Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Seb had the men 's attention he said , more hopefully , ‘ She left her own camp in the forest to come down here hoping to sell a few trinkets to your men . |
| 2 | She earns between $800 and $1,000 a month , lives in one furnished room , and has just a few possessions of her own . |
| 3 | The furious dad packed his daughter and their few possessions into his 12-year-old Toyota Corona … and moved into the car park at council headquarters in Cromer , Norfolk . |
| 4 | The Colonel went towards the road to press forward the attack down the main street , a grenade that fell between his feet putting a few splinters in his hand , after he had dived for cover , and seriously wounding his runner . |
| 5 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 6 | The dilemma followed me through the publication of a few accounts of my researches . |
| 7 | Going along as a small independent with just a few programmes to your name does render you relatively powerless . |
| 8 | I have pleasure in enclosing a few copies of our new recruitment leaflet which I hope you feel will enable you to attract a lot of people in your area to become CPRW members . |
| 9 | The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car . |
| 10 | The Lake District , which she had visited a few times before her marriage and toured with friends , seemed a golden and available corner of gentility . |
| 11 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 12 | ‘ A mirror , ’ Reynard repeats , realising this is one of the few times in his life he 's been surprised . |
| 13 | I met Leonard Elmhirst a few times in his old age . |
| 14 | Edward sat frozen , one of the few times in his life he had been genuinely frightened . |
| 15 | It was one of the few times in my life when I actually spoke the truth . |
| 16 | However , when one of the assembled men had suggested that they could have used more men , Springfield had assured them their numbers would be quite sufficient for the job in hand , adding enigmatically that he had a few aces up his sleeve which would reduce the odds against them . |
| 17 | In addition to the remark about ‘ having a few aces up his sleeve ’ , something else the big sheriff had said was puzzling Grant . |
| 18 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 19 | Go and push a few notes on your own piano ; there 's no one here to wince at the sound you make these days . |
| 20 | 1980 ) were involved in very few interactions with their teachers . |
| 21 | The coroner gently pushed the keeper out before him , took , out his purse and clinked a few coins into his hand . |
| 22 | He placed a few coins by his empty coffee cup and waved at the waiter . |
| 23 | Anyone with a few coins in their purse , or gold pieces , was well advised to take a ‘ chair ’ or a ‘ cab ’ home after dark . |
| 24 | Surely such a spot offers few inducements for its selection as a place of permanent abode … an area of Jews , thieves , rags , filth , foul smells , and wretchedness . |
| 25 | His wife , played by Greta Scacchi , has a few secrets of her own . |
| 26 | Working people and shoppers here have as much right to sit in the sunshine at lunchtime for a few minutes as their counterparts elsewhere in the country . |
| 27 | " I shall be much happier , Nathaniel , if you do n't bother Chuck every few minutes about his future , " she said quietly without looking at her husband . |
| 28 | However , I 've just spent an interesting few minutes with my nose in line with the needles , gingerly winding the transfer carriage along with the ribber on half pitch — all in the interests of this article you understand , while hoping I would n't damage the transfer needle ! |
| 29 | I can knock fifty thousand miles off the clock in a few minutes with my high-speed electric drill . |
| 30 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |