Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I was talking to your Doctor who was wondering whether we might want to go out for a few beers at some point |
| 2 | The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 5 | Yugoslavia itself has benefited considerably from a few such direct investments from foreign countries , especially in the automobile industry . |
| 6 | These appear to die off after a few weeks in the water , but this is not actually the case . |
| 7 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 8 | She 's expected to stay there for a few more days , as a precautionary measure . |
| 9 | Unless the heart starts beating again within a few minutes the person will die , and in fifty per cent of all fatal heart attacks the victim dies within thirty minutes . |
| 10 | Again , while the emphasis in television has changed slightly from a few decades ago , for instance in the acceptance that women can be sufficiently authoritative to read news broadcasts , nevertheless we still have Westerns full of macho cowboys and soap operas with glamorous full-time housewives . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | so she 's got to go back in a few weeks ' time |
| 13 | Cos I 've got to go out in a few minutes . |
| 14 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 15 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 16 | yes , I should n't mind going away in a few weeks , if , if |
| 17 | Sometimes he is just a secondary figure floating in the novel 's bloodstream , as at the fête where he has got roped in with a few other young men to be a marshal and make sure everything goes smoothly . |
| 18 | You may like to think quietly for a few moments , then read these words from the first letter of John . |
| 19 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 20 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 21 | ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year . |
| 22 | ‘ He may decide to hold off for a few days and give steroids to develop the lungs , ’ Belinda suggested . |
| 23 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 24 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 27 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 28 | Each centre aims to build up in a few years the basis for energy conservation throughout industry , transport and construction — an ambitious target , which Chandler feels is achievable . |
| 29 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 30 | Luckily I managed to warm up on a few business trips ! |