Example sentences of "few [noun pl] in [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | Suburban residential development in Chiswick had already become noticeable by the end of the nineteenth century with Back Common load and the adjoining Bond Street , Holly Road , Clifton Gardens , Belmont Road and Grove on the north side of Chiswick high Road , and with Devonshire Road , Linden Gardens and Bolton Gardens — later renamed Duke Road-on the south side , and a few houses in Dukes Avenue , opposite to the end of Barrowgate Road , which itself had a number of houses , mostly at the Sutton Lane end , close to Dead Donkey Lane . |
2 | No wonder Dolly Parton has few fans in Ulan Bator ! |
3 | Seems there are quite a few singers in New York already . ’ |
4 | Ellis Cashmore finds few surprises in Studs Terkel 's epic survey of US attitudes to race |
5 | I 'll bet that 's made for a few tensions in Schreider Sterne Inc. ! ’ |
6 | On the whole , those first few years in North Cornwall were very happy times for me . |
7 | Recently Mrs Thatcher , working on her memoirs , was trying to reconstruct her first few days in Downing Street in 1979 . |
8 | ‘ Few farmers in Northern Ireland have even seen this disease and do n't appreciate the devastation it could cause in the dairy herd , with pneumonia , abortion and subsequent infertility and mastitis . |
9 | The English had not taken any important part in this ; voyages from Bristol at the end of the fifteenth century had reached a few points in North America and had opened up cod fisheries off Newfoundland , and in the 1550s London merchants had used the northern searoutes to start trading with Russia , but most of the nation 's energies overseas in the first half of the sixteenth century had been devoted to the last and least rewarding of the attempts to conquer France . |
10 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
11 | They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise . |
12 | Machine-tools are one of the few industries in east Germany that come close to matching world standards , and Niles Werkzeugmaschinen , based in the district of Weissensee , was the core enterprise of the defunct 7 Oktober engineering combine . |