Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of strings which the algorithm keeps may range up to a few thousand , and each bit string may be a few hundred long . |
| 2 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 3 | Well it 's a question of balance I I the forty one thousand figure in my view should come down by a few thousand to reflect constraints in specific areas , I wo n't go into that now cos it 's a separate discussion later on . |
| 4 | I thought I might catch up on a few chores instead . |
| 5 | But , and I 'm not promising , the sun might break through in a few favoured spots . |
| 6 | And you 'll see why in a few moments . |
| 7 | Well thank you very much , it 's obviously a totally different point of view to what we 'll hear perhaps in a few minutes . |
| 8 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 9 | You might come away with a few commissions of your own . ’ |
| 10 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 11 | There was one person I thought might come across with a few facts , Mahoney 's girl , Connie Fraser . |
| 12 | It was n't until we told him , that he exclaimed ‘ Oh yes , I remember the Institute Netball Team first time round in the 70's — Oh yes , a right tough lot ! ’ — Marion , we 'll get together for a few team tactics eh ? |
| 13 | We all thought right okay , we 'll get out for a few days and matters 'll come to a head , get sorted out and we 'd be back at work , happy as anything you know , everything sorted within a couple of weeks . |
| 14 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 15 | But I could go up in a few weeks . |
| 16 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |
| 17 | I mean , we could go back in a few days and I could distract her while you … ’ |
| 18 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 19 | Grant , the people could come back in a few minutes |
| 20 | Then if you 'd lie down for a few minutes , have a few minutes ’ sleep , you were right again . |
| 21 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 22 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 23 | She would twitter on for a few sentences to get everyone else to give their opinions , then make a decision . |
| 24 | ‘ I would roll over on my ankle and it would pop out for a few seconds and click back in again ’ . |
| 25 | School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries . |
| 26 | Large particles will fall out within a few hundred kilometres of the detonation site ( the local fallout ) while smaller particles and gaseous radionuclides injected into the troposphere may be transported around the earth in the same hemisphere and between hemispheres by , for example , the East African low-level jet stream ( Findlater , 1974 ) , to be deposited hundreds or even many thousands of kilometres away ( the tropospheric fallout ) . |
| 27 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 28 | The disk will whizz around for a few seconds , and then you get the rows of statistics . |
| 29 | They rotate the hips , all babies are routinely examined at delivery and they 'll find quite a number I would , of babies with slightly clicky hips , the reason for that is because of the hormones that have , er are in the baby 's body to relax all the muscles , those will go away after a few days , so when they 're re-checked at twelve days a number of the clicks they heard originally will no longer be there . |
| 30 | Some think that he will go abroad for a few days and the CIA will then engineer his return in a countercoup , just as it did in 1953 . |