Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I boiled them in pan for the dog and I put some taters in and a few peas and carrots sort of thing and some Oxos and made him a r a right good dinner . |
| 2 | Forays had been made at night ; scaffolding had been torn down and a few workers employed in building Carewscourt had been killed . |
| 3 | It does n't take long and a few minutes trying things out could mean hours saved later and some useful space where you have used up some leftover yarns . |
| 4 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 5 | Given that conditions had changed greatly in forty years , and that ‘ the right to know ’ had in every walk of life assumed paramount importance , it seemed nevertheless unrealistic — even allowing for the vastly different scale of the conflict — for relatives of servicemen to protest at lack of information over but a few days or even hours . |
| 6 | In 1951 , for example , the Boards had been asked by the Minister to cut their spending on rural electrification , and most did so ; the South Western Board , by contrast , pressed on and a few years later were praised by the same Minister for pursuing this uneconomic development . |
| 7 | And most of those who do will only try it once or a few times . |
| 8 | Smoke billowed out and a few snowflakes fluttered into the car . |
| 9 | As I watched , one of the engines cut out and a few seconds later I heard and saw the explosion , two or three streets away . |
| 10 | A few fought back and a few folks died , |
| 11 | Four years and two months ago or a few months but the gas man sort of found it dangerous . |
| 12 | I could train birds on the bitter bead , shock them , either immediately or a few minutes after training , and compare the biochemistry in the birds which had tasted the bead but forgotten the association with that in the birds which had tasted and remembered the bead . |
| 13 | The only difference between Tina Turner today and a few years ago is her material . |
| 14 | The basic rules are : vacuum your carpet regularly ; treat stains immediately and every few months give your carpet a really good clean . |
| 15 | A a server here and a few clients there networking in between and the systems may have been relatively small in terms of their total hardware capacity . |
| 16 | A quarter of an inch in the waist here and a few millimetres on a horn there is often the extent of it . |
| 17 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 18 | and roast puddings , roast tikka twice and a few extras . |
| 19 | On this day , early in 1940 , the hut was still there and a few deckchairs , but that was about all . |
| 20 | Yeah , that 's , that 's when it 's hard she asks you the same thing again and again and a few minutes later , then half an hour later , then , then you think have you listened |