Example sentences of "in a few [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only in a few instances were brass or copper depositum plates provided , for it was more usual to outline the initials , date of death and age of the occupant on to the lid with black-headed upholstery nails with the possible addition of a skull and crossbones outlined at the head of the lid , whilst the sides were decorated with a single row of close-set nails all round . |
| 2 | What permitted the concentration of foreign trade in a few ports was the complementing of overseas trade by coastal trade . |
| 3 | Only in a few cases is it unclear whether a crater is volcanic or from an impact , and in comparably few cases does it seem more likely that a crater is of volcanic origin . |
| 4 | Conversely , whilst there may in a few cases be valid reasons for a high quality paper not being submitted to such journals , it could be argued that in some cases publication outside the core represents a negative value judgement on the quality of that research . |
| 5 | Conversely , whilst there may in a few cases be valid reasons for a high quality paper not being submitted to such journals , it could be argued that in some cases publication outside the core represents a negative value judgement on the quality of that research . |
| 6 | Cases of equal numbers of additions to each area and all additions concentrated in a few areas are depicted schematically in Fig. 7.9 . |
| 7 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 8 | The ready availability of a screening questionnaire that mothers at risk can complete under supervision in a few minutes is potentially useful , but only if health workers and others can rise to the needs of depressed mothers . |
| 9 | Anything struck by a poisoned arrow was paralysed almost immediately and in a few moments was dead . |
| 10 | Perhaps cuckoos have only in recent centuries started parasitizing their present hosts , and will in a few centuries be forced to give them up and victimize other species . |
| 11 | These figures suggest that employers , at least with the present education system , largely feel that basic knowledge in a few subjects is all that they find useful for their purpose . |
| 12 | The evidence for arguing that newspaper — and media — ownership is concentrated in a few hands is fairly abundant ( see Table 4.2 ) but this does not , of itself , provide material for analysing the extent to which ‘ this potential for control is actually realized in practice , how exactly it operates and in whose ultimate interest ( it is ) … ’ . |
| 13 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 14 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |