Example sentences of "[noun] a few [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Jus ’ fink of it , mate , me an' you givin' the lads a few lessons an' organisin' a few tournaments .
2 They thump your chest a few times and call the old crash unit and then they grope around for your pulse , but it 's a very amateurish affair really . ’
3 He simply shook his head a few times and went on grinning .
4 The Sparcserver 10 introduces a compact new version of the desktop pizza box enclosure : by lowering the bottom of the pizza box a few millimetres and stacking MBus and SBus expansion slots , SMCC engineers have created a more powerful desktop server with the same footprint as the Sparcserver 2 but with up to five times the applications throughput , five times the memory capacity , double the disk storage and 25% more expansion capacity .
5 He cleared his throat a few times and groaned like an aged dog in pain .
6 It meant driving up to the London Passport Office a few times and waiting around there for interminable periods , but I hoped that it was going to be worth it .
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