Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |
| 2 | In the absence of heterogeneous nucleation or granule coalescence , and ensemble of 0.25-µm granules should have a crystallization half-life of more than 1,000 yr at 30 °C , whereas bulk samples of the polymer quenched to 30 °C from the melt typically crystallize within a few minutes . |
| 3 | Now that 's settled can I carry on moping for a few hours more ? ’ |
| 4 | I had n't , but I decided I 'd better think of a few . |
| 5 | Langstone and Portsmouth harbours best bet for a few flounder , with Eastern Roadd , Porchester and the Oyster Beds top areas . |
| 6 | ‘ You wo n't be going back to work for a few days , I 'm afraid , Francisco . ’ |
| 7 | Nurse Eileen Farragher said : ‘ Physically he 'll be okay to go back to work in a few weeks — but mentally he 's still shocked . ’ |
| 8 | He would be coming round to collect in a few minutes ' time . |
| 9 | His complete acceptance of the ‘ protest ’ in ‘ Protestant ’ did not come till a few years later when some leading members of his Mount Merrion , Belfast , congregation insisted that he object to the Church 's ‘ street corner boy ’ activities of picketing the Irish Presbyterian Church General Assembly . |
| 10 | Dana did not reappear for a few days , and during that time I felt I was going mad . |
| 11 | When animals do not fall into a few simple categories , quantitative genetic techniques become more practical . |
| 12 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 13 | You see , when we went through the asteroid storm , I did n't watch for a few seconds . |
| 14 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 15 | Sir Stanley 's only regret is that he did n't play for a few years more . |
| 16 | If his pains do n't subside within a few weeks , he really ought to see the doctor . |
| 17 | Well Sandy , we 've only looked at a few of the things in your shed and a very few of your photographs but it 's been fascinating . |
| 18 | The kingdom of Italy , the second big new state to emerge from the wars of the mid-century , had only to deal with a few French-speaking communities and some Germans in Venetia ; it did not yet have to face a minorities problem . |
| 19 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 20 | We 've already put in a few letters to start you off . |
| 21 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 22 | I need only quote from a few Welsh Office publications : |
| 23 | During the afternoon , while he sat idly chatting to a few men in the masons ' lean-to , James Menzies arrived , his brown horse soaked black . |
| 24 | ‘ The cards have only raked in a few customers , ’ Ashley said . |
| 25 | From an aesthetic perspective , the booths which successfully overcame the white-carpeted department-store ambience were those which staged one-man shows , or accrochages sharply focused upon a few artists , such as Galerie Jule Kewenig of Cologne with Peter Wutherich 's ‘ Literary Watercolour ’ ( 1992 ) , a beautiful , ovoid configuration of books , with titles and spines facing downwards and inwards , in shades of turquoise , green , blue and violet and Sophia Ungers , of Cologne with eight works by painter Stefan Mattes . |
| 26 | There are about 3,000 bears there and they could be a hazard if they come out of the dens and have n't eaten for a few months . ’ |
| 27 | I have n't toured for a few years now , apart from the World Cup and I made that an exception because I felt we could go all the way and win it . ’ |
| 28 | Yes , and I have even added in a few pictures which have never been seen before . |