Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shaded his eyes and blinked for a few seconds until he had adjusted to the change . |
| 2 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |
| 3 | Put a layer of the meat and bean mixture in the base of each shell , add a layer of lettuce , top with the other chopped salad vegetables and sprinkle with a few olives . |
| 4 | Their seeds had remained dormant underground for years or come from a few surviving specimens . |
| 5 | Add peppers and tomatoes and cook for a few minutes , then add the remainder of the vegetables , the marjoram and wine and simmer gently for 30 minutes . |
| 6 | She 's cast off Charlene 's greasy overalls and pulled on a few slinky numbers for this role . |
| 7 | Add the margarine or butter and rub in with your hands or blend for a few seconds . |
| 8 | Not bad for the first day , she thought with a sense of satisfaction as she washed her hands and tucked in a few strands of escaping hair . |
| 9 | Supported by four Landrovers and equipped with a few flimsy spares , they sported jeans and shorts rather than jodhpurs , tee-shirts instead of ties and jackets , while on their heads they wore cheches — and definitely not pith-helmets. but if the style was different , the spirit was certainly reminiscent of those pioneer days . |
| 10 | The three of them talked politely about horses and racing for a few minutes , before Kelly decided it was time to leave . |
| 11 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
| 12 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |