Example sentences of "few [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All were firm but kind with the eagles , who were passive in return , but for a very few like Kraal who gave them as much trouble as he could . |
| 2 | ‘ It is the few with ideas who lead the many , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Helping to fill it , though , is a recent argument that Carlisle , as a civitas capital , was also a bishopric , and one of the few in Britain which survived the Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon transition ; indeed the civitas is seen as the homeland of St Patrick . |
| 4 | There were few in Britain who combined scientific and public life : Leonard Horner , John Lubbock and Lyon Playfair might be examples . |
| 5 | THERE ARE FEW AMONG US who put others before themselves . |