Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surf from giant waves crashing a few feet away splashed his face . |
| 2 | He noticed a dark bulk lying a few yards back along the causeway . |
| 3 | Behind it , but within reach of stretching hands , stood a branching candlestand , also in wrought iron , with a box of matches in a brass holder attached to it with a chains and a tray containing a few small candles . |
| 4 | Hill and Whitlow taking a few chances in their own half and finally Whitlow 's dispossessed and it comes to Collimore . |
| 5 | Curing the problem at the design stage may only involve the addition of a component costing a few pence . |
| 6 | The boardroom was half empty now , just the Chester family remaining following the break-up of the emergency board meeting a few minutes earlier . |
| 7 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 8 | The sun is setting now , midnight sun ending a few weeks before , but it only disappears for an hour and even then it leaves behind its mark of golden twilight . |
| 9 | The season began in spectacular fashion when , within the first 20 minutes after the helicopter landed , Keizo Yanai , of the Institute of Polar Programs in Tokyo , discovered two stony meteorites lying a few hundred yards away . |
| 10 | this case concerns a claim for pain and suffering lasting a few seconds prior to death arising from the hillsborough incident . |
| 11 | The Colonel went towards the road to press forward the attack down the main street , a grenade that fell between his feet putting a few splinters in his hand , after he had dived for cover , and seriously wounding his runner . |
| 12 | It sees a tiny patch of the visual field measuring a few degrees of visual angle across . |
| 13 | There were astonished interjections from Harbury who had heard nothing of this before , but Shildon went on to say that the accusation stemmed from the sale of the lease on the top part of the Fleet Street building a few years earlier . |
| 14 | He made for it , taking a short cut through the carpark adjoining a few prefabricated sheds that called themselves the Hawkwood Industrial Estate . |
| 15 | As another explained , ‘ To most people a family row is Mummy and Daddy having a few words ’ , but when police are called to a domestic dispute in some areas of Belfast , |
| 16 | He wrote a letter to the Library Association Record asking a few basic questions : |
| 17 | As he sipped his cider , Yanto 's attention was drawn to a group standing a few feet from their table . |
| 18 | ‘ The flak seems to be less intense on this side of the target ’ said the bomb aimer in to the little microphone hovering a few inches in front of his mouth . |
| 19 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |
| 20 | Adam casually glanced about , nodding briefly to one of the regular customers dancing a few feet away from them . |
| 21 | She was still laughing softly as she laid the phone down , but the laughter died in her throat as she looked up to see Adam standing a few feet away , his eyes hard as jet . |
| 22 | A goods transporter — little more than a metal platform hovering a few centimetres above the floor — edged through the doorway , with the sixth android at the controls . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the Japanese , with relatively few elements of their three-million strong army , achieved more rapid success than they had expected : by 11 January 1942 they had occupied the Celebes ; on 4 February the Allies on Amboina surrendered ; on 15 February Singapore fell , and on 19–20 February Timor was invaded , the main force of its defenders surrendering a few days later . |
| 24 | In the same 1943 raid , Torquay was also bombed again and the deaf centre escaped with minor blast damage when a bomb fell on the St. Marychurch building a few yards up the road , killing 18 children who were in the building . |
| 25 | Because Pound the critic seems to be always in his shirt-sleeves sparing a few distraught hours or minutes from the more serious business of writing poems or translating them , his criticism is dispersed , though there is much more of it than we are likely to remember . |
| 26 | AS I SAT , gazing out of the Boeing 737 window watching the beautiful Norwegian countryside passing a few thousand feet below , my thoughts cam back to the reason for my visit . |
| 27 | Ever since 1979 the Government has been trying to widen and deepen share ownership , but apart from privatisations , which have resulted in millions of people owning a few hundred shares in one or two companies , it can not be said to have had much success . |
| 28 | The American embassy in Beijing is said to have received envelopes containing a few yuan as contributions from ordinary Chinese to the war effort ; and young would-be volunteer fighters have offered their services at the Kuwaiti and Saudi embassies . |
| 29 | Reception arrangements often went badly : a rural area expecting a few dozen docile grammar-school girls could find itself , at ten o'clock in the evening , invaded by a hundred resentful East End mothers with exhausted and fretful babies . |
| 30 | They bring home the inequality of material conditions : at the one extreme old men in filthy lodgings chopping a few sticks to keep warm , and at the other the lady of the manor supported by servants and a companion in her immaculate drawing-room . |