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 | ‘ Quite a few players have got to be worried and I include myself among them . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Only a few authorities have been treated in this fashion and they are the councils which have substantially exceeded government targets for local expenditure . |
| 7 | Indeed , a few authorities have retreated from corporate structures-management teams have been disbanded and some chief executives dismissed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It has been noticed that a few teachers have still to pay their Society membership for 1981 … |
| 13 | A few teachers have still not paid their fees for 1981 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Deceptively , because in practice it is rarely accomplished and only in a few cases have polymer blends or mixtures achieved industrial importance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A few farmers have adhered to or returned to more traditional methods of farming . |
| 20 | This is not an area where policies and procedures can be formulated after a few incidents have been experienced . |
| 21 | A few counties have also produced local plans either to cover minerals and/or waste — their own responsibility — or particular topics such as green belt or coastal policy which are likely to cover more than one district area . |
| 22 | Only a few demos have a specific product in mind — most are just like these … |
| 23 | Not only that , but a few pairs have stayed on to breed , and in certain areas half a dozen or more broods of young can be seen on the new grassland . |
| 24 | Although des Forges and Harber gave only about 15 winter ( November to February ) records until 1960 , a few birds have wintered regularly since 1964 around Pagham Harbour ; what are probably the same individuals have also been seen quite often around Chichester Harbour . |
| 25 | Only a few studies have included segregation analysis of family data on chronic inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 26 | A few suppliers have become very large indeed . |
| 27 | Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns . |
| 28 | A few stars have been known to undergo more than one major outburst ; the ‘ Blaze Star ’ , T Coronæ in the Northern Crown , is usually of about the tenth magnitude , but flared up to naked-eye visibility in 1866 and again in 1946 . |
| 29 | A few freaks have been discovered from time to time , one amazing animal tipping the scales at no less than 43 lbs and a dwarf specimen at as little as 3 lbs , but these were abnormal . |
| 30 | A few luxuries have been smuggled in by canoe from the Solomons , which Bougainville is geographically and culturally close to . |