Example sentences of "[adj] few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Kegan had waited another few minutes I could have got it settled . |
| 2 | Doggedly she kept her head down over the jewel-coloured designs , trying to concentrate , but after another few seconds she gave up and laid down her pen with elaborate resignation . |
| 3 | After a further few days I brought my suitcases up from London . |
| 4 | From the following few recipes it is easy to see that there was never any one method of making English fruit creams and fools , and that over the past three centuries the two have fused . |
| 5 | Knew that she had warmed to him , that she wanted to ease his grief , and for a dangerous few seconds he thought he would cry . |
| 6 | But but in in just the little few words you used then , I would have thought that many parents in this church would react positively . |
| 7 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 8 | In these few words we may only point to the kaleidoscope of enthusiasm and activity by secondees that has been generated across the country in such a short space of time . |
| 9 | Apollinaire concludes : ‘ I believe that in these few words I have conveyed the true meaning of Cubism : a new and lofty artistic movement , but not a rigid school inhibiting talent . ’ |
| 10 | And yet … we 'd had such a good few days I suppose I wanted to keep the mood going . |
| 11 | to England it was a terrible few winters I remember really hard ones |
| 12 | After a heart-stopping few minutes it was realized that it could be just squeezed through with about three-quarters of an inch to spare . |
| 13 | From those few chances he has , like Payne , earned enough prize money — around £40,000 — to retain his Card for next year . |
| 14 | And in those few moments he looked so much like his father , Major John Lewis , the man who had first taken her virginity , and later betrayed her husband . |
| 15 | But at least for those few moments he had shown as human , like other men . |
| 16 | For in those few moments I had seen another world of eternity and the meeting was relegated to the category of the fleeting . |
| 17 | In those few minutes she 'd simply been reacting to the mood he 'd created so skilfully . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't care about the baby , ’ Philip said , and with those few words he doomed his unborn son . |
| 19 | I just looked at her very quickly — I was so nervous — and in those few seconds she was gone . |
| 20 | In those few seconds I saw myself returned to Leeds like a misrouted parcel … |
| 21 | It was just eighty-eight days since he had recaptured his capital of Paris , yet in those few days he had shown the world how an emperor made armies . |
| 22 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 23 | ‘ But those few gigs we did , with me playing guitar and singing harmonies , went down a bomb and we have been partners ever since . |
| 24 | The men march with their warders and when they are clear of the confines of the fences for those few steps they are hemmed in by the soldiers and the dogs . |
| 25 | They would n't serve us at the first few joints we tried , which was n't surprising , because we came through the door yelling our head off , or trying to , in this faulty new voice of ours . |
| 26 | After the first few incidents I began to suspect there was a pattern , so I tried to find it . |
| 27 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 28 | After the first few sentences he became bewildered , agitated , thunder-struck . |
| 29 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
| 30 | The first few times you go it 's interesting and exciting as anything new is , but eventually it 's hot and dusty and really quite boring . |