Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] few [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes .
2 On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night .
3 Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’
4 School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries .
5 Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there .
6 But the assumption that all morality means sexual morality is too widespread to go down without a few squawks of protest .
7 The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge .
8 The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox .
9 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 .
10 New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers .
11 Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types .
12 " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? "
13 I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr .
14 Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it .
15 The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates .
16 Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol .
17 I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’
18 We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs .
19 ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 .
20 ‘ We 've come up with a few names .
21 I thought I might catch up on a few chores instead .
22 For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial .
23 In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds .
24 The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems .
25 I wonder if you 'd care to wander up for a few minutes and we could perhaps move this matter of Gray on a bit ?
26 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 .
27 So all them hassles what you 're gon na get in the future when they they 're gon na fall out in a few years time .
28 He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother .
29 He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray .
30 The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time .
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