Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't , but I decided I 'd better think of a few . |
| 2 | His complete acceptance of the ‘ protest ’ in ‘ Protestant ’ did not come till a few years later when some leading members of his Mount Merrion , Belfast , congregation insisted that he object to the Church 's ‘ street corner boy ’ activities of picketing the Irish Presbyterian Church General Assembly . |
| 3 | Dana did not reappear for a few days , and during that time I felt I was going mad . |
| 4 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 5 | You see , when we went through the asteroid storm , I did n't watch for a few seconds . |
| 6 | The towpath proper did n't start until a few yards further down where it angled away from the road and followed the river ; here it was marked by a narrow strip of waterside grass and trees that would immediately raise the cost of any overlooking property by at least ten thousand . |
| 7 | Sir Stanley 's only regret is that he did n't play for a few years more . |
| 8 | The kingdom of Italy , the second big new state to emerge from the wars of the mid-century , had only to deal with a few French-speaking communities and some Germans in Venetia ; it did not yet have to face a minorities problem . |
| 9 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
| 10 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 11 | During the afternoon , while he sat idly chatting to a few men in the masons ' lean-to , James Menzies arrived , his brown horse soaked black . |
| 12 | I sat around picking over the few facts I knew . |