Example sentences of "[vb pp] a few " in BNC.
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| 31 | The fact that you have enjoyed a few jars together will not cloud a journalist 's judgement . |
| 32 | The strike was averted a few days before the scheduled date , after Confindustria , yielding to pressure from the government as well as from the unions , agreed to resume pay negotiations in the sectors concerned , and from June 1 , 1991 , to enter into negotiations on a new wage bargaining and indexation system . |
| 33 | At the Chalk Farm stop an attractive , freckled schoolgirl , about sixteen , in a smart navy uniform and white blouse , had got on and sat a few seats away . |
| 34 | ‘ It had been a quiet day and I had only caught a few small dace and then my rod thumped round . |
| 35 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 36 | If the previous Labour Government in which he served had only caught a few more headlines and been as active in prison improvements and new prison building as all Conservative Governments since 1979 have been , his comments could be taken more seriously . |
| 37 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 38 | Andrew Fowler was caught a few days later when police discovered the caravan at the girl 's former home . |
| 39 | JPs were for the most part recruited from the greatest landowners in a county , although commissions of the peace often included a few of the humbler type , possibly men with a legal background who were appointed to do the chores . |
| 40 | The new , Kixx-produced packaging tells you all you need to know about the controls and special weapons ; it even included a few tips on baddie bashing , but gives no idea as to how you came to be doing it or why ! |
| 41 | The decanter , diminished by Timothy Gedge , still contained a few inches of amber liquid . |
| 42 | - British Rail issue a new timetable and you have a nasty suspicion that they have juggled it around so that they have deleted a few trains and cut out that convenient late night one , and you look for your old timetable to check but it has gone with the wind . |
| 43 | Picked a few parcels and wrappers to Marks and Sparks . |
| 44 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 45 | These concerns were forgotten a few days later when Diana rose at dawn and travelled to the Lambourn home of Nick Gaselee , Charles 's trainer , to watch him ride his horse , Allibar . |
| 46 | Harringay — they 've took a few from Chelmsford , and as for the Blackburn Black Hawks , they used to be your team mates . |
| 47 | ‘ Only installed a few weeks back . |
| 48 | If he did , he would have to abandon the Volvo , always parked a few hundred yards away , and escape on foot . |
| 49 | Her car was parked a few yards away from the building . |
| 50 | True , we have reopened a few beds — for the patients of fundholding general practitioners . |
| 51 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 52 | Sometimes the photographs seemed exactly the same , or so it appeared until , somewhere in the frame , I would realise that a rock had rolled a few feet or yards , a tree was missing , a scarp subtly altered , and one had the sense of some immensely leisured , tranquil calibration of infinity . |
| 53 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 54 | Leeds were naive in defence , provided no cover , and could have conceded a few more ( for the record though , Fairclough played very well and made some very timely interceptions ) . |
| 55 | The mill has a large belt wheel at the second floor level and , at such a height , must have presented a few problems with the fitting of the drive belt . |
| 56 | You did say er , Bishop that you were going to be frank and you certainly turned a few corners there for us to think about . |
| 57 | In a memorandum written for the Commons ' Energy Committee , Andrew Holmes , the editor of Power in Europe , wrote , ‘ In the course of my work as a journalist , I have met a few environmentalists who can envisage some kind of long-term accommodation with the nuclear power industry , If waste disposal and other problems are satisfactorily solved ; I have never met an environmentalist who was not wholly and implacably opposed to the FBR . ’ |
| 58 | He had met a few he had liked , but they all had lacked something , he thought ; some mysterious quality which Miriam Durkin alone possessed . |
| 59 | But by the time you 've found that out , you 've met a few people , and you do n't need to hang around the hall any more . |
| 60 | She was one of the hardest toms he had ever met in his life , and he had met a few , but she had one vice : she was a dyke and liked the young girls . |