Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only got in for a few minutes as half the church was there . |
| 2 | The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them , protein kinase C. If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes , and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube , the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive . |
| 3 | It was in April of that year that F.W. Hardy , captain of Stockton Cycle Club , got together with a few others to complain that the Barnard Castle Meet was being dominated too much by clubs from Tyneside and suggested it was time for cycling clubs from the south of the region to break away . |
| 4 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 5 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 6 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 7 | Poured on to the plane , alone , Burton was humped for thirteen hours across the Atlantic , assuaged by alcohol ; stopped over for a few drinks in New York and then taken on an eleven-hour trip to Los Angeles which was made tolerable by more alcohol . |
| 8 | We stopped off at a few cafes on the way so that we could stretch our legs . |
| 9 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 10 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 11 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 12 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 13 | To prevent the ‘ feet ’ of wheelbarrows wearing away prematurely , reinforce them with a coathanger wire coiled tightly round a few times . |
| 14 | Still able to feel the firm sand beneath her feet , she swam quietly for a few minutes , before turning over on to her back . |
| 15 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 16 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 17 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 18 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 19 | I was really touched when all the McCarthys drove up with a few bits and pieces . |
| 20 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 21 | I can if you want , it 's just that I came up with a few things that did n't make sense , they were fairly contradictory things . |
| 22 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 23 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 24 | The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe . |
| 25 | Rose drove silently for a few minutes . |
| 26 | He gazed calmly for a few seconds before he lifted his hand in greeting . |
| 27 | He frowned down for a few moments at the damp patch on the matting at his feet , then he shook his head , as if ridding himself of some unwelcome thought , and looked up at me again . |
| 28 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 29 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 30 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |