Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least , let me stay here for a few days . |
| 2 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 3 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 4 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |
| 5 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 6 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 7 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 8 | Just for a change I teamed up with a few fellow warriors to take on the Witchlord in Gremlin 's RPG-for-the-masses , Heroquest . |
| 9 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 10 | I remember when after a few months in uniform duty , walking the beat , I was on West End Road , next to the Olympic Theatre , where there had been a building site and there was Collins World Fair there . |
| 11 | I struggled manfully for a few minutes , neatly nicking Ann 's fishing hat off , which we had to row after to recover ; catching Alan 's flies , on a back cast , and finally managing to get floss and line mixed up in an unbelievably intricate tangle . |
| 12 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 13 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 14 | well we ca n't go into the reasons for that but I said let's respect the reasons I said if that 's how you feel I said , you 're a man you you must make your own decisions I said probably in a few months time you 'll come |
| 15 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
| 16 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 17 | A burst of frequency between 10 and 10 4 Hz is expected with a duration of several cycles and an energy release of between and in gravitational waves from a star core of mass M. The mass M is expected to be similar to that of the pulsars , which average around for the few cases where measurements have been made . |
| 18 | Often the drive surface is just skimmed with tarmac which breaks up in a few weeks . |
| 19 | Can SHe stay here for a few days ? ’ |
| 20 | Still able to feel the firm sand beneath her feet , she swam quietly for a few minutes , before turning over on to her back . |
| 21 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 22 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 23 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 24 | She thought carefully for a few moments before she said , ‘ Silas — are n't you being unreasonable and somewhat unfair to both yourself and to Doreen ? ’ |
| 25 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 26 | She struggled furiously for a few seconds but her former strength was lost to her . |
| 27 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
| 28 | There was wild thyme growing up here too , and as she lay back for a few blissful moments ' rest its delicate perfume assailed Robbie 's nostrils — another sensory memory to be stored away , she thought wistfully . |
| 29 | She said to me , " Ca n't you get away for a few days ? " |
| 30 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |