Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] few [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week .
2 Pedestrians scampered blindly across the road to catch waiting buses , the cars jerked ahead a few yards every time the traffic lights turned to green .
3 As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum .
4 The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground .
5 The following exercise would take only a few minutes every day .
6 ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’
7 Clare asked Carolyn , casually , if she was interested in taking on a few hours a week .
8 For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent .
9 We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs .
10 This waiting was the worst part , creeping forward a few feet every twenty minutes .
11 He turned his attention to the exploited — and , it was believed , unreachable — casual workers in the iron ore mines , women and men earning only a few rupees a day , living in squalor in dusty shacks on devastated hillsides .
12 SIR , — Harding and colleagues ( April 17 , p 999 ) confirm our observation that patients with malignant germ cell tumours treated in specialist units have better survival than those treated in hospitals that see only a few patients a year with this malignant disorder .
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