Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a [det] [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 following exercise would take only a few minutes every day . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This waiting was the worst part , creeping forward a few feet every twenty minutes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |