Example sentences of "few [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did a spirit of affectionate remembrance obtain among the few whom Ursula felt obliged to entertain afterwards at Swans ' Meadow . |
| 2 | Platinum was one of the few I came across that allowed you to have any more . ’ |
| 3 | Not only does he appear in many guises — far more than the few I have mentioned here — but the Devil seems to be chief of the evil spirits . |
| 4 | The 32-year-old striker said : ‘ It has been a good week — one of quite a few I have had in my career . |
| 5 | It 's different to what I 've heard , very few I 've met have . |
| 6 | Er and she 's not I think there 's a few I 'm not sure . |
| 7 | Well you must be one of the very few I would have thought Mark . |
| 8 | Yes , yes , quite a good few I would think . |
| 9 | No , there 's quite a few I 'd forgotten there . |
| 10 | I put er yeah I 'd forgotten few I 'd picked up as well . |
| 11 | I have very few I 'm afraid . |
| 12 | Ah well , it 's only those few I mean I |
| 13 | There 's a few I have n't put on . |
| 14 | And it 's it i Seriously , it has happened a few I in my experience over the years I can remember it happening to me at least half a dozen times . |
| 15 | Yeah , there is quite a few I suppose . |
| 16 | But in all the buildings made today , in the most beautiful locations , there are very few which express their environment . |
| 17 | The surrounding hills , compass and map country , have dozens of marvellous trout lochs , most of which are full of sparkling little fish ; and a few which hold much heavier specimens . |
| 18 | Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected . |
| 19 | I have a few which appear on my living room carpet whenever I watch certain TV programmes . |
| 20 | Scanning through the Utopia 's 128 presets , the first thirty being exclusive to this system , Rocktron have tried to make them as varied as possible in order to demonstrate the rig 's potential , and while most of them are usable there are a few which defy logic . |
| 21 | The hoax warnings , the bombs which fail to explode and the few which do are undoubtedly disrupting normal life , especially in London . |
| 22 | This personal excursion has been around some favourite isolated hills — there are many others — a few which have given some of my best mountain days . |
| 23 | Such passages ( at least outside the Constitution on the Liturgy ) are remarkably rare , but there are a few which called for and obtained almost immediate implementation in a way that introduced significant new dimensions into Church life . |
| 24 | But most of the ions and electrons are deflected , and of the few which penetrate most do so up the magnetotail . |
| 25 | The following notes , questions and observations on courses which have a programmed development and which include written materials and tapes are just a few which may help one to assess the relative merits of the very many courses that are available to the EFL teacher . |
| 26 | If successful , such techniques could be applied across many countries rather than those few which possess occupational data . |
| 27 | Not those , but the few who respect silence , who respect the world , who are prepared to listen , who are prepared to change , who are aware of human weakness and vulnerability , who are aware of the imperatives of life and the imperatives of the work in hand . |
| 28 | But there are a few who are questioning the state of play , and who agree with Ben Whitaker ( 1979 : 312 ) when he urged ‘ that police thinking would profit if it more often came out of its shell and concerned itself with wider questions about the role of the police and human relations ’ . |
| 29 | There are fine expressions of true sensuality in this book , and great gratitude to those he left behind : Anne ( in ‘ For Anne ’ ) ; Annie ( in ‘ Now Of Sleeping ’ ) ; Betty ( in ‘ The Boy 's Beauty ’ : for Betty , his italics ) ; and beyond those unnamed lovers of yesteryear , not a few who responded to his charm and wit . |
| 30 | As we progress up the scale of profit-taking , we find others who sell at small craft fairs and those who find an outlet through local shops , until we come at last to the favoured few who sell at the prestigious crafts fairs which Hugh prefers . |