Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , one the " dose and move " system has operated for a few years this problem is unlikely to arise . |
| 2 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 3 | And what has happened before a few years have passed ? |
| 4 | These reasons may not be entirely true , but since formal advice on radon exposure was first issued in 1987 by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) great concern has arisen in the few areas of the country that have high radon levels . |
| 5 | ‘ Donkey has waited for a few minutes . |
| 6 | After its recognition in 1936 and its description as a clinical entity in 1938 , the prognosis has improved from a few months of life to a median age of survival of over 20 years . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , the ethos of competitive assessment often leads the student who has failed on a few tasks ( e.g. learned more slowly than other people ) to feel that he/she has failed as a person . |
| 8 | He 'd played with a few friends over the years but never managed to overcome the logistics of forming and fronting a band . |
| 9 | He himself was only a little shy — and obviously very proud of the English words he 'd acquired in the few months since his arrival . |
| 10 | Zen 's barking background could only have been a big plus the day he found a newborn baby whose entire experience of life was going to be lying abandoned for a few hours by a creek near Plymouth . |
| 11 | Mr Fallon said streamlining services and ‘ getting rid of a few managers ’ would benefit patients but moves towards a full merger would not win his support . |
| 12 | You think you can be safe by getting rid of a few hippy revolutionaries you used to know ? |
| 13 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 14 | Mesmerised by that wagging right hand , the South Africans he blew away on that dramatic fifth morning at the Kensington Oval in April could certainly have done with a few chunks of green kryptonite . |
| 15 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 16 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |
| 17 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 18 | Wallace looked threatening up front , and should really have scored on a few occasions . |
| 19 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
| 20 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 21 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 22 | It gets larger , and dormant chick genes become reactivated within a few days . |
| 23 | If the spontaneous origin of life turned out to be a probable enough event to have occurred during the few man-decades in which chemists have done their experiments , then life should have arisen many times on Earth , and many times on planets within radio range of Earth . |
| 24 | As the requirements of our living spaces alter , and more efficient central heating and draught-proofing keep our homes warm throughout , it 's tempting to get rid of a few doors or even eyeless to give our homes a more spacious feel . |
| 25 | The calculation behind the memorial was naturally that most of the women would leave to get married within a few years . |
| 26 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 27 | The weather had changed ; summer in its glorious profusion of colours had transformed the land that Corbett had travelled through a few weeks before . |
| 28 | A thing that I 've heard from a few directions recently is erm the thought of work shadowing . |
| 29 | Go on Jo go , go on Jo , go and get your word in that we 've missed off a few times . |
| 30 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |