Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
| 2 | Well , I 'm joined by a few people who can give you some clues on guarantees . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
| 4 | I sha n't see you again — I 'm leaving in a few moments to drive down to Kildare . |
| 5 | I know Amy went to see it when it was at the Palace , I 'm talking about a few years ago , |
| 6 | I 'm retiring in a few months Daphne said quietly . |
| 7 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 8 | And er I was dragging behind a few paces and the headmaster was watching out of his study window you see ? |
| 9 | This is obviously easier if you are fishing with a few friends who are prepared to let you move in if they locate the fish first . |
| 10 | You are talking of a few pennies ’ pittance added to my weekly wage . |
| 11 | and if you 're coming for a few days you 've , you 've bag carrying and all this in the business |
| 12 | If you 're planning on a few intimate moments then why not try new Santes anti-perspirant deodorants . |
| 13 | She was invited to a few parties , kissed good-night outside her door in South Kensington , taken out to lunch by a young man training to be a chartered accountant , and to an Italian film by another who was ‘ in the City ’ ; she was beginning to forget about Rupert when one evening towards the end of January she was later than usual leaving Toogood and Shelve , the publishers , where she worked as secretary to Mr Shelve . |
| 14 | Detectives investigating the murder of Glasgow pensioner Agnes Law have revealed that she was killed for the few pounds she had in her house . |
| 15 | She was bought by a few enterprising Port Ellen gentlemen for £22/23 . |
| 16 | In other words , we were set for a few laughs . |
| 17 | It was nearly dark when we left Fontanellato and , with no lights about , it was hard to know where we were going after a few kilometres . |
| 18 | First impressions , and they are formed within a few seconds of listening to these headphones , are of an unveiled immediacy , very extended high-frequency response and seamless midrange . |
| 19 | They become quite unconscious of what they are doing for a few seconds , and yet insist that they want to carry on and learn to fly . |
| 20 | They 're tempted by a few hundred pounds to go to places such as Amsterdam where cheap and plentiful crugs can be bought and brought back to Britain . |
| 21 | They were persuaded after a few days to go back to far-off Shaanxi province and continue to do their duty in their ‘ adopted rural home ’ . |
| 22 | I did n't use a little animal every two seconds ; they were expended at a few a week . |
| 23 | As they gathered outside the wire waiting for their guard to open the gate into the camp , they were suspended for a few moments in a sort of limbo . |
| 24 | If it were to happen in a few year 's time when we have the lottery money , then I think the Sutherland Collection Collection is something that anybody concerned with heritage should make the highest possible priority . |
| 25 | But the pathway to discovery was established and the scale on which resources were expended to make these discoveries represents a fantastic extravagance when it is compared with the few thousands of pounds available to Florey and his colleagues , and even with the subsequent development of the original penicillins in the United States . |
| 26 | Throughout the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and through to the forties it was sustained by a few ambitious but poorly funded independent companies whose efforts received limited exposure . |
| 27 | They came to a halt at a barrier , assuming it was manned by a few nervous Italians . |
| 28 | Its herdbook was formed in 1892 and there was a breed society from 1920 to 1938 but it was reconstructed from a few remaining individuals , with the result that there was considerable inbreeding and a particularly popular bull , widely used for his whiteness , was later found to have spread a serious genetic defect ( hypoplasia ) correlated to the degree of whiteness . |
| 29 | It was used for a few emergency landings by Royal Air Force planes during the recent Falklands War . |
| 30 | This had no very radical consequences : it was dropped after a few years , Diodorus says ( xi.87 ) , because too many of the prominent citizens were thereby discouraged from engaging in political life . |