Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 2 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 3 | It 's a proud day for all of our workers and we 're looking forward to a few interesting and busy weeks with the engine . |
| 4 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 5 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 6 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and Distributed Computing Environment boxes on the bids : the Common Open Systems Environment will at least get it back in the running for a $20m deal at Boeing Co that requires Motif and Sun insiders reckon that the company will now include Motif in its price list almost immediately — the best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1 . |
| 7 | Sun Microsystems has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and DCE boxes on the bids . |
| 8 | The attractive plants flower for one week in late June/early July and are found only at a few sites in the New Forest . |
| 9 | Most innovations , however , especially the successful ones , result from a conscious , purposeful search for innovation opportunities which are found only in a few situations . |
| 10 | Most innovations , however , especially the successful ones , result from a conscious purposeful search for innovation opportunities which are found only in a few situations . ’ |
| 11 | Centres for teaching English as a second language ( CE2L ) are separate schools that have been set up by a few LEAs . |
| 12 | According to Grosskurth ( 1984 ) , some innovative schemes along these lines have already been set up by a few progressive British local authorities , but it seems that they are as yet rare , and reach only a minority of the people in need . |
| 13 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 14 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 15 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 16 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 17 | An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them . |
| 18 | Even that will be used up within a few months , when further recourse to the IMF will be inescapable . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going out for a few minutes . ’ |
| 20 | In this way , the small proportion of white cats that can hear will become more common and the defect could , in theory , be wiped out after a few generations . |
| 21 | We will be reporting back in a few weeks ' time about this case and whether we have achieved a lasting and muzzle-free peace treaty between the battling Yorkies ! |
| 22 | A small budget might be swallowed up with a few very expensive cases . |
| 23 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |
| 24 | From a conservationist viewpoint , Hong Kong 's problem can be summed up in a few words : too many people . |
| 25 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 26 | But officials insist that Poland 's national telephone company , PTTP , will be protected only for a few more years and will then be left to go bankrupt if it can not compete against privately owned network operators . |
| 27 | I was doing things I knew that I would be doing properly in a few years . |
| 28 | And this information will be linguistically analyzed , and then used to help compile the new dictionary which will be coming out in a few years . |
| 29 | Even if there are relatively good overall stocks of rural council houses , they may be concentrated mainly into a few larger settlements , and persons who need to work in the more remote or smaller settlements can be severely disadvantaged . |
| 30 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |