Example sentences of "lose a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We lose a few holidaymakers every year . |
| 2 | Er cos that 's why we 're so expensive when you lose a few engineers in transit . |
| 3 | Well there 's another lad he 's been ill in health he 's worked more now than he ever has cos he used to work a few days and lose a few days and he was n't . |
| 4 | ’ They use the excuse that the shops , especially the ones selling really expensive designer gear are rich enough to be able to afford to lose a few clothes . |
| 5 | Once , this woman from an agency stopped me in the street and offered me a job and I travelled to Manchester to her agency , but they said : you 'd need to lose a few pounds , and get rid of this spot , and things like that ; and I thought : I ca n't be bothered . |
| 6 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
| 7 | Now I want to lose a few pounds , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Brown Owl needs to lose a few feathers for the summer |
| 9 | Bruce was not so lucky , but in this particular year , he had a good week with his stock prices and could afford to lose a few shillings on the nags as he called them . |
| 10 | ‘ Great , ’ he reiterated , ‘ sampled a bit of the local night-life , lost a few francs at the gambling tables , and then found that we could n't drag ourselves away from each other , so we spent the night in a hotel . ’ |
| 11 | However the fact that she lost a few battles in Cabinet does not mean that she was not the dominant figure or that the Cabinet was supreme . |
| 12 | So can losing a few pounds if you are overweight . |
| 13 | You 'd probably benefit from losing a few pounds or taking more exercise . |
| 14 | ‘ I can lose a few centimetres from my waist any time , darling ! |
| 15 | I feel that although on the modern piano we may lose a few colours , we ultimately gain more : a wider expressive range , increased dynamics , the possibility to suggest a full orchestra , and much greater ability to permit cantabile in the higher region of the instrument . |
| 16 | I 'm afraid I 've lost a few friends and challenged a few others . |
| 17 | By week 3 , you should have lost a few pounds — at least four , possibly as many as eight — and you may notice a number of minor health problems have begun to improve . |
| 18 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 19 | but I 've lost a few pounds since last week . |
| 20 | Fiat , which has lost a few employees in Italy 's corruption scandals , issued a ‘ code of business ethics ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |