Example sentences of "a few of [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus studies which , for example , have involved showing subjects a series of slides with just a few of them being arousing , e.g. autopsy slides ( Kramer , Buckhout , Fox , Widman & Tusche , 1991 ) or disfigured faces ( Christianson & Nilsson , 1984 ) , have shown impairments in memory for paired associates to the arousing stimulus or anterograde amnesia for subsequent slides . |
| 2 | Afterwards some of the people concerned , their family doctor , the solicitor , a few of her mother 's friends , came back and there was a curious tea party with sandwiches and home-made fruitcake . |
| 3 | To buy back a few of her father 's paintings she would be glad to sell the house and move into a rented flat . |
| 4 | We asked the Tony & Guy team to share a few of their style secrets with us . |
| 5 | Privately , some in Hollywood admit that a few of their number — Mr Thomason and his wife among them — are asking for it . |
| 6 | He raised a point , which had never occurred to me , like not a few of his aperçus , that , in the case of radio broadcasts , it was a mistake invariably to employ German refugees or perfect German speakers to warn the German public of the evils of Nazism . |
| 7 | Quite a few of his country clients had been late for their appointments , or had failed to turn up at all , and the story was always the same : British troops had boarded the train as passengers so the driver or the fireman or the guard or ticket-collector — sometimes all four — refused to work and the train never moved . |
| 8 | ‘ We have had a few of our delivery men have missed the time by just two or three minutes but as people get used to it things should improve , ’ said a spokesman . |