Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [vb pp] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the curiously claustrophobic , hierarchic world of the organisation , with the competitive pressures for promotion and jockeying for status , and the paranoid reactions this could induce , a few words spoken with a confident air of authority in certain ears at certain times could do incalculable harm , in my view . |
| 3 | It was not possible for the NFER project team to study in any detail the role of investigative work in a graduated test scheme , partly because few schools associated with the project had gone very far towards introducing it into their curricula . |
| 4 | She looked at the brown baked countryside , the dust and the withered grass near a few huts built with mud bricks , and corrugated iron roofs . |
| 5 | Throughout Northern Ireland , however , very few buyers bothered with the three words . |
| 6 | The City is one of the few places left with the old London buses you can jump on and off . |
| 7 | Up to the late 1950s , few infants born with spina bifida aperta were treated actively and there was a wish , usually realised , that they would die . |
| 8 | A few pounds spent with a fashion and colour consultant is a good investment . |
| 9 | Although the Irish elk is no longer with us , just from the size of its horns we can be fairly certain that it was polygamous , and that a few males mated with most of the females . |
| 10 | Finally , in a few patients treated with Asacol ( n=2 ) , Claversal 500 mg tablets ( n=2 ) , Salazopyrine ( n=2 ) , and Claversal 250 mg tablets ( n=1 ) additional biopsy specimens were taken from the ileum , sigmoid , and rectum . |
| 11 | In the lower reaches of the forest , then , there is a constant but low level of presentation of a few flowers dealt with by low but more or less constant densities of animals , whereas in the upper layers , the flowers are more conspicuously advertised and draw such animals as birds , which are wider-ranging and with good sight , as well as the local , more stationary pollinators from lower in the forest . |
| 12 | It 's one of the few herds left with no Canadian or American blood . |
| 13 | They waited to be told as much , but after a few moments realized with surprise that their hosts were evidently less enthusiastic . |
| 14 | Burmester also included a few samples contaminated with polyethylene glycol , a modern preservative . |