Example sentences of "few things in " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there are a few things in digital technology which have no possible representation in analogue form — infinite impulse response filters are a good example — most digital blocks derive their shape from the original analogue function . |
| 2 | He eyes me , thinking that , although I might have done a few things in the Arctic , I am still a tiny lad without any fat ; he decides that it will be just a few minutes . |
| 3 | She must have forgotten a few things in the holidays , like the time I pushed her in the school goldfish pond . |
| 4 | There are few things in the human condition more likely to create intrigue and speculation than the person who manages to progress through life without marrying , and those who have avoided a close relationship of any kind with the opposite sex arouse special interest . |
| 5 | Dad also told Ted that meaning could take years to emerge , but in the meantime he should live in the present , enjoy the sky , trees , flowers and the taste of good food , and perhaps fix a few things in Eva 's house — maybe Dad 's bedside light and tape-recorder — if he needed any practical therapy . |
| 6 | And then we took a remote truck down to Carl 's house and did a few things in his den . |
| 7 | Few things in life give as much pleasure as a well-tended garden . |
| 8 | Not wanting to cause friction with your partner is understandable , but it is worth bearing a few things in mind . |
| 9 | VERY FEW things in life beat seeing a steam locomotive in action . |
| 10 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 11 | threw a few things in an old army surplus |
| 12 | He expressed interest in few things in life beyond music , and the purchase of a series of improbably fast and expensive motor cars . |
| 13 | Few things in this house have been tiresome as |
| 14 | While Pamella flung a few things in a suitcase and scrambled off to Bali tout de suite , Fleet Street fanned out to play cherchez la femme . |
| 15 | ‘ It is one of the few things in which I excel , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 16 | I mean I get a few things in every week that , you know that you need , that you know er I go out on Monday and get everything else for the week like washing powder , and that sort of thing but u for food , I just get it every day . |
| 17 | Few things in the history of the eighteenth century , indeed , are more significant than the unquestioning support which the Russian monarchy continued to receive from its subjects in spite of the wild vicissitudes of intrigue and revolution through which it passed . |
| 18 | ‘ A couple of interviews this morning , and I met Penny Seu Chen this afternoon and she showed me round our building , studios and offices , and we rearranged a few things in mine . |
| 19 | Jenny had gone without a few things in her youth and was determined that their boy would lack nothing . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've put a few things in the room you might need — toiletries and something to wear to sleep in . ’ |
| 21 | I got quite a few things in there . |
| 22 | I know down at Evans I 've noticed quite a few things in there , there are different |
| 23 | I just put a few things in the wrong place because I did n't read , you know , put them in too soon . |
| 24 | I settled a few things in the bathroom there and then I had a wash , I 've had a wash and did all the about quarter to eleven . |
| 25 | now if I was to go there and back that 's eighty pence , I mean I could get , for , for that e extra eighty pence I could get a few things in there that are dearer but I mean I like going down the town anyway and just wander and go back but I do get a few more bits in there now than I did . |
| 26 | Oh she 's says It 's not coal , no , I do n't use it for coal , she sa I 've got gas central heating , we do n't need No it 's just that er well there are a few things in there . |