Example sentences of "few [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I dare say , but I 'd far rather be playing snooker with a few of the boys , accompanied by a few pints of beer — preferably Devil 's Dram . |
| 2 | like most of the the child care was done by the girls , but there was actually a few of the boys that decided they wanted to work in the nurseries and o eh the five that done , there 's actually two that we know of a are actually doing child care as a career . |
| 3 | They had given the boy the surname Ward , not because it was his name — few of the boys emerging from the Clay possessed even the concept of a family name — but because all those who graduated from the Project bore that name . |
| 4 | You 've now all seen a project quality plan , but I 'd just like to go through a few of the headings just to advise you where I think the benefits lie . |
| 5 | Well , it crossed my mind that actually a few of the headings here are actually duplicated by the Video Work in Progress meeting , so whether we want to cover them again in this meeting I do n't know , because we had a meeting yesterday which covered some of these things and their minutes are then available . |
| 6 | And that 's only a few of the things that 'll be making their Megatape debuts on the front cover of COMMODORE FORCE ! |
| 7 | These are just a few of the things that can be done with a relatively crude form of recording of four basic parameters on a time base . |
| 8 | Well Sandy , we 've only looked at a few of the things in your shed and a very few of your photographs but it 's been fascinating . |
| 9 | This brochure outlines the broad principles governing awards of compensation , relates the basic steps we will take and suggests a few of the things you can do to help us present your case . |
| 10 | Even if a few of the resistors are never used , this still represents a very cheap and easy way to buy resistors . |
| 11 | Increasing costs from distributors , supplements on film transport costs and an increase in the rates are just a few of the factors which make this necessary . |
| 12 | The examples given of settlements in Canada , Australia and New Zealand demonstrate the influence of a few of the colonisers who went out from Ayrshire and give an indication of the varied circumstances and locations in which the emigrants started their new lives . |
| 13 | Obviously there had been no notices after the first night , and few of the critics of the major papers would have had time , let alone interest , to give the play a second viewing ; but a North London local paper with a weekly deadline had sent along its critic on the Monday of the second week , and their review appeared on the Thursday . |
| 14 | If you think the ‘ feeder is emptying too fast it is a simple matter to block up a few of the holes with a piece of sticky tape . |
| 15 | An occasion marked by a speech from the president himself , Peter Mead of Abbot Mead Vickers , which was noticeably defensive although a few of the jokes might have been considered mildly offensive by one or two sections of society ( indicating that the IPA , like kindred bodies , is still predominantly white , male and middle-class ) . |
| 16 | A few of the divisions were in the battalion phase of training and marksmanship had shown a level of attainment second only to the United States . |
| 17 | Those are just a few of the questions answered in the second part of our series about trees on the farm . |
| 18 | These are a few of the questions debated by thoughtful voters at supermarket check-out points , in dentists ' waiting rooms and factory canteens , on nature trails , in the linoleum-infested parlours of spirit mediums and in the halls of the mighty . |
| 19 | One way of ensuring that locals have a reasonable chance of winning is to slightly bias just a few of the questions . |
| 20 | A few of the questions yielded low or fairly low success rates even for the top third of pupils . |
| 21 | Under the Tories part-time and temporary working all too often , not all too often , always , ha means low pay , poorer working conditions and few of the benefits enjoyed by full-time workers . |
| 22 | ‘ Young workers have to take most of the risks and face the unrestricted and poor employment protection of adult workers , but get few of the benefits as most have no recourse to social protection when employment or training places are not available to them , ’ the report says . |
| 23 | ‘ Young workers have to take most of the risks and face the unrestricted and poor employment protection of adult workers , but get few of the benefits ’ |
| 24 | A few of the women , coming back from the shore , were drawn in by Mairi 's screaming . |
| 25 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 26 | Only a few of the surveys of homeless mentally ill people have inquired about any history of psychiatric treatment . |
| 27 | So much for a few of the perils — what are the pleasures ? |
| 28 | Few of the writers of the letters stuck to the point . |
| 29 | That war was justified where self-defence demanded violent measures few of the fathers had denied ; but the consistent effort of responsible churchmen down to the tenth century was to curb the warlike proclivities of the military classes , and , as time passed , to threaten ever direr penalties on those engaged in unholy war . |
| 30 | If the stock in these categories is to be revised and replenished often enough at each service point to keep its readers supplied with fresh material , then buying of new titles will be at an extremely wasteful level — since few of the titles withdrawn would be out-of-date or physically obsolete at the time of their withdrawal . |