Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [conj] [noun] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They chatted for a few minutes but Treloar had nothing more to say . |
| 2 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 3 | It was a few minutes after Allen recovered his bow that Friar Tuck and Simon the Trapper arrived at the tree . |
| 4 | In LDCs in general , the poor are disadvantaged because they have low levels of education and training and therefore have few skills or qualifications to help them . |
| 5 | It had been a few months before Roy realised he had married what his mother would have called ‘ a lazy bitch ’ . |
| 6 | The young Greindl 's few phrases as Daland show him devoid of the unsteadiness that would later mar his singing . |
| 7 | WADING THROUGH mud or swimming through a cold ravine with just a few oatcakes and nuts to keep you going is not very one 's cup of tea , but for six Risley lads it was fun . |
| 8 | She confides , ‘ He gets a few drinks and wants to wipe everybody out . ’ |