Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Stevenson checks the first few metres of each weaving when it is removed from the loom . |
| 2 | TI 's Sparc marketing manager Phil Campbell said the first few lots of the reconstructed chip will be coming off the line in December with volumes following sometime during the first quarter . |
| 3 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |
| 4 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 5 | Sigarup and Murti Lāl followed the last few through the gap , whistling long and low , a final command to stop and be still . |
| 6 | Mark Sanders spent the next few days in his office , working late into the night to finalise the ten year European Business Plan and to summarise the massive document into a sixty minute presentation illustrated by thirty slides . |
| 7 | Chairman Michael Hurdle said the last few months of the year to March 27 had provided some evidence of an upturn in consumer confidence and helped increase operating profits by 10.2pc to £22.5m from £20.4m last time . |
| 8 | Thomas Telford ran the last few yards to the pump site . |