Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [vb infin] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And surely , nobody in his right mind would take a few days ' vacation and miss out on the opportunity of selling his own plans and proposals to the President of the Corporation ? |
| 2 | My choice of heating equipment may raise a few eyebrows , ranging as it does from the advanced to the primitive . |
| 3 | The boy would spend a few weeks at a time with his father and when Sheila one day came to collect Scott , she mentioned that she felt she might well marry again . |
| 4 | The second half would follow a few months later , paving the way for a full IMF standby programme . |
| 5 | Perhaps somebody in the EMI top management will rattle a few cages in their American office and get them to take note of Mr Lewis 's efforts for the British market . |
| 6 | During any year most staff members of the Institute will spend a few weeks , if not two or three months , in erm some developing country , or perhaps several , and of course we 're also heavily involved in international agencies . |
| 7 | Let us hope the Medical Research Council can rumble a few answers . |
| 8 | Assuming the Boss and Big Boss can score a few wounds you are in with a good chance of winning the combat . |
| 9 | Performance of that order behind a BMW badge could shake a few prejudices , but these high-fliers may not be available in right-hand drive form until next year because of the demand for them on the Continent . |
| 10 | Once each has had a turn , the group may spend a few minutes discussing possible methods of achieving any identified learning needs . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend the Minister for Public Transport may say a few words about funding if he feels that it is appropriate . |
| 12 | Similarly , the French team will re-analyse a few examples of survey data collected by research workers at the Institute of Psychiatry . |
| 13 | Partial matches with the lexicon may have a few characters from the beginning of a word , together with approximate word shape information ( see also section 6.3 ) . |
| 14 | BRITISH Airways boss Lord King should take a few trips on Richard Branson 's Virgin Atlantic . |
| 15 | Question analysis and planning may produce a few ideas . |
| 16 | Perhaps the Cabinet should book a few seats … |
| 17 | ( Nearly new stalls at Rallies are proving popular or if you have access to a VHS video system , a coffee morning might raise a few funds ) . |
| 18 | In strictly layman 's terms , the amount of additional engine-weight and fuel that any supersonic aircraft could get off the ground would give a few minutes of sub-orbital time , if that . |
| 19 | Later , people would come along , dig him up and remove him to a more permanent resting place where the vicar would say a few words and it would all be over , except for those who remembered him . |
| 20 | The client 's cheque would take a few hours to arrive ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Any idiot could stick a few leaves from a houseplant on their heads , and wrap themselves in a bedsheet . |
| 22 | The transition from glass to crystals in a basalt may cover a few centimetres , but in andesites and rhyolites it is much broader , and large thicknesses of glass may be present . |
| 23 | Young Buster 's class should tell in the Hayselden Audi/ VW Doncaster Shield , but Taufan Blu could upset a few reputations in the Cammidge Trophy . |
| 24 | An hour later Guy refreshed himself with a jug of water drawn from the well and wondered how his host would take a few suggestions . |
| 25 | The City will bang a few numbers into its computers , mutter something about sector relative p/e ratios and come up with an answer : yes or no . |
| 26 | Though osmone may take a few days , if not weeks , to work , and not everyone can detect the smell , its action is gentle but effective , claims Dr Todd . |
| 27 | While a wire or a gate scheme might take a few weeks if spun out to the maximum , tunnels were sometimes under construction for six months . |
| 28 | Among orange mounds of dust and evil black pools the sawyers squatted , self-reliant Lowlanders who perched here like colonists and were tolerated because the sub-tenants and cottagers on the poorest land could get a few days felling trees when they were desperate . |
| 29 | Like the prisoner 's dilemma and its variants , the computer buying problem can have a few complications . |
| 30 | No , nan and granddad can bring one lot up and my mum and dad can fetch a few bits and then just keep bringing bits back , I mean |