Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] [verb] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Popular newspapers were able to find or invent a few examples of ‘ frivolous ’ applications for dentures or spectacles . |
| 2 | Erm I 'm just trying to think we really want to try and fit a few lessons into the holiday if you can it 's up to you fit in . |
| 3 | They are encouraged to try and take a few steps back and be a little more objective with themselves . |
| 4 | Modern plastics and silicones have made pipe connections so easy : no more messing about with tarred hemp and mortar , which inevitably cracked and leaked a few years later . |
| 5 | After a moment she felt herself lifted and carried a few paces . |
| 6 | Urquhart stopped and turned a few yards ahead of her . |
| 7 | Father Kipling stooped and said a few words to them as he passed into the sacristy to vest , and they turned round and looked at Clare . |
| 8 | When they had met and exchanged a few kisses , that would be time enough . |
| 9 | The diagrams for patterns will have a narrow seam allowance incorporated but add a few stitches if you think your seams will be well within the drawn edges . |
| 10 | But for some women , seeing and exchanging a few words with a number of other people during the day may actually be a source of negative feelings . |
| 11 | Off he goes and returns a few minutes later with friend and a dirty great Roller , all pristine chrome and gleaming fenders . |
| 12 | ‘ About 11.15 , give or take a few minutes . ’ |
| 13 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 14 | Well you always know that you know when they say twelve foot six it is n't quite right , they give or take a few inches . |
| 15 | The lifetimes of DNA messages ( give or take a few mutations ) are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years ; or , in other words , ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes . |
| 16 | While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it . |
| 17 | Since no apprentices were taken after 1910 , and since the age at which girls normally left school and began working was fourteen ( give or take a few months ) , the youngest women in the sample were born in 1896 . |
| 18 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |
| 19 | ‘ Give or take a few sandbanks . |
| 20 | Er and I said , Give or take a few days , and she said , Yeah . |
| 21 | Going and having a few meals with him did n't seem evil or furtive in any way . |
| 22 | Mr Wogan arrived and had a few words with me — and everybody else — but once again I do n't recall what we talked about . |
| 23 | Corbett nodded and pushed a few coins into the purveyor 's slack hands . |
| 24 | Gurder 's mouth opened and shut a few times . |
| 25 | The girl 's mouth opened and shut a few times . |
| 26 | Colin Dexter explains how his appearances started and gives a few tips to potential extras . |
| 27 | Okay , let's let's try and clarify a few points as we go along . |
| 28 | To escape , the heat has to travel up through quite large thicknesses of continental crust , and a large proportion does not get very far ; instead , it comes to rest and solidifies a few kilometres below the surface , forming enormous masses of igneous rock which have been forced or intruded into the crust and are known as batholiths ( Greek origin , meaning something like deep stones ) . |
| 29 | We rang and waited a few minutes , but no one came . |
| 30 | The reason he slipped out was to phone and make a few arrangements for them . |