Example sentences of "[adj] few [noun pl] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to have another few words with Mrs Morgan also , who was looking much stronger . |
| 2 | However , I 've just spent an interesting few minutes with my nose in line with the needles , gingerly winding the transfer carriage along with the ribber on half pitch — all in the interests of this article you understand , while hoping I would n't damage the transfer needle ! |
| 3 | When it has done this , it replaces the worst few strings with new strings , formed by randomly blending a random selection of the best strings . |
| 4 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |
| 5 | These present few problems with the requirement for a high vacuum ( though volatile solids may need to be cooled ) , and they give the highest possible density of sample , and therefore signal strength , but it must be remembered that the atomic environment includes neighboring molecules or ions . |
| 6 | Screening high risk individuals by colonoscopic methods is an established procedure , but identification is crude except for those few families with hereditary colorectal cancer . |
| 7 | Those few months with Justina in our family were very happy for us , and the friendship with both these couples and their children has continued , though unfortunately great distances now separate us and we can only communicate by letter and send photographs . |
| 8 | After those first few chats with his Aunt Emily , Alec soon realised that she was slightly senile . |
| 9 | By this arrangement we could position Viking almost to the nearest few inches with all the lines taut , a degree of control which was most essential in view of our position and the variations of tide and swell . |
| 10 | Notice the vital few words with the people at the garage , the bank , the booking-office , the doctor 's surgery . |
| 11 | Security said they 'd send someone over right away , and she busied herself for the next few minutes with the half-dozen patients in the waiting area . |
| 12 | The independent Phoenix Cinema in Oxford is set to play to packed houses over the next few weeks with a film that 's bound to be listed among the greatest successes of British Cinema in recent years . |
| 13 | The knockout competition begins in the next few weeks with the ultimate winners standing to collect £5,000 , plus a trophy and medals . |
| 14 | With the return to market relations for the bulk of the economy there also arose the need for a stable currency ; this was effected over the next few years with the introduction of a new , gold based rouble , alongside the paper Soviet rouble which was finally driven out of circulation . |
| 15 | ‘ Irrespective of the Panhellenic conference , we will need to co-ordinate our policy in the immediate next few months with the Greek government and political leadership , ’ Mr Clerides said . |
| 16 | Mike , an ex-philosophy student , was going off to Germany in the New Year ; Naomi from Bristol was about to embark on a Museum Studies course at university ; Liane , a weights and measures official , was one of the many volunteers who had helped at Uppark after the fire ; and Hugh , a quantity surveyor currently between jobs , set out to astound us over the next few days with his minimalist clothing ( some ancient jeans which were fashionably ripped at the crotch and a pair of lurid , exceedingly short shorts ) . |
| 17 | I 'll be keeping this for the next few days with me looking after it . |
| 18 | A further aspect of the family , linking these ideas of privacy , home and self-expression , has received considerable attention in the last few decades with the growth of popular psychology manuals on how to enjoy or improve married sex and , more recently , encounter groups and sexual therapy . |
| 19 | erm Right on the last few minutes with five minutes to go erm the erm Steven was again through and Leach had to go full length to save . |
| 20 | From dealing in the last few chapters with the language of individuals , we now turn , in Chapter 6 , to a discussion of how language is used within Caribbean families in London . |
| 21 | She knew she had been brought up these last few years with her Aunt Alice and Uncle Stan because of the instability at home . |
| 22 | You 've worked in the last few years with Prince . |
| 23 | Just as the rewards for European golfers have increased dramatically over the last few years with a circuit worth nearly twenty million pounds , so have they for caddies . |
| 24 | America has bought six machines over the last few years with two going to the Wellco Corporation and the remainder to Shaw Industries , the world 's largest carpet manufacturer with turnover in excess of $1.25 Billion . |
| 25 | She well be reviewing the foundation 's programme over the last few years with the aim of identifying any gaps or areas where new initiatives might be needed . |
| 26 | Mrs Leinen is spending her last few days with the children taking them for trips , including to London Zoo and the seaside . |
| 27 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 28 | Managing director Michel Apchin confirmed takeover rumours , saying ‘ We have been in negotiations for the last few weeks with a group that is not French . |
| 29 | But Mr Foley said afterwards that he had had several discussions over the last few weeks with Mr Clinton and he had not been asked if he wanted such an appointment . |
| 30 | The party had become a turning-point in many ways ; now , weeks later , she could look at it with a certain amount of dispassion , view her life over the past few months with a critical eye . |