Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [unc] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a determined attitude , a few months ' really hard winter training under my belt and a driving ambition to put behind me the previous year 's exit in the opening round . |
| 2 | I suspect that we will find that John Major is both pro-active and reaction , because in the next few months erm up to some time before June nineteen ninety two , there has to be a manifesto produced for the next election , and I think it 's in that you will probably see the pro-active side of John Major and his colleagues . |
| 3 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |
| 4 | They have been over the past few days erm usually it was chocolate and apricot . |
| 5 | I , I know it 's a , I know it 's a problem with big , with big classes and , and , and few resources erm so er |
| 6 | Erm let me make a few announcements erm firstly Longmans the publishers are producing a large and they hope definitive dictionary of the English language and in aid of this they have asked various universities to produce examples , recorded examples of academic monologue and we 've agreed to cooperate and that is what this little piece of electronic wizardry is in aid of in case you were wondering . |
| 7 | He 's gone to bowl in the deep mid wicket position and Gooch just giving himself a few yards er mid-on . |
| 8 | That , that was the , you know there was that sort of spirit , there were very few scroungers er well there were scroungers of course but few people who er who did n't repay if , if they had a drink they bought one back . |