 Marvin A. wrote: |
| In my dialect, that would be grammatically incorrect. I've never heard that construction before. |
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Just found these in the BNC:
LIMIT BY PART OF SPEECH: NO LIMIT BY GENRE: NO (HELP)
1 A05 skills as a chemist --; kept you going and, in some few cases, made you free. But most of those who stayed
2 ABM of Natural Reason into something worthwhile. But, with some few exceptions, the main results had been disputatious wrangling. The natural
3 ABM such as "Space, Time, and Infinity, and some few others". Besides being good test cases, Locke obviously finds
4 ALL Paisley, Trenton, Washington … it's self-evident. Some few may write a Declaration, others may sign it, but they
5 ANR . But it was not going to be easy; some few years after Malmesbury's comments another accredited diplomat noted à propos of an
6 B0G attendant customs largely died out through the l9th Century, some few lingering into the 20th. The stern Quaker historian of Liskeard,
7 B1F joys known to man. The same experience comes from some few words of a poet or a mystic; it is as if the
8 CJD beneath it, it may be many miles deep or some few fathoms shallow. It invariably supports an unimaginably vast quantity of living
9 CJF that the road was coming up in the world. Some few still showed the tell-tale signs of multiple occupation, dishevelled lawns,
10 CJF ." "He had political enemies, obviously. Some few from his own party, no doubt. But none as far as
11 CMP break the glittering ball into dark fragments, yet still some few couples could not bear to relinquish the last moments of peace.
12 CRX it is "known with clarity and precision only by some few thinking men in every nation and every age" (p. 64
13 CRX --; full rational insight had only been achieved by "some few thinking men in every nation in every age". The source
14 CS2 which we tend to think of as good there are some few things which are more easily conceived in abstraction from any larger social
15 CTW the fifteenth century. It was also carried on in some few villages: fulling mills operated at East Hendred, near Wantage,