Example sentences of "that [not/n't] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | One imagines that not a few may actually have seized the opportunity to indulge in a quiet sleep in preparation for the evening stint , for the dinner was formal and the occasion for full ceremonial . |
| 2 | Before the train stops every door is opened and all try to get out at once , with the result that not a few alight on their faces . |
| 3 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |
| 4 | She looked exquisite , breakable , so desirable that not a few lustier members of the congregation , whose minds should have been on holier things , found themselves in a sudden , quite ferocious state somewhere between arousal and bewitchment , which could bring any man to his knees . |
| 5 | And it 's a fair bet that not a few of them will rouse hoots of laughter or gasps of admiration when you show them off to you friends . |
| 6 | It was an opinion that not a few of Gould 's associates would have shared . |