Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Stevenson checks the first few metres of each weaving when it is removed from the loom . |
| 2 | TI 's Sparc marketing manager Phil Campbell said the first few lots of the reconstructed chip will be coming off the line in December with volumes following sometime during the first quarter . |
| 3 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |
| 4 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 5 | Sigarup and Murti Lāl followed the last few through the gap , whistling long and low , a final command to stop and be still . |
| 6 | Mark Sanders spent the next few days in his office , working late into the night to finalise the ten year European Business Plan and to summarise the massive document into a sixty minute presentation illustrated by thirty slides . |
| 7 | Thomas Telford ran the last few yards to the pump site . |