |
| 11 | WHY , in the age of the microchip , does it take a few seconds to phone Australia but four full working days for a cheque to clear ? |
| 12 | It takes just a few seconds to alter CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to make these changes . |
| 13 | Few men dared whistle or swear in the workings , for the little people would not tolerate that and indeed the men were expected to behave themselves sensibly . |
| 14 | Not a few men lost teeth because they had met the big man at the wrong moment . |
| 15 | It may be easy to argue that there are too few women doing physics and too many doing English ; reversing these trends , however , is an enormously difficult task , as the GIST team found out ( see Whyte 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Indeed , a few women embraced domesticity and the family and tried to become more involved in , for example , their extended family . |
| 17 | Moreover , few schemes covered women or children . |
| 18 | In all of Ayrshire at that time , there were very few hotels offering accommodation and every hotel bed available in Central Ayrshire was booked , some to be shared by several people . |