Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [verb] [art] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response was excellent ; quite a few regionals published the recipe itself and two or three of the writers on the nationals featured that vegetable in their own favourite recipes . |
| 2 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 3 | And so it is possible in these few words to dismiss a controversy which has absorbed many pages . |
| 4 | Anyone watching our programmes over the past few years knows the importance we attach to this . |
| 5 | It is important to use the first few sentences to summarise the story you are presenting . |
| 6 | It took him only a few seconds to find the page he wanted . |
| 7 | He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’ |
| 8 | She lay for a few moments watching the patterns it made on the ceiling . |
| 9 | Vic swings on to the motorway , going north-west , and for a few miles gives the Jaguar its head , moving smoothly up the outside lane at 90 , keeping a watchful eye on the rear-view mirror , though the police rarely bother you in the rush hour , they are as eager as anyone to keep the traffic flowing . |