Example sentences of "few [noun] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said that the few cabin passengers on board sailed under very different conditions . |
| 2 | He used to deliver messages for a few club owners on this patch , ’ Culley said . |
| 3 | Among the few Standish neighbours on the row is Eric , long gone from the closet and married to Stevie , a he-man former semi-film-star , whom he eventually stabs . |
| 4 | Other valley fields have a few dairy cows on grass . |
| 5 | ‘ Paul Spence has kindly agreed to give a few revision classes on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture to final-year BA students : Tuesday … ’ |
| 6 | In contrast to the previous month there were few air raids on Liverpool in April and although the warning sounded several times , no bombs were dropped until the twenty-sixth of the month . |
| 7 | And the speech was indeed a frank catalogue of the state of the personal computer business today : revenues down 14% , Apple Computer Inc , IBM and DEC contemplating low margins and sinking market share , the astronomical cost of developing a new package , the failure of PCs to penetrate much beyond word processing and spreadsheets , the monopoly lock of a few software houses on the marketplace and engineering 's inability to develop an intuitive box , all conspiring to dissuade any sensible PC guy from putting any more money into research and development . |
| 8 | AS the weather causes chaos with the fixture list there are few betting propositions on offer , but the final event of the day at Nottingham this afternoon is worth waiting for . |
| 9 | There are a few pregnancy marks on my stomach , round the navel , but my legs are long and unveined . |