Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the meeting , it was decided that County , the underwriters Dillon Read and Phillips & Drew would take some of the remaining shares and then sell them slowly over the next few weeks , a move which had been discussed with County 's lawyers beforehand . |
| 2 | Murray bought his compass and they walked on together , beginning the skein of meaningless jokes and catchwords which was to bind them together in the next few weeks . |
| 3 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
| 4 | I hope to see most of you personally over the next few weeks but if I do n't then can I say ‘ Thanks ’ and ‘ All the Best for a healthy and prosperous future . ’ |
| 5 | their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win |
| 6 | If we 've not answered your question in this programme , I shall be writing to you directly during the next few days . |
| 7 | After all , it 's served you well for the past few hours and may now be looking forward to you treating it . |
| 8 | But I 've been watching you closely over the last few weeks , Aurora . |
| 9 | And in terrible conditions , erm , another country is Zaire where there is currently , I mean I 'd think there was a military coup or something there in the last few weeks , but these things are colonies which were n't connected to Britain , hoping I 'm being , I think it 's a French colony , they use a Belgian colony or is an ex Belgian colony , maybe in Belgium and France you would get more news about those two countries , but here we do n't , because they , we have n't got that colonial connection that makes us interested perhaps erm and , and when we do find out about South Africa because it used to be a colony , we do find out about , I mean Ethiopia I think we found out about because of the disaster that 's happening there in several of the countries all around it , used to be British colonies . |
| 10 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 11 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 12 | This and his link with Stevenson 's had served him well over the last few years , and he had become something of an expert in railway funding , especially in European railways . |
| 13 | I should like to put to my hon. Friend the Minister one or two points which , due to his courtesy , I have been able to discuss with him briefly during the past few days . |
| 14 | He was a fan of the BCR though he came to know it only in the last few years of its life . |