Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 2 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 3 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 4 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 5 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We 've come up with a few names . |
| 7 | In Britain , those from the late Fifties and Sixties fetch about Pounds 1 , while pre-war badges can usually be picked up for a few pounds . |
| 8 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 9 | Some farmers cured their own bacon but most of the curing was done commercially by a few firms established for the purpose . |
| 10 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 11 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 12 | An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them . |
| 13 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
| 14 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |
| 15 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
| 16 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
| 17 | Even that will be used up within a few months , when further recourse to the IMF will be inescapable . |
| 18 | In this way , the small proportion of white cats that can hear will become more common and the defect could , in theory , be wiped out after a few generations . |
| 19 | Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools . |
| 20 | This is filtered off after a few days , and the company is left with sheets of a solid , somewhat resembling uncooked pastry , which is then flavoured and textured . |
| 21 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 22 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
| 23 | Ramesh K was then brought in for a few minutes . |
| 24 | The attractive plants flower for one week in late June/early July and are found only at a few sites in the New Forest . |
| 25 | Most innovations , however , especially the successful ones , result from a conscious , purposeful search for innovation opportunities which are found only in a few situations . |
| 26 | Most innovations , however , especially the successful ones , result from a conscious purposeful search for innovation opportunities which are found only in a few situations . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You see , Brownies , this hall is being pulled down in a few weeks ' time and new houses put up in its place , and there just does n't seem to be anywhere else for us to meet . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A few years earlier Aung San might possibly have taken to the jungle , bandit or resistance fighter according to one 's viewpoint , known only within a few miles of his own home . |
| 30 | The journey is a long one , but it is hurried over in a few words . |