Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe she was being foolish in placing so much importance on those brief few words she- and Billy had exchanged in the park . |
| 2 | Over the last few months SCOTVEC and the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NCVQ ) have collaborated to produce a joint statement , the main feature of which is an agreement that SVQs and NVQs are compatible in their essential features and that there will be mutual recognition of these throughout the UK . |
| 3 | For the next few months Mr and I are going to home in on a theme for these services . |
| 4 | Hugh , himself I think he is completing his work and there , in , in a few months time and I know there have attempts made to find someone to replace him . |
| 5 | OVER THE past few years Britain and her European allies have been trying to adapt a system designed to catch Warsaw Pact spies to the task of hunting international terrorists . |
| 6 | In his last few years Kuypers and Gabriella Ugolini made use of viruses which travel into the nervous system and multiply in a pathway so that they cross nervous junctions and spread detectably along a whole connected system : a quite novel labelling technique whose full potential now remains to be realised . |
| 7 | With a few exceptions labourers and servants in Rutland were men whose assessments were below £2 , which in turn were virtually identical with subsidy assessments based on wages . |
| 8 | The harvest had started , everyone else was out in the fields , afraid it would rain , and for the next few days Libby and George joined in , stooking and carrying sheaves which they could seldom get to balance . |
| 9 | In the next few weeks Karen and Drew spent a lot of time together . |
| 10 | In the next few weeks Anne and Marilla worked hard together on the farm and in the house . |
| 11 | Over the next few weeks Avril and Peter , a Royal Mail executive , gradually got to know each other , but they remained just good friends . |
| 12 | During the next few weeks Bourke and Blake moved to several different apartments in London owned by friends who Bourke claimed were members of CND and named as Michael Reynolds and Pat Porter . |
| 13 | A few sports shirts and a sweater will do ; and they 'll probably not even have been unpacked when you get home . |
| 14 | One of the few problems Julie and her husband faced was choosing tiles for the splashback . |
| 15 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
| 16 | He sensed my curiosity about how much the twins were worth , and for a few seconds reticence and candour fought across his face , but then he shrugged . |
| 17 | ‘ We have had a few men demonstrators and we would like to encourage more , ’ says Kath . |
| 18 | The effect off the coast of Ecuador is twofold : first , the waters off the Ecuadorian coast ( a few degrees north and south of the equator ) are unusually cold — indeed , so powerful is the upwelling that a belt of this oddly cold water extends west from Ecuador for nearly 3,000 miles . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I 've done quite a few police jobs and appeared in front of the Royal Family . |
| 20 | And that 's Nick Harris talking to Ken Vasey up at the Manor ground and we hope to return to the Manor in a few moments time and see who else Nick has got to talk to us . |
| 21 | There was a tumult at the gates , and in a few moments Dunan and the Hearthwares joined them . |