Example sentences of "a few [n mass] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have discovered those which for various reasons I did not feel comfortable with ; on the other hand , there have been a few works which I could as my personal luxury ! |
| 2 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 3 | A survey of the biota of the river between 1979 and 1981 revealed that the macroinvertebrate fauna had been adversely affected , involving loss of diversity and the proliferation of a few species which are tolerant of high levels of pollution . |
| 4 | He subdivided this very large genus into several ‘ sections ’ , each of which contained species which were similar to each other and probably closely related — though there are a few species which , in typical cichlid fashion , do n't seem to fit properly anywhere . |
| 5 | There would be a few drinks , some canapes and a few staff who were free and willing to do it on overtime . |
| 6 | ‘ I have spent a few quid myself , like breaking the British record for a defender when I spent £2.5 m on Keith Curle . ’ |
| 7 | He was n't allowed to work that day , so people turned up in a white shirt and tie and looking smart , they had to wear uniforms even a cap but unfortunately nowadays , although a lot of the I have seen quite a few people their uniform has changed since I left , but erm they do come to work in very very casual work now . |
| 8 | He consulted a few people whom he thought were good tests of opinion . |
| 9 | ‘ In the US , irresponsible politicians pretend to the electorate that by killing a few people you 're going to solve society 's crime problem and people believe them . ’ |
| 10 | So that eliminates a few people you see . |
| 11 | People came and surrounded her and Erica , and I drifted away from them and around , seeing a few people I knew by sight and hundreds I did n't . |
| 12 | I 'd start by shooting a few people I know and making them stop digging holes in the road . ’ |
| 13 | And there are a few people who wo n't be pleased whatever you do . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 15 | There are a few people who are out to cause you any aggravation , whom you have to treat that seriously . |
| 16 | There were a few people who ‘ took an interest ’ first in one young man and then another . |
| 17 | There are a few people who develop sores or cracked skin at the corner of the mouth and suffer from riboflavin or vitamin B2 deficiency . |
| 18 | However a few people who tested antibody negative have gone on to develop AIDS , and some scientists now believe that — extremely rarely — someone with HIV may never produce antibodies . |
| 19 | There are quite a few people who would say that you should n't feed a wild badger at all . |
| 20 | Free all that valuable time wasted on such bureaucratic chores to go and listen to a few people who have something important to say . |
| 21 | Not me personally but I have known a few people who 've wanted perhaps , a very quiet wedding , just in a registry office , and finished up with a large church wedding . |
| 22 | There were evidently quite a few people who , like Andreeva , had failed to appreciate the seriousness of the task that faced them in April 1985 and the uselessness of applying the command-administrative methods of the past . |
| 23 | There were a few people who allowed themselves to feel the pain of loss , the pain of betrayal , when they began to understand what had really been happening in the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | They were among a few people who came back to see over the property again quite a few times , and I met their sons . |
| 25 | I know quite a few people who would do that . |
| 26 | There were a few people who had private laboratories , and who were like Lavoisier amateurs of fully professional competence ; and there were those who lived by consultancy . |
| 27 | Here in Haiti there are still a few people who know how to use voodoo . |
| 28 | As it was only eleven thirty in the morning there were quite a few people who thought that it would be fun to go out and play in the floods and others who were just lending a hand to those in difficulty . |
| 29 | ’ I do n't nick stuff myself , but I know a few people who do . |
| 30 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |