Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | One has simply to glance at the few fragments of these Galatica ( 745 Jacoby ) — all quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium — to be persuaded that the author of the Galatica is a younger namesake of the great Eratosthenes — perhaps a descendant who noticed the lacunae in the geography of his predecessor . |
| 2 | ‘ You wo n't be going back to work for a few days , I 'm afraid , Francisco . ’ |
| 3 | Nurse Eileen Farragher said : ‘ Physically he 'll be okay to go back to work in a few weeks — but mentally he 's still shocked . ’ |
| 4 | He would be coming round to collect in a few minutes ' time . |
| 5 | 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 . |