Example sentences of "those few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From those few chances he has , like Payne , earned enough prize money — around £40,000 — to retain his Card for next year . |
| 2 | And there 'll also be at the club tomorrow morning an antiquarian bookseller , a dealer in manuscripts , and an expert in drawings , to see if there 's been the hanky-panky suggested by those few notes about Fishbane . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Relegate those few kisses to ridicule , why do n't you ! |
| 6 | Those few citizens of Taunton who walked the streets after dark tut-tutted and averted their gaze as the motley queue filed inside and settled down . |
| 7 | The Sun only just manages to keep alight and it tends to be those few protons that are moving faster than average that keep it going — which is just as well or it could have used all its fuel and expired before we arrived . |
| 8 | Only a few years before , Camille had been acutely concerned about her mother 's appearance , sometimes refusing to be seen with her in public , but now it seemed that she no longer minded : she had expropriated from Scarlet 's wardrobe those few articles that she felt would suit herself and had thereafter left her mother to her own devices . |
| 9 | And for those few women who parrot their words . |
| 10 | Those few women who shocked public feeling with a display of sexual desire were branded either as prostitutes , nymphomaniacs or lunatics . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since more than 90% of vaccines produce anti-HBs , routine post-vaccination screening is appropriate only for those few persons in whom suboptimal response is likely and whose medical management or employment duties hinge upon knowledge of their immune status . |
| 13 | Harbour improvements continued alongside the thriving coastal trade , but the biggest investment necessarily came in those few ports which dominated overseas trade . |
| 14 | The government saw it as a means to increase the resources under its control ; those few livestock owners who were aware of the project saw it as a means to acquire more stock and supplies of water , but with no thought of selling more of their animals ; the Bank saw it as an intervention which would initiate a commercial livestock industry in Tanzania , a means of increasing resource utilization and exports . |
| 15 | Nothing could make clearer the extent of God 's commitment to his world than the appearance of the Jacob stories so hard on the heels of those few stories about Isaac . |
| 16 | ‘ There now , Myles , does n't those few lines tell yeh all yeh need to know about Satan ? |
| 17 | ‘ That was the forty-seventh time we 'd done those few lines . ’ |
| 18 | Happily there were no injuries to those few horses and riders who did part company . |
| 19 | Those few studies of cinema audiences that do exist have employed the methods of mass sociology and market research , which can not fully capture the individual , subjective experience of filmgoing , since they miss out idiosyncratic detail and the personal dreamworld . |
| 20 | Those few studies that have been carried out in free-running experiments suggest that the body clock might run slightly faster . |
| 21 | Those few studies [ … ] that have reassessed parental characteristics at various ages of the child have shown that even in the course of a few months during infancy there may be drastic changes in a mother 's behaviour-sometimes resulting from changes in the infant 's behaviour , sometimes brought about by extraneous factors . |
| 22 | ‘ Only for those few feet outside . |
| 23 | To those few students of Latin who express a particular interest . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Her sister did not reply , confused by the question , and the anxiety that had been aroused by those few moments , during which two men had helped old Eleanor Thorne down the front path and into a waiting ambulance . |
| 26 | It seemed to Sam that she looked the tall girl over very intently during those few moments , but then most people looked twice at Evelyn , not because she was especially beautiful but she had a kind of composure unusual in a street girl . |
| 27 | For in those few moments I had seen another world of eternity and the meeting was relegated to the category of the fleeting . |
| 28 | For those few moments , as Zero 's invisible brethren attentively scan and store his transmitted data , he is no longer a wimp . |
| 29 | In those few moments Bert Rafferty saved Celia Carrow 's life . |
| 30 | She was still sitting there when the silence began , those few moments of suspended time that came before the sounding of the air-raid sirens . |