Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 2 | PERHAPS foreshadowing a few desperate reactions this morning life-jacket , parachute and ejector seat specialist Wardle Storeys rose 12 to 376p . |
| 3 | Videodiscs have a window of opportunity to exploit , perhaps lasting a few years , before the digital media at last deliver their promise fully and affordably . |
| 4 | Although many people do not make such a dramatic move from a very special garden to a flat , most of us leave a few favourite plants behind when we move house , so framing a few of them serves as a lovely reminder of times gone by . |
| 5 | We got a free bus pass and we , we used our money to , which I 'm glad we did with my husband only having a few years . |
| 6 | Well , I mean Brody may be able to survive by not actually only having a few months between doing it and being revived I think . |
| 7 | Can you take easy exercise — walking or gently cycling a few miles , running up the stairs , carrying a heavy suitcase a distance — without becoming puffed or stiff ? |
| 8 | One then ‘ breeds ’ a new generation of routes by combining features of the best ones , and randomly altering a few details as a form of mutation . |
| 9 | At that , at , at at that time we 're only talking a few years ago |
| 10 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 11 | Cuts into the , it cuts into the we the weeks , I mean that sounds terrible , I 'll be , you 're only working a few days but it 's surprising the teaching days I do really , that really does cut into my time at home . |
| 12 | Knowing him , he is already keeping a few options open : polishing up his cover-drives and even experimenting , after watching Mushtaq , with legspinners and googlies . |
| 13 | Clearly , the hon. Gentleman was not listening a few moments ago when I quoted directly the Governor of the Bank of England saying that the conditions necessary to underpin a sustained recovery are now in place . |
| 14 | They consist of ridges of shingle and sand projecting above high water level and generally lying a few kilometres offshore . |
| 15 | If we are to do better than just preserving a few isolated museum forests , then major land reform is essential . |
| 16 | ‘ Just getting a few apples , ’ he said , smiling . |
| 17 | well you know if , I mean if you 're keen to keep on the course but just having a few difficulties |
| 18 | Of course , it 's Bonfire Night , so if you 're off to a display or just having a few sparklers at home , have a great evening . |
| 19 | so she were just having a few crumpets |
| 20 | So far his progress has been encouraging and he is already taking a few steps with the aid of a frame . |
| 21 | There are structural difficulties and the Council of Ministers has come up with a typical measure — just finding a few extra bob to see whether it will solve the problem . |
| 22 | ‘ I ai n't breaking no law , guvnor , I 'm just borrowing a few pence off my friend here for a drink . ’ |
| 23 | And I do feel that by just following a few simple rules like that we can avoid a lot of the problems that come into our advice centre . |
| 24 | With the benefit of experience , the authors feel that a more sensitive , qualitative approach , possibly incorporating a few standardised items , would have been better than using standardised scales for the difficult task of assessing depression and dementia in elderly people . |
| 25 | This brief has been fulfilled with distinction , and every three or four months for the past 20 years the office has produced an objective , well-documented , literate , and attractively presented booklet encapsulating the known facts about subjects ranging from suicide , rabies and heart disease , to the cost of running hospitals and what the public expects from the NHS , always adding a few percipient comments and conclusions of its own for good measure . |
| 26 | Alternatively the Goblin might survive the impact and bounce around two or three times , possibly breaking a few bones but definitely causing considerable damage to the enemy he lands on . |
| 27 | In Lobophytum species , the process is not particularly dramatic ; the polyps withdraw , the body of the animal will deflate , looking as though it has collapsed , and then when it takes in fresh water to stiffen up again , a thin , transparent layer of mucus can be seen detaching itself from the surface of the coral , to be swept away by water currents , the whole process usually taking a few hours . |
| 28 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 29 | You are probably experiencing a few second thoughts , not to mention sleepless nights , over a business arrangement or joint undertaking . |
| 30 | He ended up riding a few jumpers in France so its erm although he 's a good trainer now I do n't think he 's an authority and it 's poppycock er frankly . |