Example sentences of "on the few [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stereo sound , which can be dubbed separately , is available on the few machines which feature the alternative PCM system of audio recording . |
| 2 | He was 128th in driving accuracy , 180th in sand saves , 192nd , which is to say dead last , in sub-par holes ( percentage of eagles and birdies ) , 191st ( or second-to-last ) in scoring average , dead last in both putting on the few greens he hit in regulation and in total putts ( which means that when he missed a green , he seldom got it up and down ) , and dead last again in shooting birdies on par-3s , par-4s and par-5s . |
| 3 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 4 | In order to understand the press reporting of rape trials we need to concentrate on the few cases which got enormous publicity in 1985 . |
| 5 | The interest is simply focused on the few individuals who commit several serious atrocities . |
| 6 | Scholz was wearing that wise , reflective look that pipe-smokers get or act on the few occasions their pipes are working well . |
| 7 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 8 | There were dances in the Hut by the Strathmore Arms and when we grew up a bit and thought our fathers would n't find out we would nip into the Strathmore Arms for a pint , on the few occasions we could afford . |
| 9 | It was n't that the Captain had anything specific to ask him , but on the few occasions they had worked together the Marshal had always had something helpful to offer . |
| 10 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 11 | On the few occasions I have met him it has been very difficult for me not to let slip something about you . |
| 12 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 13 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 14 | There was little enough fun in her life ; she had no friends , she rarely left the house and on the few occasions she did , it was never on her own and her only contacts were with her mother , the tutors , some of the servants and Patrick . |
| 15 | On the few occasions she 'd spent holidays at home she 'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries . |