Example sentences of "the few [noun pl] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town . |
| 2 | I put away the few clothes I had brought , together with photos of Mother and Father , and another one — a head and shoulders portrait of Clare , looking happy and unconcerned about her legs . |
| 3 | It rarely took less than seven minutes to organize the few things I needed , so that day I rehearsed mentally as I went along : ‘ Choose the best place to stop . |
| 4 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |
| 5 | One night , after I had cooked her supper , I went upstairs and packed the few things I possessed in a cardboard box and came downstairs and announced I was leaving . |
| 6 | Er , one of the paradoxes of the modern era as er , pointed out by Tom Peters , not by me , one of the few things I do not claim original thought on , erm , is , is that it 's not that we , people think that we do n't have enough information at our fingertips and are constantly striving to gather more and more , the opposite is actually true . |
| 7 | One of the few skills I possess is the ability to type with ten fingers . |
| 8 | ‘ You managed to organize all this in the few minutes I was out there ? |
| 9 | And your cousin was one of the first one of the few women I ever knew , who could take shorthand in Welsh . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't say as much for the few farmers I 've met — always with the exception of Mr Jarvis , of course . |
| 11 | But , apart from Mr Jarvis , the few farmers I 've done work for have n't paid their bills yet . ’ |
| 12 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 13 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 14 | He knew I worked with Malcolm because he was one of the few teachers I could have a conversation with about something more than homework or football . |
| 15 | I am left to live out my life with only the few possessions I have managed to buy from my pension , because of Gary . |
| 16 | The few psychiatrists I respect always talk about people being mad . |
| 17 | Erm , so we are particularly pleased to have you here because we know as well that the G M B is in the forefront of erm establishing activity within Europe , one of , one of the few unions I think is that the only unions will have an office open in Brussels . |
| 18 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 19 | On the few occasions I have met him it has been very difficult for me not to let slip something about you . |
| 20 | On the few occasions I did get some time off to go somewhere , there would be photographers everywhere , besieging me at the airport as if I was some international film star going to Hollywood . |
| 21 | One of the few occasions I ever saw him and the only one in which we sat face to face . |
| 22 | I I did enjoy going to the city centre , but so far er in the few months I 've been in , I 've enjoyed it tremendously yes . |
| 23 | Darts is one of the few sports I 've got the right build for . |
| 24 | I could tell you many tales of great joy and hope , but I could also give you far worse than the few examples I have mentioned here . |
| 25 | I turned it over , glanced at the Hungarian stamp , and read the few words I had scribbled to Stephanie , only three weeks earlier . |
| 26 | And Keith is one of the few Englishmen I know who really likes Spencer , the rest dismiss him as representative of an imperial , conservative , rural English idyll . |
| 27 | I say ‘ the wife ’ with impunity as Doreen is one of the few wives I know who actually calls herself that . |
| 28 | That is a fact , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , one of the few facts I can swear to , though I find it impossible to explain . |
| 29 | I sat around picking over the few facts I knew . |
| 30 | ‘ He is one of the few teetotallers I know who can be entertaining after dinner . ’ |