Example sentences of "few [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a recent case , the police posed as ordinary civilians in order to trap a shop owner , licensed to sell liquor by the case only , into selling them a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine . |
| 2 | We were more used to being given a few cans of lager and that was it , ’ says Solowka . |
| 3 | I hoped that the off-licence opened soon because the journey to Dover could only be improved by getting drunk ; besides , a few cans of lager helped me through the morning pretty well , and killed off hunger till late afternoon . |
| 4 | He ( or she ) wo n't find a dead body in the foreshore , but he might well return home with a few cans of paint , a drum of oil , a host of seaborne lost offerings , or even a net of Spanish oranges tucked under his arm . |
| 5 | Quite a few cans of Coke and things like that , quite a few cans for relieving yourself ! |
| 6 | There are a few glimmers of hope , however , since fewer firms are having trouble collecting fees and all but the larger firms are optimistic about increasing their client base . |
| 7 | LONDON & SOUTH-EAST : There were few glimmers of encouragement for Mr Kinnock as the party picked up a dozen seats in the capital and a handful outside , writes David Millward . |
| 8 | Seen from a hill , the dunes stretched as far as the deep blue of the horizon , above which were a few streaks of cirrus cloud . |
| 9 | The passageway here splits into two , one branch leading to the engine sump where a cage lies jammed for ever , the other leading to where a small spiral stairway runs up from a hole in the wall , over the tunnel , to the engine room which , apart from a few acts of vandalism and the ravages of time , is very much as it was on the day it was left . |
| 10 | ‘ There are ’ , he said , ‘ very few discussions of Government decisions by full Cabinet . ’ |
| 11 | In a country where the media is state controlled and acts as a mouthpiece for the Party , putting up posters was one of the few forms of communication and free expression . |
| 12 | Community theatre was one of the few forms of communication which managed to flourish under President Stroessner 's dictatorship in Paraguay . |
| 13 | Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ? |
| 14 | It can not be very comfortable , for it consists merely of an uneven depression on top of the stone wall , barely softened by dust and a few wisps of hay . |
| 15 | In the case of Santiaguito , there is little evidence that the dome is actually growing at all — one can sit and watch it for hours without seeing anything more than a few wisps of steam from the top — and it 's quite safe to scramble all over it . |
| 16 | As a deep rumbling and a few wisps of smoke were produced by the yacht , he turned back to the Doctor . |
| 17 | I saw then , through the one eye that would open , that my fire was scattered , that only a few wisps of smoke rose here and there . |
| 18 | Her body lay open before him , her only covering a few wisps of silk . |
| 19 | I have a few copies of quality magazines ; the girls are just gorgeous . |
| 20 | Few strategies of resistance were unknown . |
| 21 | A few scraps of wood , a pair of pants stained with blood that 's the same group as Ephraim 's . |
| 22 | ‘ Swainmotes ’ were held at Weybridge in Huntingdon Forest at Midsummer , Michaelmas and Martinmas in the middle of the fifteenth century , but only a few presentments of venison trespasses by husbandmen were presented by the foresters before the verderers between 1451 and 1455 . |
| 23 | The moment of asking was one of their few times of agreement and understanding . |
| 24 | As chance would have it , there was a couple living just down the road from us who kept animals — anything from horses to chinchillas , including a few birds of prey . |
| 25 | In fact , remarkably few birds of prey survive their first winter in the wild , but once they have done so life seems to be a bit easier for them . |
| 26 | Finally and by far the most important is : ( 3 ) To introduce into this familiar setting a few notes of caution . |
| 27 | This brought out a few gasps of admiration from the onlookers . |
| 28 | Injuries in war and disasters provide numerous anecdotes of the anaesthetic effects of shock ; a doctor in the aftermath of London 's Clapham rail crash of 1988 reported having treated several victims lying or sitting by the track in a state of bewilderment and oblivious of serious wounds ; in one case an ankle was completely severed other than for a few shreds of flesh . |
| 29 | The birds squawked and flapped , and the very top of the bush seemed to be flicked by an invisible hand which knocked a few shreds of leaf out into the air . |
| 30 | But after watching Brazil for a total of three hours , few gems of individualism stayed in the memory . |