Example sentences of "be [art] few [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute |
| 2 | But there have been a few problems in trying to explain to the Chinese the finer points of a fish supper . |
| 3 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 4 | It can be assumed then that by 1910 the age range ran from 14 to 43 for certain , and there will most likely have been a few women in their late forties or early fifties . |
| 5 | Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making . |
| 6 | But recently , including today 's CBI distributive trades survey , there have been a few straws in the wind suggesting things really might be getting a little better . |
| 7 | For , he was sure , no mistake , there had been a few flings in her life . |
| 8 | While there are a few things in digital technology which have no possible representation in analogue form — infinite impulse response filters are a good example — most digital blocks derive their shape from the original analogue function . |
| 9 | Oh she 's says It 's not coal , no , I do n't use it for coal , she sa I 've got gas central heating , we do n't need No it 's just that er well there are a few things in there . |
| 10 | Young Charles is one of several up and coming teenagers in the Halkyn team along with Gareth Jacobs and Gareth Thomas , while there are a few others in the second eleven hoping for a first team chance . |
| 11 | While there are a few changes in detail , most British school and college mathematics classrooms do not differ much from those of a hundred years ago . |
| 12 | It is unusual for the cost of extra fares to be given as a lump sum consolidated into salary , although there are a few firms in which this has been agreed . |
| 13 | There are a few planets in the evening sky , though . |
| 14 | Needless to say , there are a few surprises in these performances : the Academy 's playing is a polished as ever , Marriner 's conducting urbane and refined . |
| 15 | There are a few surprises in the music itself , no neglected giants waiting to be discovered ( not , at least , on the strength of the music recorded here ) . |
| 16 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 17 | There are a few thickenings in some of them , but these can hardly be described as brains . |
| 18 | The sale is creating a lot of interest with people who want a bargin , even though there are a few skeletons in the cupboard . |
| 19 | There are a few examples in other structures of pairs of carboxyl acids within hydrogen bond distance of each other but no other example of a cluster of four carboxyl groups as in R2 . |
| 20 | The language that most of the home computers are used with is BASIC , and although there are a few words in that language which look like English words , like ‘ If ’ and ‘ Let ’ and ‘ Go to ’ and perhaps some others depending on the dialect of BASIC that you have , these words do not work in the way that ordinary English speakers are used to . |
| 21 | To be sure , there are a few mistakes in this richly detailed background . |
| 22 | Additionally , there are a few lessons in positive thinking that will effectively change the way you look at yourself , as well as those around you . |
| 23 | Although financial director Michael Langley said that the product is approaching the end of its life , he believes ‘ there are a few years in it yet ’ , and expects 1993 sales levels to be maintained at roughly the same as 1992s . |
| 24 | But there are a few exceptions in the seed-eating species like finches and buntings . |
| 25 | There are a few places in the States , but there 's no federal policy to get them organised on a big-money basis and all the little local pressure groups keep them harassed and staying small . |
| 26 | Ethnic differences are so striking that they are described separately in Chapter 12 , although there are a few references in the text below . |
| 27 | There will always , however , be a few cases in which the clinician thinks that it is inappropriate to ask for organs . |
| 28 | I mean the view that astronomers and most scientists and people who are interested in astronomy had was that there might be a few molecules in space , probably not very many , but if there were they would be very , very simple , probably one or two atoms , perhaps things like water , perhaps things like ammonia , and things like methane — molecules with a large amount of hydrogen attached to them and in fact a thermodynamically staple species . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's going to be a lot of fun and there will be a few surprises in the interval , ’ he says . |
| 30 | The temperature will only rise a little this afternoon — we can expect around nine or ten degrees celsius , that 's about forty eight fahrenheit , but there will be a few spots in the east that will get a degree or two higher . |