Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Okay erm let's perhaps make a few comments then about the Vienna settlement itself .
2	When they called on us , they would always say to Mum , ‘ Fanny , we came to see how you are getting on , but we can only stay a few minutes . ’
3	Sometimes the image would only remain a few seconds .
4	It is obviously every bit as important to respect the wild flowers in a foreign country as it is in one 's own , and not to pick large quantities of anything as you will only need a few pieces to create a floral souvenir of your trip .
5	‘ You 'd better break a few rules . ’
6	However , we agreed that self-help schemes could only bring a few jobs and that a central demand should still be that the state provide jobs .
7	Volunteers need only provide a few hours of their time a week to be trained as a tutor .
8	It had been assumed that , because the journey would only take a few hours , it was better to be in the open air than in the dark and unventilated cargo holds .
9	It will only take a few hours of your time .
10	It would only take a few minutes . ’
11	It will only take a few minutes , certainly .
12	I think it should only take a few minutes to have you begging me to make love to you … ’
13	‘ Should only take a few days .
14	I 'm just waiting for my international clearance now , which should only take a few days , and then I 'll be aiming to challenge for a first team place . ’
15	So his results were preliminary but it would only take a few weeks ' work , using the neutron spectrometer , to know for sure .
16	you 're not right , peppers I 've got green peppers at home so they 'll be alright , better have a few tomatoes ,
17	Er but radical certainly as compared to how things operated before , when you went into the fitting shop , you know , you could , you could only walk a few feet
18	Today he 's kept alive by a machine … he can only walk a few yards before getting out of breath .
19	When Durbeyfield heard he would only get a few shillings for Prince 's dead body , he rose to the occasion .
20	Finally , before anyone reminds me that there is a further important predatory invertebrate group , the Echinoderms , I had better add a few lines .
21	‘ I 'm hopeless on the guitar — I can only play a few chords . ’
22	Unless there is exceptional need they only work from Monday to Friday , and as the service is very short-staffed in many areas most people can only receive a few hours ' help a week ; although in special cases daily help can be arranged .
23	‘ I could n't bear to think of the future , of what would happen to her when we got old , if we got ill , when we died , or worse — whether she would only live a few years , ’ she says .
24	This requirement eliminates a lot of the older classical chemical techniques and indeed some of the ultra-modern high-tech instruments which can only handle a few objects per day .
25	The government said that fuel supplies would only last a few weeks , but that meat and butter would run out within days .
26	they could only snatch a few minutes together from time to time , usually when Daddy came over to Low Fields to look after the cattle , or during the haytiming .
27	‘ I 'll just do a few sketches , ’ she muttered .
28	‘ I 'll just fetch a few things we might need . ’
29	I think erm what , what we , what I 'd really like to do is if I could get in touch with him and give him the chance to make up his own mind er then he could decide whether or not he would like to have a chat with me and I 'd just run a few ideas by him , just as you 've done , without any pressure er and he can make his own decisions .
30	( And yet I remember one morning — when confronted by a preliminary plate of very sour , very cold slices of orange I could not stop a few tears trickling miserably down my cheeks — a gruff voice coming from the other end of the table .

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