Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll leave in a few minutes and be with you in about half an hour . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll stay for a few days at least — if she can put up with me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ He showed them Viet Cong a thing or two , I could do with a few like 'im round 'ere . ’ |
| 5 | There are n't that many , but I could do with a few more clothes . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd settle for a few years with four legs like a cheetah and be able to go at forty miles an hour , ’ Otley declared . |
| 7 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 8 | I made him understand that he was to stay where he was and I would return in a few minutes with a tin of tobacco . |
| 9 | In the following sections , I shall look at a few examples of each type of problem with some illustrations from my own work . |
| 10 | I will conclude with a few general points about the methodological problems raised by Freeman 's paper . |
| 11 | I I can think of a I can think of a few th of them who are going to be completely incomprehensible to you . |
| 12 | ‘ I can think of a few names . |
| 13 | ‘ I can think of a few consultants , not to mention some very tired registrars , ’ she added ruefully , ‘ who 'd give their right arm to work in conditions like these . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But I can pencil in a few other little misdemeanours . |
| 15 | At present , however , there is a student gap , which may last for a few weeks or a few months , separating the exemptions from the day on which a person enrols on a full-time course of education . |
| 16 | The length of single eruptive episode , which can range from a few days to several years , will depend on the eruptive energy available once the ground surface is broken . |
| 17 | Some lending organisations charge a Mortgage arrangement fee , which can vary from a few pounds to around £50 . |
| 18 | You may live within a few metres of many if not most of the plant and animal species ever recorded in Britain , and perhaps a few that are new to science . |
| 19 | Maybe she should invest in a few more elaborate bio-amendments . |
| 20 | If travelling in a car , you might stop for a few minutes as a penalty , refusing to speak to the child until he behaves . |
| 21 | You might get through a few months , gross good luck see you to a year , but from then on the odds against survival lengthened considerably . |
| 22 | If she could fit in a few days ' break in order to attend the wedding in Andorra she would , she promised , and Peter returned to Rocamar the next day , leaving Sarella to close one chapter of her life and get on with the next . |
| 23 | Wrapped up in the everyday business of looking after her newborn baby , Belinda felt fine : she could cope for a few days . |
| 24 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
| 25 | ‘ The next day she would always phone to say that she had been in and she 'd pick on a few things that she was n't quite happy with . ’ |
| 26 | if you would n't mind in the meantime if you could think of a few names you know as you 're going about your daily business . |
| 27 | but in the twenties I was better at the pictures or somewhere like that , which you could get for a few pence , but you 're not walking about or doing tiring thing . |
| 28 | You could experiment with a few different distortion pedals . |
| 29 | But for now , she would not allow herself to think , she would rest for a few hours and then make arrangements to deal with business matters . |
| 30 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |