Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] [verb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince also demanded a few officers who were experienced in battle and who would exemplify his own ideas of how wars should be fought . |
| 2 | However , since the grant only purchased a few hundred books , these tended to " disappear once distributed around the shelves . |
| 3 | The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours . |
| 4 | It was as if he were a sheet of paper torn into many little pieces which she felt she had to cover entirely with her hand , but could not , however hard she tried , because the wind always blew a few of the pieces from between her fingers or from the edge of her palm . |
| 5 | His breathing had become rather quick and heavy , and the car suddenly swerved a few feet , as if he was no longer paying any attention to the road ahead . |
| 6 | JPs were for the most part recruited from the greatest landowners in a county , although commissions of the peace often included a few of the humbler type , possibly men with a legal background who were appointed to do the chores . |
| 7 | ‘ The marriage only lasted a few weeks , but he and Carol remained friends . |
| 8 | One man 's father told coastguards that normally the group only travelled a few miles along the coast on the speedboat trips . |
| 9 | The exclusion only lasted a few minutes , but it seemed a lifetime to her . |
| 10 | As the lease still had a few months to run , this section was worked as a further extension of the South Norwood line , using Croydon Corporation Milnes four wheelers . |
| 11 | Along the tunnel there exist a few modest zones of safety . |
| 12 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 13 | The message probably arrived a few minutes after we left . |
| 14 | Even if you make a complete mess of it , the model only has a few inches to fall . |
| 15 | The diagram also shows a few attributes of the entities . |
| 16 | The century also delivered a few gorgeous formal feminine odes : the Countess of Winchilsea 's address ‘ To Spleen ’ and Henrietta O'Neill 's ‘ Ode to the Poppy ’ , with its almost Keatsian languor . |
| 17 | And we 'll drop in on the way home to watch a few election results or do you think if I start having a party tomorrow night it 's gon na get out of hand ? |
| 18 | Most pubs in the country probably have a few regulars who think their local is the best in Britain … but one of them has just proved it . |