Example sentences of "not [verb] more than a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead . |
| 2 | Many great rivers — the Ganges and the Indus , the Amazon and the Yangtze — are so muddy that the animals swimming in them can not see more than a few inches ahead . |
| 3 | Books can be sold on their jackets to impulse buyers who may well not read more than a few pages once they have bought them . |
| 4 | Composers are notoriously fickle when it comes to performing their own music , but with a few exceptions ( the first part of the Diptyque being the most obvious , where the innumerable pauses , rallentandos and general changes of speed , not to mention more than a few smudges and slips , have no basis in the printed score ) Messiaen not only fulfils his own written requirements , but does so with utter conviction and persuasiveness . |
| 5 | Go on ; but do n't stay more than a few minutes . ’ |
| 6 | Do n't worry , Billy , I wo n't stay more than a few hours and by that time I 'll know one way or the other . |
| 7 | It does n't seem more than a few months since I was knitting clothes for her dolls — and now — ’ She held up her needles , speared through the left front of a pearly-white matinée jacket . |
| 8 | My son did n't live more than a few hours , but I can feel for the parents of that little girl . |
| 9 | Such large bombs are rather exceptional , though ; most are well under a metre across , and do n't travel more than a few tens of metres from the vent . |