Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |
| 32 | Trains can link Newcastle and London in a few minutes over two and a half hours . |
| 33 | It is true that he knew the Prime Ministers of the later 1940s and early 1950s , Attlee and Churchill , personally , and he was not averse to breaking protocol by raising policy matters with them behind the back of their Minister of Fuel and Power on a few occasions . |
| 34 | List all your outgoings and expenses over a few weeks . |
| 35 | Add the brandy to the meat juices and heat for a few seconds before igniting . |
| 36 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
| 37 | ‘ Oh , we 're supposed to know something about handguns , and fire off a few rounds every so often . |
| 38 | I wanted to spring an automatic rifle from my case and fire off a few shots , making them shriek and cower . |
| 39 | Invitations come via playgroups but parents of the few children who do not attend one can contact the headteacher , Margaret Sutton , at the school . |
| 40 | The initial orientation can not be predicted , but reversal after a few seconds ' observation always takes place in the same way . |
| 41 | Garden cress , curly endive , salad rocket and salad rape are other salads which can be harvested as seedlings within a few weeks , before they interfere with the maturing brassicas . |
| 42 | The yard was bright as day for a few seconds , then night crept back in around the flames . |