Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many European countries worry that the countries of the former Soviet Union , from which only a few emigrants have escaped since the second world war , could revert to their 19th-century role as big exporters of people . |
| 2 | ARMED with microscopes , miniature drills and an infinite capacity for taking pains , a few palaeontologists have redrawn their profession 's picture of early life . |
| 3 | He then picked him up and in a few moments had taken Woil back to his cage , put him in , closed the iron gate and secured it . |
| 4 | The schoolteacher realized that his guests were tongue-tied in this strange place and , after a few openings had brought no more than murmurs of self-conscious or self-absorbed politeness , he did what he had found best to do on such occasions . |
| 5 | ‘ Quite a few players have got to be worried and I include myself among them . |
| 6 | I was disappointed that Yorkshire did n't want me , but quite a few players have made good careers for themselves after slipping through their net and I am determined to become another . ’ |
| 7 | A few commentators have seen signs of hope in the recent refusal at appeal of applications for large centres alongside the M1 near Leicester and at Cribbs Causeway outside Bristol . |
| 8 | Only a few authorities have been treated in this fashion and they are the councils which have substantially exceeded government targets for local expenditure . |
| 9 | Indeed , a few authorities have retreated from corporate structures-management teams have been disbanded and some chief executives dismissed . |
| 10 | However , as early as the sixteenth century , we know from the fame already achieved by the wines of Aÿ that a few winemakers had begun to experiment with wines made from white grape only . |
| 11 | AS THE deadline approached for this quarter 's issue of Wood News , there was a certain amount of nervousness at John Wood House , since only a few stories had come through from our new network of Correspondents . |
| 12 | Only a few firms have won manufacturing licences because , unless the tape is of very high quality , it will produce poor pictures and damage the machines in which it is used . |
| 13 | Er we just kept them on and there 's I know quite a few schemes have stopped working but we 've still got them written down somewhere |
| 14 | The water pours on until a few inches has collected in the bottom . |
| 15 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 16 | A few writers have seen the links which are possible between sociology and Freud 's theory , and have therefore managed a bridge between social psychology and sociology . |
| 17 | Here the queen was , according to local records , accommodated in a turreted tower house known since as Mary Queen of Scots House , though a few researchers have concluded that it could not have been built until many years after her stay in the burgh . |
| 18 | Most classrooms had at least one such area , usually a reading or library corner , and a few teachers had organized their rooms entirely in this way , forming as many as six or seven work areas . |
| 19 | It has been noticed that a few teachers have still to pay their Society membership for 1981 … |
| 20 | A few teachers have still not paid their fees for 1981 . |
| 21 | Many of the living echinoids are protected by spines , some sharp and breaking off easily into the unwary foot , others stout and clublike ; a few groups have taken to burrowing into sediment , and the spines have become small and felt-like . |
| 22 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 23 | A few cases have already been cited in which late classical jurists used the word ‘ precatory ’ as a shorthand for a trust disposition , drawing attention to the request made by the settlor . |
| 24 | A few cases have attracted public attention — such as that of Sheila Rossall , a pop singer , who was flown to America for treatment in the 1970s , before such problems could be treated in Britain . |
| 25 | Deceptively , because in practice it is rarely accomplished and only in a few cases have polymer blends or mixtures achieved industrial importance . |
| 26 | Although only a few cases have been studied , it seems probable that extensive infiltration and smooth muscle replacement by amyloid deposits occur in patients with AH amyloidosis , as shown in our case . |
| 27 | Harris has been known to cause a few directors to have sleepless nights . |
| 28 | A few farmers have adhered to or returned to more traditional methods of farming . |
| 29 | By what were to be the last years of the silent cinema quite a few critics had become aware of some sense of life in the feature film . |
| 30 | Is she regis she 's registered with quite a few agencies has n't she ? |