Example sentences of "if a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was possible for a man to achieve social promotion in the Church : if a few bishops were sons and brothers of kings or great lords , many more owed their position to talent and service , not to birth . |
| 3 | If a few Ukrainians suffered as individuals at the hands of the Nicholaevan regime , Jews , like Poles , suffered collectively . |
| 4 | Obviously , he liked to work amidst clutter , and it would n't bother him if a few pages were creased . |
| 5 | Large corporations in business make pitiful efforts to persuade men to attend lectures on retirement , as if a few hours of instruction could shield a man from the cold wind of eternity . |
| 6 | STEER clear of the Lake District if a few drops of rain sends you scurrying for cover — it has one of the highest rainfall levels in Britain . |
| 7 | For people from a closed world , I thought dimly , they 're well-informed — if a few years out of date . |
| 8 | If a few days later the salesman 's firm sends the customer a letter accepting the customer 's offer , the contract is made , not during the visit , but a few days later . |
| 9 | And if a few romantics mutter against the ‘ satanic mills ’ , despoliation of the countryside and pollution of the skies from the factory chimneys , the machine shunts them aside as surely as it repulses those Luddites who would shut down its engines if they only knew how . |
| 10 | Bands usually look better if a few needles at the edges are knitted in stocking stitch which will roll and give a neat firm edge . |
| 11 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |