Example sentences of "with more than a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 2 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 3 | Many of the fish are of specimen size , too , with more than a few record breakers . |
| 4 | Then a man with more than a few hairy £10 notes sticking out of his ears said , " We 'll build a factory there , and another one over his hill here . |
| 5 | Lousy beer , but a good jacket with more than a few memories of a young lady from Boulder , Colorado , attached to it . |
| 6 | Clients must be notified of major changes in the membership of a firm , though this rule does not compel a firm with more than a few partners to incur the expense of notifying all its clients every time a partner retires or joins , though there may , of course , be good commercial reasons for doing just that . |