Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went away thanking her for her help , and promised to come back in a few weeks ' time when Bruno 's booster injection was due . |
| 2 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 3 | Luckily I managed to warm up on a few business trips ! |
| 4 | Yep , we managed to get in alright , pretty decent seats as well , even though it meant missing out on a few pints and getting there at 1o'clock . |
| 5 | And , although I did go home for a few holidays , most I seem to remember were spent elsewhere with friends or at special holiday camps that some of the other boarders went to . ’ |
| 6 | Edward appeared to think hard for a few moments and then got up and left the room abruptly . |
| 7 | I 've only met kennel cough once and that was last year , when a dog belonging to a friend caught it after having been boarded out when she had to go away for a few weeks . |
| 8 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 9 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 10 | To the Frenchmen behind , they must look like a couple of young lovers — youngish , anyway — who had stepped outside for a few minutes to admire the sights . |
| 11 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 12 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 13 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
| 14 | They stood gazing out at the few early swallows looping around the hazy , fragrant air . |
| 15 | ONly in one report was it suggested that ‘ fundic gland metaplasia ’ was a transient lesion , which tended to disappear spontaneously within a few months . |
| 16 | There is a fundamental contradiction between the official figures ( which , as Teddy perfectly fairly pointed out , showed that 75 per cent of those who went on Government schemes did secure subsequent employment ) and the common experience that such jobs tended to last only for a few months . |