Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] a few " in BNC.

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1 West ham came back strongly winning a few cormers .
2 You know , something more traditional , you know like maybe doing a few things out of The Sound of Music .
3 In late winter they should be cut back hard to leave a few cm ( in ) of stem , otherwise they can become rather straggly .
4 Eventually she simmered down sufficiently to complete a few small office jobs , and she had just checked the answering machine when the sound of voices floated through the open front entrance .
5 The media would still be able to cover current stories but within a longer-term , in-depth perspective so that Ethiopia or the Lebanon , Westland or nuclear disarmament do not simply occupy a few weeks ' worth of front page/main bulletin coverage per year .
6 A long line of reporters lined up dutifully to have a few words with him .
7 And by low temperatures I do n't just mean a few degrees below freezing , but the world close to what scientists call ‘ absolute zero ’ .
8 Well he does n't just have a few .
9 The novel he was supposed to be working on hardly progressed a few hundred words in a week .
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