Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 2 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 3 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 4 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and Distributed Computing Environment boxes on the bids : the Common Open Systems Environment will at least get it back in the running for a $20m deal at Boeing Co that requires Motif and Sun insiders reckon that the company will now include Motif in its price list almost immediately — the best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1 . |
| 5 | Sun Microsystems has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and DCE boxes on the bids . |
| 6 | Centres for teaching English as a second language ( CE2L ) are separate schools that have been set up by a few LEAs . |
| 7 | According to Grosskurth ( 1984 ) , some innovative schemes along these lines have already been set up by a few progressive British local authorities , but it seems that they are as yet rare , and reach only a minority of the people in need . |
| 8 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | An integrated circuit can be made up of a few capacitors , diodes , resistors and transistors or even thousands of them . |
| 12 | Even that will be used up within a few months , when further recourse to the IMF will be inescapable . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going out for a few minutes . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We will be reporting back in a few weeks ' time about this case and whether we have achieved a lasting and muzzle-free peace treaty between the battling Yorkies ! |
| 16 | A small budget might be swallowed up with a few very expensive cases . |
| 17 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |
| 18 | From a conservationist viewpoint , Hong Kong 's problem can be summed up in a few words : too many people . |
| 19 | The barges , designed to be sailed by one man and a boy , could be laid up in a few days . |
| 20 | And this information will be linguistically analyzed , and then used to help compile the new dictionary which will be coming out in a few years . |
| 21 | Back neck stitches can be run on to a few rows of waste yarn and removed leaving you with a set of shoulder stitches on each side . |
| 22 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 23 | ( The Soviet stance vis-à-vis Iraq had hardened noticeably during November with disillusionment over the expectation that 1,000 Soviet nationals would be allowed out within a few weeks following the Oct. 28-9 visit of Yevgeny Primakov [ see p. 37758 ] . |
| 24 | Lothar replied that he simply had a skin complaint that could be cleared up in a few days . |
| 25 | The first is in relation to debtor-creditor-supplier agreements where the amount owed is to be paid off in a few instalments . |
| 26 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 27 | Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | to consult the landed and trading interest of the nation , by lessening its incumbrances and public debts , and putting them in a method of being paid off in a few years ; which could not have been done , unless a way had been found to make the Annuities for long terms redeemable ; which had been happily effected by the South-Sea Scheme , without a breach of parliamentary faith . |
| 30 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |