Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do remember , at the discussions with Verity , they even had a few sketches done of the kind of clothes she would wear . |
| 2 | With a turnover of about £250m , Virgin Records is one of the few independents left in the music business . |
| 3 | In an hour he was ready , his map taped to the gas tank , his few possessions strapped on the seat behind him . |
| 4 | The Girls used a combination of numbers five and nine ; a few streaks painted on the cheeks , chin , nose and forehead were blended with the fingertips . |
| 5 | Around its base , palm-trees were growing and there were a few houses built of clay . |
| 6 | In some respects , UDGs have performed reasonably well : very few projects implemented through UDG have failed and most provided tangible benefits . |
| 7 | I have , a few times waitressed at football Club dinners . |
| 8 | She was examining a few canvases stacked against the wall but she looked up at his question . |
| 9 | These people and their children differ from the so-called mixed race children only in terms of time , and are only a few generations removed from the point at which the mixture occurred . |
| 10 | In contrast , the few policies aimed at older workers have been positively intended to encourage them to withdraw from the labour market . |
| 11 | A few coins remained in my pocket . |
| 12 | Depression and a diminution in self care were noted in the few cases identified in the Kent Community Care project ( Davies and Challis , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | If you rely on your computer and value the investment you have made , then it is well worth the few minutes spent on preventative maintenance . |
| 14 | There can also be few musicals infused with quite so many infectious tunes or sardonic lyrics which embody perfectly the angst and awakening libido of the seven teenagers at the club on a typical Saturday night . |
| 15 | Increasingly it seemed to him that there were people who needed to spend a few hours locked in a room with the likes of Chiodini . |
| 16 | Only a few groups responded to our earlier notice , and one or two sent an order directly to Lisson Grove ( at the highest price ) . |
| 17 | Peter Kellner of The Independent and Newsnight , one of the few journalists acknowledged as an expert by the pollsters , wrote : ‘ I owe readers an apology . |
| 18 | There were a few guards scattered to the side of the road , all armed , no more than six or seven as far as Adam could make out . |
| 19 | There also seem to have been considerable baseline imbalances in the trial reported by Kinmond and colleagues , judged on the few characteristics described in table I , and so the same concerns must apply . |
| 20 | There are I suspect , few organizations represented around this table , public or private , that would wish a delay in decision . |
| 21 | ( This is probably why there are so few books written on doubt itself . ) |
| 22 | There have been relatively few books written by senior officers of ‘ the other side ’ , and this certainly provides a commentary that will interest historians of the 1939–1945 air war . |
| 23 | Since there are few books indexed under " swords " , the " history of swords " searcher may well be prepared to look through them all ; there are thousands of books under " history " , and only a minute proportion will contain anything of relevance to this searcher . |
| 24 | A set of silver vessels was found in the Silver Vessels Sanctuary ( Evans ' South House ) at Knossos , but relatively few vases made of precious metals have been found in Crete . |
| 25 | Facilities It would be difficult to find a more complete package of accounting facilities than are presented in Financial Controller , but be warned , there are very few concessions made to the tyro book-keeper in terms of jargon , which is strangely at odds with the ethos of the program . |
| 26 | Keep the party room fairly dark and decorated with ghostly-like pictures , broomsticks with a few twigs attached for the children to practise flying on , pictures of black cats and so on . |
| 27 | A few riddles written on paper . |
| 28 | This may vary from a few words exchanged over the garden fence , to visits which last all day . |
| 29 | The door of the house opened , and she heard a few words exchanged between David and his grandmother . |
| 30 | The few words posted to the tree informed everyone that Lovat had been badly wounded and was now in hospital somewhere in England . |