Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | This huge chamber is reached by a short spiral staircase which leads up a few feet beyond the gallery door in room 64 . |
| 2 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 3 | and she brings back a few bits , not enough for a child . |
| 4 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
| 5 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 6 | Mr. Frisby believes companies often pay little attention to the contract , thinking it involves only a few pence per copy . |
| 7 | Now , 18 days after the attacker was put behind bars , he 's been allowed to return home for a visit and he lives just a few doors away from the Strongs . |
| 8 | Any honest assessment of his chances of pulling this off should start from the realisation that he has only a few rusty tools at his disposal . |
| 9 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 10 | The list itself is secret , although it is a fair bet that it contains only a few genuinely brilliant minds , and fewer still who are likely to rock the boat . |
| 11 | You know , it happens quite a few times , does n't it ? |
| 12 | Running on paraffin , it costs just a few pence a day to run , and there is sufficient fuel for five to seven days continuous use , whilst radiating 170 BTU 's of heat stored in the 0.5 litre capacity base . |
| 13 | While the first group of dogs feeds — it takes just a few seconds for them to finish the bowls , right down to the lick clean — I huff on my fingers , more hopefully than knowingly . |
| 14 | On the tips it takes just a few years . |
| 15 | It takes just a few seconds to alter CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to make these changes . |
| 16 | It takes just a few seconds , but it gives horses better security for life . |
| 17 | It takes only a few minutes . |
| 18 | If the skin is healthy , it takes only a few minutes for the molecules to be absorbed ; much longer if the skin is congested or if there is much subcutaneous fat . |
| 19 | It takes only a few thousands of eV ( keV ) to bring two nuclei together and if they fuse you get over a million eV ( MeV ) in return . |
| 20 | It takes only a few minutes down to the shore , and I stop by the pier where one or two herring gulls are sitting rather listlessly , and a couple of hooded crows are poking about on the beach . |
| 21 | It takes only a few minutes to carry out this simple exercise , but it will greatly improve your ability to recognise genuinely lost coins when your search head passes over them . |
| 22 | When he 's finished his ballet routine — ‘ Lots of people come to see what Joe Mangle is going to do , and when I appear on stage doing my best arabesque , you can feel people thinking ‘ Oh no , he 's really lost the plot ’ — he throws out a few one-liners . |
| 23 | It seems only a few weeks ago , but is probably about a year , since I , through Points of View , had to draw attention to the Department of Transport 's annual statistics bulletin , The Allocation of Road Track Costs . |
| 24 | Ok , it seems quite a few people are into this fantasy soccer thing . |
| 25 | Turry has to be the best-armed hero of all time and when he picks up a few power-ups you 'd think he was invincible . |
| 26 | When a cosmic-ray encounters solid matter then in most cases it penetrates only a few millimetres and leaves a detectable track . |
| 27 | Yeah , this one , cos he knows quite a few , thi , few things about films so I wo n't say that one |