Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These qualification courses form a greater proportion of the total training carried out by the libraries who listed only a few programmes for 1984/5 ( see Table 9 ) , in general tending to constitute the main type of development training for non-professionals , especially in smaller libraries . |
| 2 | French channels may buy BBC and Independent TV company programmes and in 1986 the Hersant Berlusconi ‘ le Cinq ’ imported programmes made for Berlusconi 's Italian channels , yet otherwise it seems the four major European countries — Britain , France , West Germany , Italy — buy relatively few programmes from one another : for one French-made ‘ Chateauvallon ’ , there are 10 Australian ‘ Neighbours ’ or 100 US ‘ Dallas ’ and ‘ Kojak ’ on UK television channels . |
| 3 | A lot of small codling in the Menai Straits , plus a few dabs to 1 lb at Port Dinorwic and Beaumaris . |
| 4 | erm Right on the last few minutes with five minutes to go erm the erm Steven was again through and Leach had to go full length to save . |
| 5 | A wall clock ticked loudly : a few minutes to nine . |
| 6 | The muffled jangle of the bell disturbed her reverie , and she glanced up at the clock — it lacked a few minutes to three — her visitor was punctual as usual . |
| 7 | Eventually ( it would later be established it must have been within a few minutes of six-thirty ) the car slowed to a halt . |
| 8 | I checked my watch — a few minutes past five and decided that if Charlie had n't turned up by now he was unlikely to appear before the next day . |
| 9 | ‘ The shot that killed Garland was fired at a few minutes past ten . |
| 10 | A few minutes after eight , as they watched , a black flag moved slowly up the post . |
| 11 | When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted . |
| 12 | A few minutes after twelve o'clock I reported to the police station . |
| 13 | The Soiree on 23rd December 1869 took place in one of the distillery lofts " a few minutes after six o'clock when the hall was completely crowded , upwards of 600 persons being present . " |
| 14 | ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’ |
| 15 | The video shop did n't open up until a few minutes after ten . |
| 16 | We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire . |
| 17 | Tomorrow , May 21 , at a few minutes before six in the evening it will be precisely half a century since Wellington DV841 came down over the County Durham village of Roddymoor . |
| 18 | He had his suede shoes brushed over with a wire brush by the boot-black outside the General Post Office and arrived at Exchange station a few minutes before ten o'clock . |
| 19 | Nigel Gooch was hit with a fire extinguisher during the attack while he was on duty , just a few hours into 1992 . |
| 20 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 21 | ‘ I love it here , ’ she said enthusiastically , seeing that Lucenzo had relaxed to some extent and was actually exchanging a few pleasantries with one or two people . |
| 22 | He turned side-on to the enclosure and watched the low defensive wall as he walked steadily along the edge of the trees , a few paces in one direction , then the other . |
| 23 | Herringman bought few copyrights after 1678 , concentrating instead on republishing popular literary works and bringing out collected editions — Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher [ qq.v. ] in 1679 , Shakespeare in 1685 , Jonson in 1692 . |
| 24 | No you can all you can do is just learn a few each day or learn some patterns so that you can get quite a few words in one go and sort of learn some tricks like guessing well we 'll we 'll try with a C. |
| 25 | If you are not in Spain , it can also manage a few words in five other languages . |
| 26 | Part of the improvement stems from an upturn in the last few months of 1992 which was not evident last November , and part from an increase in North Sea oil , which is responsible for almost half the revision . |
| 27 | The last few months of '91 brought about a great number of changes , which does give hope . |
| 28 | For the first few months of 1952 flying concentrated on standardising the instructors and from February , with the arrival of the first B.2s , type conversion for the staff . |
| 29 | Careful study of the bird trade press during the first few months of 1989 led to the identification of a large number of advertisements offering species , such as the Scarlet Macaw , which may only be put on sale after permission has been obtained from the Department of the Environment . |
| 30 | Our losses in the first few months of 1943 were rather harmful , and would have been very damaging to morale ; something happened about that time which affected me very deeply . |