Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [coord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first machine was second-hand , £10 , with no instructions , no tuition and few patterns or magazines . |
| 2 | He could build his own Government with few debts or commitments . |
| 3 | She slid open a fitted wardrobe to their left to reveal a few suits and pairs of trousers hanging from a rail . |
| 4 | There were so few possessions or comforts in the room that it was clear Mr Sikes had met hard times . |
| 5 | He had been shooting since he was about five years old ; there were few clubs or competitions around at the time but the Scorton was one of the leading ones . |
| 6 | He made few friends ; he joined few clubs or societies , and after being elected to the college debating society was asked to resign because he never spoke ; he did not even spend much money . |
| 7 | Such excitements are rare ; The Hague has a few clubs and theatres and it will soon have its own ballet company , but for the most part the Hagenaars , as the residents are known , spend their evenings at home and retire at a respectable hour . |
| 8 | Erm , he worked , he was their sort of erm they had a few clubs and pubs in this area at the time and er |
| 9 | Booksellers also tend to prefer not to be associated exclusively with a few authorities or institutions , so that they themselves are less vulnerable to any changes in those libraries ' policies . |
| 10 | The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies . |
| 11 | However , few disciplines or academics are ever wholly ‘ normal ’ . |
| 12 | At the western end of the bay a few houses and Ireland 's smallest church , measuring 12ft by 6ft , make up the picturesque hamlet of Partbraddan . |
| 13 | But it was little more than a hamlet : a fine but small Norman church , an inn , a few houses and cottages and in the distance , farm buildings . |
| 14 | It has a few houses and shops , even a post office . |
| 15 | The high school environment , it would seem , is one with few peaks and troughs , undemanding and emotionally flat . |
| 16 | Stephen , indeed , had written in 1771 to another botanist saying ‘ our country produces but few uncommon plants : we have no mountains , few woods or marshes . ’ |
| 17 | THE PATTERN OF PARLIAMENTARY ENCLOSURE IN NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE AND SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE This ‘ open ’ pattern of compact villages and few roads and lanes should be compared with Fig. 7 , which shows the ‘ close ’ pattern of early medieval colonisation on the heavy London Clays of south-east Hertfordshire . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've tried quite a few times but mine are never any good . ’ |
| 19 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 20 | This means that each job is learned completely and thoroughly , but I could n't help thinking that a few musicians and/or luthiers at strategic points around the factory would n't go amiss — groundworkers who actually understand how a guitar works and who could spot problems from the playing perspective , rather than just the engineering view . |
| 21 | In the thin and trimmed hedgerows few birds or mammals find thick cover for heating and feeding their young . |
| 22 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 23 | Power has been concentrated in the Cabinet and in the hands of the Prime Minister , with very few checks and balances . |
| 24 | you know just cos there 's a few fights and drunks down there , I thought it ca n't be that bad . |
| 25 | They chatted for a few minutes but Treloar had nothing more to say . |
| 26 | WATCH receptionist/telephonist Ann Sheppard at work for a few minutes and productivity levels take on a whole new dimension . |
| 27 | That 's why he could end those last few minutes or hours of his life , in pain , but in peace , because he had the word , the assurance , the promise from Christ . |
| 28 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 29 | In LDCs in general , the poor are disadvantaged because they have low levels of education and training and therefore have few skills or qualifications to help them . |
| 30 | But there have been surprisingly few mergers and acquisitions . |