Example sentences of "[adv] a few time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the spider is not to be seen , try tapping the web gently a few times . |
| 2 | Loosen the holes slightly by moving arms and legs up and down a few times . |
| 3 | They swing to the top of the backswing and then practise with the left arm bouncing the club up and down a few times so that there is a feeling of taking control of the downswing and the right shoulder not wanting to push . |
| 4 | Apply on stained areas , dry and reapply a few times . |
| 5 | You have only to give in a few times ( out of many when you stick to your planned ignoring ) to lose the battle . |
| 6 | Some patients want no further contact with the would-be therapist after the initial assessment , or agree to see him only a few times . |
| 7 | He played only a few times for Clarke 's side before leaving to join the United All-England XI upon its formation in 1852 . |
| 8 | A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles , only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole . |
| 9 | Juliet felt quite pleased about this ; the girl was her own age , twenty , and , although she 'd seen her only a few times , she felt drawn to her cheerful , intelligent personality . |
| 10 | A flight crossing only a few time zones |
| 11 | Hector McDarroch , on the other band , seemed to take a pleasure in showing off his grisly implements , filling the long-needled syringe right in front of my eyes and squirting the cocaine ceilingwards a few times before he started on me . |
| 12 | ‘ We did go out together a few times , yes , Chief Inspector . |
| 13 | Stuart and I went out together a few times . |
| 14 | ‘ We have slept together a few times , ’ she said , ‘ but we 've never done it during school hours . |
| 15 | We even grabbed lunch together a few times at the hospital cafeteria . ’ |
| 16 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 17 | I think just a few times |
| 18 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |
| 19 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 20 | I woke up a few times and got Mum out of bed all bleary-eyed and irritable in her nightie telling her a bogey-man was after me . |
| 21 | Once you can keep this up a few times , then you are juggling . |
| 22 | Mike come up a few times . |
| 23 | And more recently there seems to be a tendency for people to say , ‘ he has been seen out a few times , he must be OK ’ , when the threat to my life is unchanged . ’ |
| 24 | Oh well I think I 'll ju I 'll just play with the tab and make it pop in and out a few times |
| 25 | ‘ It 's just that you 've been out a few times this morning . ’ |
| 26 | Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away . |
| 27 | The thing is I 've been out a few times with my husband cos it 's his car . |
| 28 | I had this other dream once , of me , and there 's this girl I used to like , right , and , and the weird thing was that in , in our group of churches , you used to sort of like , got one guy who 's , more senior , and erm , he had this daughter and my mum sort of fancied me marrying this famous preacher 's daughter , you see , and I took her out a few times , erm |
| 29 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 30 | From the look of the pile of branches , Travis had been back a few times , but he was absent still as she added her load to the mound . |