Example sentences of "their [noun] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were tipped as a recovery stock after investors had lost much of their money in a few months . |
| 2 | They talked about their plans for a few minutes . |
| 3 | After they 've scalded my ears with their abuse for a few weeks , and paraded my wreckage before the assembled ranks as an edifying example of what not to do and how not to do it , they will probably just turn me into a stone gargoyle on the roof of some Gothic cathedral . |
| 4 | The theory of the second-best says that it is allocatively more efficient to spread inevitable distortions thinly over many markets than to concentrate their effects in a few markets . |
| 5 | ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ was then sometimes obliged to bring them to their senses with a few slaps about the face . |
| 6 | They had little hope of bringing up fresh provisions in these conditions , and if they lengthened their lines by a few more miles they would have no hope at all . |
| 7 | Bone accumulations such as these are usually self-evident , and while they indicate which animals were present in an area , their limitation to a few species restricts their usefulness for ecological interpretation . |
| 8 | If employees leave their organisations within a few months of relocation , the heavy financial investment in them will be wasted . |
| 9 | Firms can choose to concentrate their resources in a few countries and emphasise exports to other markets , or they can disperse their resources and emphasise FDI . |
| 10 | Ranteallo explained that a stone had been raised at the death of every Toraja king , and indeed queen — though no one remembered their names beyond a few generations . |
| 11 | For example , of all the spare-time activities reported by affluent workers and their wives in the few days before being interviewed 62 per cent were in or about the home itself . |
| 12 | The Happy Mondays may have been all too willing to sell their souls for a few column inches , but watching Shaun gaze at the floor ‘ uhming ’ and ‘ aahing ’ , struggling to get his brain into gear , I feel like a voyeur . |
| 13 | In particular new potatoes should be bought in small amounts as they lose their freshness within a few days ; they should have a skin which feels damp to the touch and is easily removed by rubbing . |
| 14 | But they admit that these babies had not achieved complete and independent toileting as they could only hold on to their eliminations for a few minutes and needed help to undress and get on the potty . |
| 15 | Having filled their buckets with bright red liquid ( thanks for the colouring ) contestants in Blind-man 's buff had to rely on shouts from supporters to get back to their corner with a few drops left in the buckets — no thanks to members of the Summer Fayre committee who kept moving the obstacles — just in case it good too easy you understand ! |
| 16 | Kenya , one of its main strongholds , could still boast of a 20,000 strong population at the end of the 1960s , but over the next decade , poaching on an unprecedented scale — mainly by Somali bandits armed with AK 47s — had reduced their numbers to a few hundred . |
| 17 | In his mind 's eye he relived their love-making of a few hours before and the picture of Michael lying underneath him as he penetrated him rose in his mind . |
| 18 | Well-dressed older men now pay the higher fare to travel through Beijing by minibus , avoiding the slow , jammed and steamy buses on which the youngest and strongest men fight their way to a few rickety seats . |
| 19 | In the event , the most important repercussion of the appointment was to deprive Kent of the championship , for it proved such a traumatic time for Cowdrey that his team lost their way for a few weeks , and missed the title by just one agonizing point . |
| 20 | With full-back Ian Hunter not appearing Cumbria were in doubt about their line-up until a few minutes before kick-off , but showed no signs of uncertainty when the action began , winning a penalty from their first attack . |
| 21 | Many Creole users , both black and white , evoke a " black stereotype " by sprinkling their speech with a few Creolisms , but these are nearly always lexical — tags like man , guy , star , spar , y'know , or cho , or swear words like raas , turaatid , bomboklaat . |
| 22 | Peter Hall and Trevor Nunn made their reputations within a few years of leaving Cambridge . |
| 23 | These plants can exceed the size of some national markets , leading producers to concentrate their production on a few sites and export to small markets : some chemical plants in Brazil or Mexico serve other parts of the Latin American market . |