Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I thought I might catch up on a few chores instead . |
| 32 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 33 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 34 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 35 | I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ? |
| 36 | At such moments he knew that he loved Frances , and he could feel the seductions of a conventional marriage , of meals such as this happening every Sunday , of knowing each other 's daily news , not always having to catch up on a few months ' worth of events . |
| 37 | So all them hassles what you 're gon na get in the future when they they 're gon na fall out in a few years time . |
| 38 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 39 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 40 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 41 | ONly in one report was it suggested that ‘ fundic gland metaplasia ’ was a transient lesion , which tended to disappear spontaneously within a few months . |
| 42 | They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due . |
| 43 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 44 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 45 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 46 | To prevent the ‘ feet ’ of wheelbarrows wearing away prematurely , reinforce them with a coathanger wire coiled tightly round a few times . |
| 47 | Our plan was to meet there in a few days ' time , once our researches in New York were concluded . |
| 48 | Although they were gruesome , the markets virtually ignored these widely expected figures to concentrate instead on a few signs of impending economic recovery , such as improved unemployment figures . |
| 49 | Still able to feel the firm sand beneath her feet , she swam quietly for a few minutes , before turning over on to her back . |
| 50 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
| 51 | It could be that the couple simply decided to go away for a few days , but those who know Mrs Allsopp say it 's unlikely she would have left without telling anyone . |
| 52 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 53 | Some farmers cured their own bacon but most of the curing was done commercially by a few firms established for the purpose . |
| 54 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 55 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 56 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 57 | Add the ginger , garlic and Curry Powder , fry gently for a few minutes . |
| 58 | But if we wait patiently for a few picoseconds until the charges rearrange themselves there will be no further motion and the problem belongs to the realm of electrostatics . |
| 59 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 60 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |