Example sentences of "few [noun pl] without " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 2 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 3 | Air is so vital that it is only possible to live for a few minutes without it . |
| 4 | ( If it 's too long to do this right through , view the first few minutes without sound . ) |
| 5 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 6 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 7 | They sat in the car for a few minutes without speaking . |
| 8 | The portrait was painted in a few hours without Modigliani stopping for a single minute . ’ |
| 9 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 10 | She managed the next few hours without any problems — Marc seemed to be busy . |
| 11 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 12 | In kung fu one can not train for more than a few months without hearing the phrase ‘ chi kung ’ , repeated time and time again . |
| 13 | There were few stations without their coal sidings or their milk churns . |
| 14 | Due to the cost and unpredictability of showcases , few bands without management arrange them . |
| 15 | I noticed his saying in a magazine interview that he could never have survived these past few years without the help of Fleet Street — and that struck me as an unusually candid confession for a politician . |
| 16 | The root form has the ability to reproduce itself by parthenogenesis several times throughout the year for a few years without passing into another form . |
| 17 | Erm and I have to er pick up the point made opposite that the protection has been pretty good over the last few years without the policy . |
| 18 | To be fair most of us were P C's for quite a few years without radios and we worked out extremely well did n't we , without those radios |
| 19 | resolve and spirit after a few days without a bath , a week without a change of clothes . |
| 20 | All this has happened in the absence of any balmy warm spell , just a few days without cold nights and with midday temperatures hardly as high as 50F . |
| 21 | In a period of very bad weather , for example , especially in a rural area the post office may run out of real cash , as might other shopkeepers , after a few days without contact from the outside world . |
| 22 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 23 | ‘ Just remember that and we might — just might — be able to get through the next few days without any major problems . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Hope that you 'll finally understand what I 've been trying to let you know over the past few days without frightening you away by putting it into words . |
| 25 | Busacher rather thought they would rub through the next few days without an open revolt from Gesner . |
| 26 | But I think that in this company I can dare to make a few observations without being thought altogether gaga . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said . |
| 28 | There are now few villages without their complement of newcomers who work in towns . |
| 29 | If the lines are balanced you should be able to hold this position for a few seconds without the sail changing its position . |
| 30 | In the final phase of the experiment , the buzzer ( a conditioned stimulus ) sounded and the dog salivated after a few seconds without the presence of any meat powder ( conditioned response ) . |