Example sentences of "few words [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same experience comes from some few words of a poet or a mystic ; it is as if the emotions of the poet that he has graven in his poem strike a response and the mind is transported . |
| 2 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
| 3 | I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon ( Mr. Amess ) for allowing me to say a few words on a matter that is so important to my constituents and to his . |
| 4 | The structured the structured thought patterns gave me an actual er organisation to my talk be it only just a few words on a piece of paper it was simple yet er gave the organisation to the actual talk while you stood up in front of an audience . |
| 5 | But for some women , seeing and exchanging a few words with a number of other people during the day may actually be a source of negative feelings . |
| 6 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 7 | He 's the butler There are usually a few words in a language that can only be used gesturally : for example there are presentatives like French voici , and toasts like British English cheers . |
| 8 | in Director of Public Prosecutions v. Byrne [ 1991 ] R.T.R. 119 , 125 , all based , as it seems to me , on a misreading of a few words in an earlier judgment as enunciating a proposition which simply can not stand with the statutory language . |
| 9 | However there is psycholinguistic evidence indicating that human listeners also have problems identifying the first few words in an utterance . |