Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few occasions [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few occasions that United Biscuits ever took a hasty decision was when it bought a company in Spain at a time when it felt under pressure to expand into Europe . |
| 2 | Recording a verdict of accidental death on Johnathan and his father , Cheshire 's deputy coroner , John Pollard , said : ‘ This is one of the few occasions when we can genuinely describe something as a tragedy . |
| 3 | Recording a verdict of accidental death on Johnathan and his father , Cheshire 's deputy coroner , John Pollard , said : ‘ This is one of the few occasions when we can genuinely describe something as a tragedy . |
| 4 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 5 | On the few occasions that Tamar had come down to the farm , or visited her mother and Elizabeth in the market , she had chosen Goody to drive her . |
| 6 | I talked utter rubbish for hours , and on the few occasions that I faltered Lorne would break in and take over until I had recovered my strength . |
| 7 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 8 | or if on the few occasions that someone gets married , they hold a night . |
| 9 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 10 | The case where the complainant had seen the assailant only once or on a few occasions before might well be treated as that of identification rather than recognition . |