Example sentences of "[det] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If you repeat this a few times , you may well notice more tension on the second or third occasion . |
| 2 | He did this a few times before he realised the result would always be the same . |
| 3 | When you 've been through this a few times you 'll |
| 4 | Gurder gave this a few moments ' careful and terrified thought . |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd known this a few days ago , it woulda saved a lotta trouble . |
| 6 | They followed this a few days later by a two-pronged push , one prong spearing towards the Bostan-al-Amarah area and the other towards Ali al-Gharbi on the Baghdad-Basrah road , meeting some success in occupying heights overlooking the town . |
| 7 | From the tiny amount of light leaking around the door behind me , I could just make out the boards of the platform I stood on , and the first few feet of three narrow walkways emerging from the gloom , one cutting sharply away to my right , another straight ahead and a third branching left off this a few yards along . |
| 8 | The hillsides would have been covered like this a few centuries ago — genuine deer forests . |
| 9 | But Machiavelli , who one gathers is a favourite source of the author , gave us the lowdown on this a few centuries ago . |
| 10 | ‘ I photocopied this a few weeks ago . |
| 11 | Add to this a few arguments related to the preservation of choice , local market knowledge , and participation in technology transfer , and you have the case for not allowing air transport power to be concentrated in too few hands . |
| 12 | But erm anyway that 's it 's all it 's all now a few a few months ago . |
| 13 | You 've had few a few callers today Rod yeah ? |
| 14 | Some a few feet tall others up to 18 feet . |
| 15 | Though I missed the engagement party of my young Sheikh , I attended another a few years later . |
| 16 | There followed an explosion , and another a few seconds later . |
| 17 | The police chief Tuma was taken to court by one judge for breaking an October 1989 decree to remove the miners , only to be let off by another a few weeks later . |
| 18 | We worked together as a Club on this project , but one by one the members dropped by the wayside , until the good lady decided it was n't worth wasting the petrol coming to collect such a few items . |
| 19 | I 've done that a few times back home and , although you 're nowhere near full throttle , you can still have an influence on those around you . |
| 20 | Does that happen Have you had that a few times is it ? |
| 21 | I 've done that a few times with Ju ai n't I ? |
| 22 | I I I got a little bit involved in that a few years ago , when I was working on it , having had some scepticism before-hand . |
| 23 | you said that a few months ago . |
| 24 | She was threatened with that a few days later when she was sweeping the back stairs and her rear view was too much of a temptation for the young footman . |
| 25 | through them all a few times so |
| 26 | She came back to it all a few nights later . |
| 27 | The little girl was on her own a few yards from the rug where she had been sitting eating some moments before . |
| 28 | With the stimulus parameters usually employed to produce LTP , the duration of PTP is at most a few minutes . |
| 29 | Chemical shifts are generally of a few eV or less , and overlap of lines due to different elements is unlikely , as each element contributes at most a few lines in the range 50–1200 eV , while the instrumental linewidth is of the order of 2 eV . |
| 30 | Furthermore the designers are mainly concerned with lexical access , rather than speech recognition as a whole and the ‘ utterances ’ are at most a few words long . |