Example sentences of "[adj] few [noun pl] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
| 2 | After a further few days I brought my suitcases up from London . |
| 3 | Knew that she had warmed to him , that she wanted to ease his grief , and for a dangerous few seconds he thought he would cry . |
| 4 | But but in in just the little few words you used then , I would have thought that many parents in this church would react positively . |
| 5 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 6 | Apollinaire concludes : ‘ I believe that in these few words I have conveyed the true meaning of Cubism : a new and lofty artistic movement , but not a rigid school inhibiting talent . ’ |
| 7 | And yet … we 'd had such a good few days I suppose I wanted to keep the mood going . |
| 8 | to England it was a terrible few winters I remember really hard ones |
| 9 | From those few chances he has , like Payne , earned enough prize money — around £40,000 — to retain his Card for next year . |
| 10 | As autumn approaches , those of us with children have to leave the relaxed , informal and often cold and damp atmosphere of the pub garden in search of those few pubs which admit children somewhere within their four walls . |
| 11 | But in many cases the threat of legal action has been enough to stop those few shopkeepers who attempt to profit from glue and solvent sales to solvent misusers . |
| 12 | And for those few women who parrot their words . |
| 13 | Those few women who shocked public feeling with a display of sexual desire were branded either as prostitutes , nymphomaniacs or lunatics . |
| 14 | Those few authorities which do not at present have a policy on health education might care to consider the influence which this has on the development of school policy . |
| 15 | Harbour improvements continued alongside the thriving coastal trade , but the biggest investment necessarily came in those few ports which dominated overseas trade . |
| 16 | Those few students who require a highly specialized training in computer-aided research skills , can and should be taught by historians though the provision need not be available at every single university . |
| 17 | And in those few moments he looked so much like his father , Major John Lewis , the man who had first taken her virginity , and later betrayed her husband . |
| 18 | But at least for those few moments he had shown as human , like other men . |
| 19 | For in those few moments I had seen another world of eternity and the meeting was relegated to the category of the fleeting . |
| 20 | Among churchmen , even those few bishops who had given enthusiastic support to the coup of 1327 had done so largely out of exasperation with the Despensers ' greed on the Marches or with royal failure to defend the north against Scotland : such personal links as they may have had with Isabella and Mortimer were strained both by a peace which left the north exposed and by Mortimer 's ruthless venality . |
| 21 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 22 | In summer , too , you can read the ridge and furrow in an even more attractive way , although this is possible only on those few fields which have not been ‘ improved ’ to an all-over green of fertilized rye-grass . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't care about the baby , ’ Philip said , and with those few words he doomed his unborn son . |
| 24 | In pursuance of this nonsense , you not only hear those few callers who succeed in getting through , you 're also subjected to a cheery stream-of-consciousness summary of the grievances expressed by all the rest . |
| 25 | In those few seconds I saw myself returned to Leeds like a misrouted parcel … |
| 26 | Inevitably those few insiders who do undertake postgraduate research in the social sciences are aware that they are involved in the creation of ‘ clap trap ’ , and must know that this denigration stems from the implicit threat they pose to the structures of pedagogy and institutional power . |
| 27 | Those few councils which sought substantially to exceed government guidelines were brought sharply into line . |
| 28 | In this situation , the marginal mover acquires the power to reinterpret the way his institutional structure governs a desire for a rigidified world of immobility , and to understand why , for example , those few policemen who move into other areas , such as probation work or the legal profession , become totally suspect . |
| 29 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 30 | It was just eighty-eight days since he had recaptured his capital of Paris , yet in those few days he had shown the world how an emperor made armies . |