Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a recent case , the police posed as ordinary civilians in order to trap a shop owner , licensed to sell liquor by the case only , into selling them a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine . |
| 2 | We were more used to being given a few cans of lager and that was it , ’ says Solowka . |
| 3 | Quite a few cans of Coke and things like that , quite a few cans for relieving yourself ! |
| 4 | Although he had passed Responsions and had few debts at Oxford except for books , his father was already apprehensive about the cost of an Oxford education , with Ernest in his final year of training to be an art-teacher and Reggie with a consuming passion for Shakespeare and the stage , and no other interest . |
| 5 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
| 6 | The passageway here splits into two , one branch leading to the engine sump where a cage lies jammed for ever , the other leading to where a small spiral stairway runs up from a hole in the wall , over the tunnel , to the engine room which , apart from a few acts of vandalism and the ravages of time , is very much as it was on the day it was left . |
| 7 | 13.3.2 Few authorities on fraud and partiality |
| 8 | In a country where the media is state controlled and acts as a mouthpiece for the Party , putting up posters was one of the few forms of communication and free expression . |
| 9 | There are , however , precious few parallels amongst athletes and footballers . |
| 10 | This seemed to be a place where , despite noises in the night and a few dangers like trees that grew inside you and made your throat choke , a person might feel sale for always . |
| 11 | The moment of asking was one of their few times of agreement and understanding . |
| 12 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
| 13 | The first few pairs of somites that form do not persist ; they disappear and are incorporated into the head . |
| 14 | Having completed his course , he found that there were few vacancies for horticulturists and he is once again on the dole . |
| 15 | If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day . |
| 16 | We have provided an access fund to the institutions to enable them to deal with the few cases of hardship that genuinely occur . |
| 17 | Myenteric plexuses often participate in familial amyloid polyneuropathy and in a few cases with AL and AA . |
| 18 | It took a few minutes for Curtis and Adrian to realise their baby had disappeared . |
| 19 | So on that very depressing note , er I 'll leave we 've got a few minutes for questions or objections if anyone wants to , we 've got some head shaking . |
| 20 | There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food . |
| 21 | The Blessed Sacrament Chapel is in a small room just inside the Presbytery door and to it come over a hundred people who give an hour of their time a week to ‘ watch ’ but there are countless others who come in just for a minute or two and there find a few minutes of silence and prayer . |
| 22 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |
| 23 | If you want to stop at seventy three point six million erm pounds we 're quite happy to erm and I suggest Chairman if if we do n't get the the main er growth savings through at the next few minutes of voting that perhaps a rather longer lunch erm maybe there would be some . |
| 24 | Hibs showed a few signs of life when Tweed and Weir threatened on the counter-attack . |
| 25 | He sees few signs of complacency but a greater appreciation of hazards and a commitment to taking the right precautions , which he considers are the surest way of accelerating progress towards a safer future . |
| 26 | He will probably show a few signs of wear and tear , but as long as your vet recommends purchase he could be a good buy . |
| 27 | There were a few sticks of furniture and the floor was beaten earth , rather cold despite the summer . |
| 28 | Now , Roger , I beg you , let us go back to our chamber , warm ourselves , snatch a few hours of sleep and tomorrow , as we break fast in the hall , I shall confront the murderer . ’ |
| 29 | ( 193 ) In Bonn , the few hours of talk and the banquets with West German leaders were made to produce , by all accounts , the information he needed . |
| 30 | Cannons are dangerous if sometimes unpredictable weapons whose manufacture is limited to a few groups of human and Dwarf experts . |