Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the last few years a small piece of wall has been restored and recapped to preserve the last few remains . |
| 2 | We came together as a group almost by accident , but there was a convergence of our experiences and a symmetry to our ideas which made the first few months of our existence one of the most stimulating and electrifying of my life . |
| 3 | Using the first few feet of Scylla is Puppet ( E1 5b , 5b ) before it takes a delicate traverse out right to climb an obvious groove . |
| 4 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 5 | He followed this up by a brief speech about his poor old mother , God bless her sweet soul , and ended by singing the first few verses of Onward , Christian Soldiers , in a light , pleasing tenor . |
| 6 | Having the added bonus of a symbiosis with Richard Martin , but with the advantage of handling the first few episodes himself , Barry 's memory is of an intensely creative period in the weeks before his first studio session on ‘ The Daleks ’ . |
| 7 | Tenderly , she laid the first few bundles in the pail and sat back on her heels , blackened fingers curled , like a housewife waiting for the stove to light . |
| 8 | It 's not always possible in London but a short walk might well get you away from the crown and give you a chance to loosen up your legs , contemplate the last few hours and consider how your body is feeling in general . |
| 9 | Although the woods look impressively exotic and expensive , it has not been necessary to pilfer the last few acres of an equatorial hardwood rainforest in order to achieve the attractive grain patterns on these basses , hence the ( ultimately ) rather reasonable prices . |
| 10 | Moz 's dinner could then be brought into the yard without dumping it over the fence ; and the horse was then led up to this food , caressed a few times , and released while he was still distracted by eating the first few mouthfuls . |
| 11 | I just caught the last few minutes of a Yorkshire TV documentary , ‘ England 's Last Wilderness ’ , with David Bellamy burbling about the Pennines . |
| 12 | After she had scattered the last few blooms , she went and gave the girl a five pound note , Ulster Bank pounds , not punts . |
| 13 | He rushed along London Street and Bridge Road so fast that he puffed and staggered the last few yards to the cottage where he lived with his parents and two younger brothers . |
| 14 | The reason for this policy is that it is relatively easy to obtain the first few marks ( say 10 per cent ) for an examination question . |
| 15 | ‘ No diet is easy and I found the first few days hard , but by the end of the first week my skin became clearer , my nails grew stronger and my hair was healthy and shining . |
| 16 | A refinement of this is ‘ record revue ’ , which automatically replays the last few seconds of the previous shot as a check before returning the camcorder to record-mode . |
| 17 | She lay back , her body rigid , as she reviewed the last few catastrophic days of her life . |
| 18 | These days , more and more people are asking me , ‘ Mr Punch , how can we survive the next few years ? ’ |
| 19 | Glance at the sentences and memorize the next few phrases and look at the audience while you are speaking . |
| 20 | Practically sprinting the last few yards to the cottage , he pushed inside and dumped her belongings on the kitchen table before dashing out again and after the Land Rover as it groaned and grunted its way up the track to the colonel 's house , presumably driven by the garage mechanic . |
| 21 | Paid holidays , more affluence and cheaper travel have turned the last few decades into an era of travel . |
| 22 | In parts of India , goats graze the cotton after harvest and so remove the last few infested bolls and stalks . |
| 23 | Equation is seen , for instance , when we recognize a picture of someone we know ; and qualification was at work when a cave painter added the last few touches which made his bison look more energetic and more nearly alive than the others already on the rock face . |
| 24 | An hour later she added the last few remaining sticks and huddled down again . |
| 25 | Those people who have kindly attended the last few forums will have noticed the dearth of students for whom the event was organised . |
| 26 | He moved slightly in the bed , and felt the warm , naked body beside him and smiled , remembering the last few hours . |
| 27 | I must have missed the next few sentences . |
| 28 | The light was bad but Peter deciphered the first few lines of the left-hand page . |
| 29 | please contact and then we can do the next few hundred |
| 30 | To distance himself from his domestic woes it can be expected Gooch will drive himself and his players even harder than usual in training the next few days . |