Example sentences of "give a few " in BNC.
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| 31 | Given a few more quid to spend , this lot could beat almost anything on Talkin' Loud . |
| 32 | Brown and his team should be given a few days ’ extension to accomplish that . |
| 33 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 34 | Sometimes some of the sheep and goats are hidden , and when the flock comes to rest at midday the boy is given a few minutes in which to inspect gothorima and report . |
| 35 | The task the reader is set is rather like that of completing a jigsaw puzzle , where we are given a few pieces at a time , and have to keep guessing what the rest of the picture will be like . |
| 36 | Given a few reasonable assumptions about f , it is guaranteed to find a best path from the start to a goal . |
| 37 | Given a few ideas either way on what a girl should do , I think family and friends should support her on her own decision . |
| 38 | Most of them were accorded pseudonyms ( ‘ I will call her Sylvia ’ ) and given a few lines of narrative , where their function was little more than to illustrate our hero 's appetite and prowess . |
| 39 | After being given a few minutes to study the diagram the sender is told to go ahead and the time is noted . |
| 40 | The British selectors were given a few tricky European Cup choice problems at Crystal Palace . |
| 41 | ‘ Paul Spence has kindly agreed to give a few revision classes on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century architecture to final-year BA students : Tuesday … ’ |
| 42 | The local battalion have rung to give a few more details of the incident . |
| 43 | The purpose of this chapter is to distinguish between the main types of bibliography used for selection , and to give a few pertinent examples of each . |
| 44 | If one team is losing it might be useful to give a few tips as to how to speed up . |
| 45 | When Bonington returns from his expedition to Panch Chuli , reads the contents of the notebook and sees the photographs he may be able to give a few more clues , but it is unlikely we will ever know what really happened . |
| 46 | In writing an auto-biography or the story of my life , or the intimate journals or diary of myself , it would be well perhaps to give a few details concerning my birth ; a date or two might add a little dignity also . |
| 47 | Few of us would be surprised to find an interviewer on our doorstep asking us to give a few moments of our time " to answer one or two questions " on our voting habits , which TV programmes we watch or which washing powder we use . |
| 48 | The easiest way to introduce the strategy is to give a few simple demonstrations : 1 . |
| 49 | He also said we should be asked to give a few extra lectures , to a wider group of comrades , viz. teachers who did not have the opportunity to attend the course full time . |
| 50 | At times he advised reverting to a lower potency if the higher potency aggravated ; at other times he advised giving a few doses of a partially similar remedy if any aggravation should occur ; he also suggested administering the remedy in liquid form , giving a few succussions before repeating ( the plus system ) . |
| 51 | At times he advised reverting to a lower potency if the higher potency aggravated ; at other times he advised giving a few doses of a partially similar remedy if any aggravation should occur ; he also suggested administering the remedy in liquid form , giving a few succussions before repeating ( the plus system ) . |
| 52 | The nature of the problem can be illustrated by giving a few examples of the types of conflict that may arise in a financial conglomerate . |
| 53 | I phoned and the man that I needed to speak to was not there , he 'd been seconded to the Himalayas or something , he was only coming back erm , in the middle of January , I was in , erm , November or whatever it was , I was giving a few days ' grace , and then I was going to call . |
| 54 | Simply by filling in a form giving a few details such as variety of wheat to be grown , date of planting and previous cropping in the field , Davies and his colleagues can , with the addition of weather data fed in 365 days a year from 45 centres around the country , predict with unerring accuracy exactly when the farmer should spread his ‘ Nitram ’ to get the best results . |
| 55 | Hmm well you 've been giving a few answers yourself over the last few weeks . |
| 56 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 57 | Instead , it gives a few lines of new advice on better cooking methods . |
| 58 | Earlier manmetric studies of the UOS in children used perfused sidehole pull through methods with sedation , an approach that only gives a few sample values of UOS pressure and these are influenced by the effects of sedation and stress . |
| 59 | Colin Dexter explains how his appearances started and gives a few tips to potential extras . |
| 60 | ON AIR : John Leslie gives a few TV tips to Colin at the Blue Peter Studio . |