Example sentences of "[adj] few [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys headed for the tea-table , not quite hurrying , with the two umpires strolling behind and a frigid few paces apart . |
| 2 | Wondering why he had n't been awakened for his breakfast , he contemplated snuggling down beneath the covers for another few moments when he heard the door bell ring . |
| 3 | If it had been another few inches either side it would have been my neck or my heart and I would be dead . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's only for another few days then I 'll sign off , ’ Dad promised . |
| 5 | She was sitting up in bed , some few days later , tugging a recalcitrant comb through her long tresses , when a commotion from downstairs made her pause , her fingers still . |
| 6 | But some few weeks later she happened to bring home from the library a volume of Marx 's early writings . |
| 7 | yeah and you should turn the top few inches over and there was what he called the |
| 8 | Never be tempted to dig so deep that you bring up raw clay , but work assiduously on the top few inches only , gradually improving the soil deeper each year . |
| 9 | Yeap Parker , hey there 's a good boy , sorry open the exciting few days when our witness , two fellows who broke in at |
| 10 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
| 11 | because it 'd give Mike an extra few days anyway , could actually have |
| 12 | This does not show up in the household statistics because many of these stays were for a brief few months right at the end of life . |
| 13 | They did n't plan a big order book these few weeks before christmas so that everything could get caught up and we 're all |
| 14 | While I just put these few beans on for dad that we do n't like in the microwave . |
| 15 | She would make the best of these few days up here , work and yet take time to relax and most of all to forget Fernando Serra . |
| 16 | Oh yeah we 've got a good few mushrooms there . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a good few decibels higher out of doors . ’ |
| 18 | The start was delayed for three hours partly because the bowlers ' run-ups were damp and partly because vandals , protesting about the omission of Deryck Murray , the local captain , had left wet patches on the pitch — and thrown a good few bottles around as well . |
| 19 | Both are gigantic construction projects , needing a large number of people to pass through them to be profitable , and with neither of them is the full return projected for a good few years hence . |
| 20 | There 's no hurry for that now that the money 's been cut back , Mr Silver can go on economising on space and heat and lighting for his twelve women workers for a good few years yet , and in any case , no-one 's been round to check up on him for a long time now . |
| 21 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 22 | The biggest developments in men 's fashion in the past few years — the explosion of sportswear in everyday clothes , the return of knitwear and the gradual softening of the suit 's construction — are more than likely to stay with us for a good few seasons yet . |
| 23 | There ya go Mark , that should give you enough ammo for a good few months yet : - ) ) |
| 24 | The whole essence of Conservative Party that 's put before the Environment Committee today and I remind us that it was only in a very short few months ago that this Council might be at cuts of up to twenty million pounds in order that low in the very country . |
| 25 | ‘ Only for those few feet outside . |
| 26 | He 's forgotten those few minutes already , she thought resentfully while a state of depression began to grip her . |
| 27 | The eye-witness accounts of what happened in those few minutes naturally vary in many details , but one of the most reliable descriptions of the actual eruption of the cloud was that of Monsieur Roger Arnoux , a member of the Astronomical Society of France , who was observing from a vantage point well above and away from the town . |
| 28 | You see , I think I was in such a state after glancing at those few pages simply because I did n't read any more . |
| 29 | The depressing facts of the matter are that in those sectors still covered by the councils , areas like shops and catering and laundries , security and administration , people are already working punishing shifts for pittances because their employers know the chances of being caught dispensing illegal hourly rates are minimal as are the resultant fines in those few cases successfully brought to prosecution . |
| 30 | But even during those few seconds when he is changing he is on one horse or the other . |