Example sentences of "these few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost worth all that agony to have these few moments of companionship . |
| 2 | Scientific interests have been chosen for these few pages of examples because of the tendency in some quarters to assume that resource-based learning is a Humanities or Social Studies prerogative . |
| 3 | The Old Testament may give these few hints of a Creator Spirit , and certainly this thought is found in the intertestamental period — where the parallelism between Wisdom , Word and Spirit is important — but the paucity of instances that can be adduced , and the plausibility of taking them in another sense , does make one very cautious of building up a great doctrine of co-operating with the Holy Spirit in his on-going work of creation . |
| 4 | Sample these few lines from ‘ Destroy Protect And Survive ’ : ‘ We train young men to drop fire from above/Yet their commanding officers wo n't let them write ‘ f— ’ on the side of their aircraft/Because it 's obscene . ’ |
| 5 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |
| 6 | She passionately wrote these few words to him : |
| 7 | These few words of Bishop Samson make the whole affair a matter of business-like common sense , more in keeping with the way in which government was developing than with Anselm 's grand and simple principles . |
| 8 | You must then use these few seconds of relief from your negative thoughts to employ a more long term means of distraction to prevent the thoughts returning . |