Example sentences of "while a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some pubs have their ‘ cellars ’ on the ground floor while a few pubs , often in rural areas , keep their casks on or behind the bar and serve the beer by gravity from a tap in the tap hole . |
| 2 | While a few policemen tried to the bitter end to avoid conversation with the field-worker , sufficient rapport was established over time for the majority to talk quite openly to her about what are highly sensitive and controversial topics in a Northern Ireland context . |
| 3 | Mum and dad are both noted stayers , while a few seasons ago his grandad , I 'm Slippy , roared to victory in the sport 's blue riband event , the Greyhound Derby . |
| 4 | Pigs may have spent some time with the swineherd in the distant woodland , but part of the wood would have been cropped for fuel , poles , wood for repairs to buildings , fences , implements and so on , while a few trees may have been cut down for constructional work on the bridge over the Yeo or to build a new house . |
| 5 | Zeno had looked out to sea while a few words were exchanged , then laid a hand on Carey 's arm , as if about to hurry him along . |
| 6 | One must not overlook the ‘ crisis of 1858 ‘ , when scurrilous anonymous letters appeared in the London Times complaining about the sewage in Pau , and the high price of lodgings , while a few years later another medical man , Dr Madden , publicly attacked the climate as pernicious for pulmonary cases . |
| 7 | Some schools had no unauthorised absentees in either June or November , while a few schools recorded almost a third of the pupil roll as unauthorised absentees in June . |
| 8 | While a few voices , mainly from the safety of universities , call for their abolition , the majority of practical opinion recognises that examinations are inevitable and that three tasks are necessary to improve both their efficiency and their effect on the school curriculum . |