Example sentences of "and [verb] in a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home the sudden switch from inflation and boom to stagnation and slump in a few months made changes in policy inevitable . |
| 2 | As we 're gon na be commemorating and celebrating in a few moments the sacrifice to the very point of giving his own life . |
| 3 | On the minus side , the economy is small , unbalanced and concentrated in a few sectors , particularly electronics , financial services , textiles , whisky and oil . |
| 4 | She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days . |
| 5 | and try and get out of them what skills , you know , and chuck in a few ideas of your own , you know , |
| 6 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 7 | During 1965 , Crawford met former dancer Gabrielle Lewis , who had trained as an actress at drama school and appeared in a few stage plays . |
| 8 | All they had to do was pile the earth back on top of the coffin and toss in a few bulbs of garlic just to be on the safe side . |
| 9 | They pinch most of what they say from the student press in America and throw in a few tags from Colonel Ojukwu . |
| 10 | Not bad for the first day , she thought with a sense of satisfaction as she washed her hands and tucked in a few strands of escaping hair . |
| 11 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |