Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 2 | As a deep rumbling and a few wisps of smoke were produced by the yacht , he turned back to the Doctor . |
| 3 | Few strategies of resistance were unknown . |
| 4 | My few meetings with Basil were all at Woolley Hall . |
| 5 | Within a few minutes of galactosides being added to the medium , the genes are switched on , and enzymes appear . |
| 6 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 7 | The Cambridge Board also had its own resident tutor in the county even thus few opportunities for development were missed in the county even though thy LEAs support was limited to specific grant-aid for classes and courses provided by the district and the Cambridge Board . |
| 8 | However , prospective applicants should note that a few combinations of languages are not possible because of the teaching timetable . |
| 9 | A few fragments of carrot were still lying about near the spring , but he had left these untouched and was eating the grass not far from the gnarled crabapple tree . |
| 10 | The argument is that school-leavers are mainly only temporarily unemployed and in the first few months of work are likely to switch jobs as they search for the ones that suit them best . |
| 11 | A key development in the first few months of life is ‘ joint reference ’ : the ability of a young baby to follow mother 's eye-gaze in order that they can jointly experience the same event . |
| 12 | Resistance to specific infectious diseases can be acquired in several ways ( p. 82 ) , and , of course , infants during the first few months of life are relatively unsusceptible to many infections because of transplacentally derived immunity . |
| 13 | For the young male mink , the first few months of life are his hardest test . |
| 14 | A few months in gaol is the very least you deserve for what you 've done . ’ |
| 15 | Using the first few feet of Scylla is Puppet ( E1 5b , 5b ) before it takes a delicate traverse out right to climb an obvious groove . |
| 16 | While this strategy may be appropriate for a ‘ mission area ’ where only a few pockets of Christians are to be found and they have to decide between going to one place at the expense of another , it must be applied rather differently in a situation where the Church has extensive geographical coverage . |
| 17 | I had long found that keeping my own little area and few belongings in order was a vital way of keeping a hold of myself , keeping my mind and spirits in order . |
| 18 | Few sighs of relief were heard , especially as the Swedes , plagued once more by submarines prowling round their defences , said they would sink intruders . |
| 19 | ‘ His former students will within a few years of graduation be earning a salary twice that of his , ’ the report says . |
| 20 | ‘ Citation frequency within a few years of publication is a reliable indicator of a paper 's lifetime citation expectancy . ’ |
| 21 | When his few days at Culbone were over , Coleridge descended again into the prosaic lowland world , and by 14 October was home at Lime Street , gloomy and impoverished . |
| 22 | The first few days in Bavant were fairly quiet as far as the enemy activity was concerned , with a few mortar bombs coming over from time to time . |
| 23 | The next few days in Manhattan were wonderful — the theatres , the gardens , the music , the restaurants , the night life , the beautiful girls . |
| 24 | The next few days in Manhattan were wonderful . |
| 25 | Here too there are trees in profusion , and although habitations are sparse , there is no feeling of loneliness ; indeed , when the few buildings of Drumbeg are reached , there is hospitality on offer . |
| 26 | Indeed , until the ecumenical era of the 1960s , few catholics in Ireland were prepared to put before themselves some of the political religious issues which would have to be resolved if a united Ireland or accommodation to a separate political entity in Ulster were to become a possibility . |
| 27 | A few figures in battle-dress were walking round the perimeter . |
| 28 | A few drops of rain were falling from the overheated sky . |
| 29 | It is not clear why : a pH change would affect other creatures and a few bales of straw are unlikely to affect the natural buffering action of the large amount of silt and decaying plant material already present . |
| 30 | The trouble is , very few differences of meaning are genuinely of the [ +/; — x ] kind . |