Example sentences of "[adv] [art] few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am left to live out my life with only the few possessions I have managed to buy from my pension , because of Gary . |
| 2 | She had just begun to settle into her neat flat , and although it was n't furnished expensively the few pieces she had were chosen with loving care . |
| 3 | ‘ How interesting that after only a few hours you know so much about me . |
| 4 | If this helps only a few teachers it would still be one step towards our goal of all participants in classes joining the Society . |
| 5 | On their first meal of monarch the jays were violently sick ; but after only a few trials they had learned not to eat monarchs , though they continued to eat other , tasty food . |
| 6 | Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label . |
| 7 | After only a few days we were both madly in love , not just with each other , but with this beautiful island in the sun and with Crystal Springs , which we found by accident . |
| 8 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 9 | Having used version 5.5 for only a few days I could never go back . |
| 10 | I did n't have any regular bags in the years leading up to Tom Weiskopf because there were only a few tournaments I could go to . |
| 11 | Given that it is based on a model which examined variation among electoral wards within only a few regions it could be argued that it is more validly applied at a local level . |
| 12 | I put away the few clothes I had brought , together with photos of Mother and Father , and another one — a head and shoulders portrait of Clare , looking happy and unconcerned about her legs . |
| 13 | Sit down at your machine with a cassette player and knit , following Diane 's clear and helpful explanations and in just a few hours YOU will be the master of your machine ! |
| 14 | Just a few things she has to do . ’ |
| 15 | There are just a few questions I 'd like to ask you . |
| 16 | Besides — ’ again she pried her eyes away from the eyeglasses and looked at her cousin ‘ — in just a few minutes you are going to be transformed into a femme fatale . |
| 17 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 18 | In just a few moments you can see how much easier your working life could become . |
| 19 | For just a few seconds she stood petrified ; then , taking a deep , shuddering breath , she ran down the entry and into Lyra Street . |
| 20 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Even the few hours she put in gave her life some purpose . |
| 23 | Even the few examples we have seen illustrate how species with biparental care tend to be monogamous , species in which only the female looks after the young tend to be polygynous , and species in which only the males care for the young tend to be polyandrous . |
| 24 | That you se it was , it was on here a few times he talks deliberately , and rather slow |
| 25 | that I 'm w now , so what I suggest we do , is before we say we must make your premenstrual tension better with various manip various bits and bobs , and there are quite a few things we can do to help . |
| 26 | ‘ And I suppose there are quite a few things I have n't done . |
| 27 | Quite a few days it had taken Madeleine , this sewing . |
| 28 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
| 29 | been quite a few years she 's been |
| 30 | Det Sgt Gavin Barry , who led one of the groups of uniformed and plain clothes officers , said afterwards : ‘ We 've got quite a few leads we will follow up . |