Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] few [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But officials insist that Poland 's national telephone company , PTTP , will be protected only for a few more years and will then be left to go bankrupt if it can not compete against privately owned network operators .
2 ‘ We are both talking nonsense , let us continue to do so for a few more minutes .
3 Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now .
4 Luckily by then we had enough material — together with a few more worry lines .
5 Collect the leaves and stems of the plant that the eggs have been laid on , and put them in the cage in a pot of water together with a few more leaves or shoots of the same kind .
6 Just for a few more days ? ’
7 She 's expected to stay there for a few more days , as a precautionary measure .
8 They stood there for a few more seconds , staring at each other .
9 Apart from a few more beers , ’ deadpans Dan , who has n't got any hair at all , and pretend to be unimpressed even by the supremely impressive .
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