Example sentences of "[pron] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The efforts of pacifists to prevent the Second World War have won them few friends . |
| 2 | In the 1770s , however , there were great numbers of ordinary people who overnight had become ‘ prisoners ’ of whom few , if any , of the gentry and nobility , let alone Members of Parliament were aware . |
| 3 | The force of such ideas and practices lay partly in their ‘ progressive ’ origins , which few teachers would be prepared to gainsay ; and partly in the authority of those who devised and presented them , whom few would dare to contradict . |
| 4 | He gave me few specific directions , but I could pour out my hopes and fears and failures and be reassured and restored . |
| 5 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 6 | It is an excellent book , as I took care to point out , except for my few niggles . |
| 7 | However , he added : ‘ On my few visits prior to my appointment , and in my short time here since , I have found it very far from that . |
| 8 | And as my few Acquaintance did not take to me upon the Account of Poetry , so they will scarcely fall off upon its ill Success |
| 9 | My few days were intermediate — cloudy , rough , with the reef and turbid water yet to fully recover . |
| 10 | I said good-bye to Uncle John and Aunt Janie , gathered my few belongings together and bought a one-way CPR ticket to Vancouver . |
| 11 | I arrived early for lunch on September 14th , and then went up to my shared room to unpack my few belongings . |
| 12 | By the end I had a great admiration for Emil , Oliver and Cathy , who had neatly served and cleared three full courses with the floor swaying beneath their feet and who normally would have taken my few jobs also in their stride . |
| 13 | Anything you can suggest as a remedy to prevent me from parting with my few remaining strands of hair will be welcome . |
| 14 | My few stumbling words |
| 15 | ‘ I was surprised to hear that he was married but I wanted a change of surroundings so I packed my few belongings and went with him there and then . |
| 16 | Freddie took my few belongings up to the garret where I was to sleep and spend most of my time until the baby was born . |
| 17 | I daresay that as a result of your letter and my few words , I 'll have an angry response from men who 'll say , ‘ what about the women who abandon their children for other men ? ’ |
| 18 | I was generally pressed for time in my few day in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well as it deserved . |
| 19 | In fact , I 'm going to submit this article as my few hundred words on Cronenberg 's Naked Lunch , and hope Esquire does n't notice . |
| 20 | He was so loving and in a moment I had bared my few troubles , and felt it almost criminal to worry him with one 's little difficulties . |
| 21 | My few meetings with Basil were all at Woolley Hall . |
| 22 | It 's amazing how quickly my few possessions become disarranged . |
| 23 | I sorted my few things out slowly , and splashed them with valedictory tears . |
| 24 | The Fat Controller entered the caravan casually , his eyes darting about taking in my few effects , our scattered clothes , the pile of economics books on the little table . |
| 25 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |
| 26 | My few months of married life with Helen had been so much lotus eating . |
| 27 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 28 | My few possessions mocked me . |
| 29 | When I showed my few pages to Shelley , he urged me to develop the story at greater length , and to underline the main idea more powerfully . |
| 30 | ( One of my few virtues . |