Example sentences of "few other [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have since found a few other resorts like Argentiere . |
| 2 | It is elegantly Neo-Classical , although few other houses of the style have such enormous loggias , even though the loggia is such a feature of Italian architecture . |
| 3 | Even if it be true that the Roman system of water supply survived in Perugia and a few other cities into the Middle Ages and has been believed to be better than anything the modern world has yet provided — in most places water was hard to come by and almost as expensive at times as wine . |
| 4 | She has also been involved with the organisation of a few other projects including a National Sleep Out , which aimed to increase public awareness of Aberdeen 's homeless people and Dial-a-Santa which took place at the end of last year . |
| 5 | West Ham was an area adjacent to East London where formal politics during the 1920s came to be dominated by the Labour Party to an extent experienced in few other areas of the country . |
| 6 | Produced by TVS , Men of Science is now being shown in a few other areas for those not already suffering exophthalmos after an evening of Rising Damp , Cuffy , The Avengers and Pro-Celebrity Golf |
| 7 | He made the turn in one under par and was joined in a battle with the Spanish machine Jose Miguel and a few other golfers for the places from third downwards . |
| 8 | I moved my pyjamas , spare underclothes , a couple of shirts and a few other necessaries from my bungalow and stayed in the hospital bed next to Jimbo 's , snatching sleep and meals when Miss Sowerby took over . |
| 9 | Whether or not this small-scale self-publication works in terms of sales is less important than the extraordinary experience it can provide : that of working hard with a few other writers at making something , putting something into print . |
| 10 | There are a few other gardens in the Trust that would appeal to me after Killerton — places like Sheffield Park , Stourhead and Lanhydrock immediately spring to mind . |
| 11 | Against this , J.H. Gagnon and William Simon have argued in their book Sexual Conduct that sexuality is subject to ‘ socio-cultural moulding to a degree surpassed by few other forms of human behaviour ’ , and in so arguing they are building both on a century of sex research and on a century of questioning the notion of ‘ natural man ’ . |
| 12 | There are a few other forms of experimental instrumental conditioning , such as discrete trials and shaping . |
| 13 | Objects frequently provide a link with very ordinary people in the past , the sort of people who may have left few other records of themselves ( see Box 7 ) . |
| 14 | Although the terms by which police officers refer to black people are in common use in various other social contexts , they seem to be more commonly used within the Met than in most other groups : there can be few other groups in which it is normal , automatic , habitual to refer to black people as ‘ coons ’ , ‘ niggers ’ and so on … |
| 15 | The ministers who like the House either do so because , in their opposition days , they enjoyed its fellowship and had few other contacts in London , or they feel so confident of their capacity to score off the Opposition that they like revealing their talents . |
| 16 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 17 | The British National Health Service provides free urgent medical care for all residents of European Community countries and a few other countries with whom the UK has reciprocal medical agreements . |
| 18 | It shows that while the UK was in deep deficit in trade with the dollar area , in most years this was added to significantly by the deficit of the rest of the sterling area ( broadly speaking , the Dominions minus Canada , plus the colonies , plus a few other countries like Iraq ) . |
| 19 | A few other members of the music world — too embarrassed or well mannered to have left — applauded with him . |
| 20 | There were few other sources of economic mobility or excitement in rural areas . |
| 21 | There were very few other sources of employment , so most miners ' wives were confined to domestic labour ( a confinement enhanced by the ‘ slave ’ relationship described earlier — p. 110 ) , and were as tied to the colliery as their husbands . |
| 22 | Its third great function , that of providing the capital for urban and industrial development itself , it could hardly help fulfilling in agrarian countries , where there were few other sources of revenue for governments and the rich ; though it might fulfil it inefficiently and inadequately . |
| 23 | There are few other industries in which , over a long period of time , revenues have covered less than half of costs . |
| 24 | ‘ There was nothing else in the bag … a little money … a few other things of no importance . ’ |
| 25 | Other products are bought on the commodity exchanges , like to a large extent tea cocoa and a few other things like Rowntrees buying cocoa from Ghana but now they seem to buy it anywhere that they can get it cheaply . |
| 26 | A city where the fringe theatre meant Jim Haynes , Charles Marovitz , and a few other expatriates from across the Atlantic , and avant-garde cinema a night out at the 35-year-old Academy in Oxford Street . |
| 27 | Margulis 's theory is that mitochondria and chloroplasts , and a few other structures inside cells , are each descended from bacteria . |
| 28 | Apart from that possibility and the final pension , there were only a few other possibilities of organizational reward . |
| 29 | Barry Silk had killed more terrorists and a few other criminals in his old hometown of Belfast than anybody , and that included IRA , Loyalists — even the British Army — would ever know . |
| 30 | As he now wistfully recalls , there were relatively few other supporters for the idea when he and the late David Gray , the ex-correspondent of The Guardian , who became ITF General Secretary , launched their Olympic campaign almost ten years before gold medals were again being presented to tennis players in Seoul in 1988 . |