Example sentences of "few [adj] [noun pl] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had a few guilty twinges about ticking you off about those steps . |
| 2 | It is no wonder that we receive so few complaining letters about electricity prices these days . |
| 3 | We had a few concluding words about the literary scene in London , which he thought to have reached a pretty low ebb . |
| 4 | There were a few light clouds about and a cooling breeze , and everywhere the hawthorns were heavy with may and the hedgerows thick with wild garlic , campion , bluebells and the little star-flowers of chickweed . |
| 5 | At this point the brothers have been known to make a few derogatory remarks about the ability of ‘ newfangled ’ machinery to make this fine distinction . |
| 6 | Then John Williams , head of Chrysalis A&R , makes a few crap jokes about the wonderful marketing campaign the EC have been doing , plastering the blue'n'yellow LP cover all over Europe , before weighing in with a Mike Smash-style ‘ cue the music ’ and actually playing three ‘ cuts ’ from the album . |
| 7 | Charles rose and after a few mumbled words about thanks , and keeping in touch , and being cheerful , and seeing himself out , he left . |
| 8 | All that unpopularity in the country or in the Commons manages to achieve is a revolt by a handful of predictable Tory rebels , a few careful speeches about the need to present policy better , and a vague anxiety about the results of an election not due to be held for years . |
| 9 | That 's how he is , he just come around , crack him few sarcastic jokes about black kids . |
| 10 | Hobbes , for example , bases his analysis of the nature of the state upon a few simple axioms about the bodily needs and the personal desires and aspirations of men . |
| 11 | This is confirmed by the fact that there are very few serious statements about aid made by senior Africans on behalf of their country , or their region . |
| 12 | One of the few established facts about psychotic illness is that it runs in families and only the most stubborn social theorist could now deny that one reason for this is that the disposition to it , at least , is partly inherited . |
| 13 | But this was achieved only because she happened to be a good listener , and , after a few leading questions about his earlier life in the high , mountainous country of the South Island , he talked almost non-stop . |
| 14 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 15 | Having feasted on this rich diet of generalisable material , however , a few hard questions about its reliability began to surface . |
| 16 | Few basic facts about Easton station can be recorded without breaching this trust , and the manpower of police stations in Northern Ireland is not disclosed for security reasons . |
| 17 | So she had jumped to a few incorrect conclusions about Piers . |
| 18 | He wrote letters to her , funny ones with a few clumsy sentences about missing her . |
| 19 | It is a sober thought that had our colonial administrators studied early Roman Imperial history , instead of the gang warfare of the late Republic , a few useful ideas about the problems of subject people might have seeped into their thinking . |
| 20 | Introductions are important , and to say a few encouraging words about each individual can be helpful . |
| 21 | Although the speculations of a few Italian statesmen about the African shores of the Mediterranean hinted at the patterns of future international rivalry , the powers for the most part displayed in 1880 an almost complete preoccupation with European interests and lack of sensitivity about the rest of the world . |
| 22 | None of them ever enlivened maths lessons with a few handy hints about alternative sexuality . |
| 23 | Well produced , clearly laid out documentation that makes few sweeping assumptions about the user indicates that the supplier has thought about who will be using the system . |
| 24 | The researcher who collects data on everything under the sun , just because it seems so easy at the time to ask a few more questions about this and that , usually rues the day when the analysis of all the answers has to be carried out . |
| 25 | She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most . |
| 26 | There , that manoeuvre is known as gybing but really it 's as simple as that , sailing downwind you do n't have to change course very often , unlike when we 're sailing upwind with tacking but we need to show you a few more demonstrations about it in quick succession . |
| 27 | They spoke a few more words about the liaison arrangements with the local force , then Mercer left to supervise the removal of the body . |
| 28 | Under cross-examination I added a few more details about my supposed activities . |
| 29 | So anyway , that was it , you had to go to your branch and complain , make your protest in writing , see , and the branch secretary would reply to your letter okay , And they 'd ask for maybe a few more details about the complaint . |
| 30 | A few general notes about some of the remedies |