Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Swallowing hard on the disappointment , Andy spent the next few years taking even more blows on the chin . |
| 2 | Finally , when the stream dried up to a dribble , she popped the man 's wet dick in her mouth to savour the last few drops . |
| 3 | The boat floated the last few yards until it actually bumped the side of The Sandhopper . |
| 4 | Oh , let there be someone around , she prayed silently , as she made the car fly the last few metres . |
| 5 | Aenarion walked the last few leagues over the haunted plains on foot . |
| 6 | Robert Stevenson checks the first few metres of each weaving when it is removed from the loom . |
| 7 | Mark Sanders spent the next few days in his office , working late into the night to finalise the ten year European Business Plan and to summarise the massive document into a sixty minute presentation illustrated by thirty slides . |
| 8 | One can scarcely comprehend a hand-chiselled stollen being taken right through to the water — no drill holes to probe ahead and no explosives to blast the last few feet away . |
| 9 | Seb spent the next few days wrestling with very tangled emotions . |
| 10 | Catching the rays of sunshine this variety lights up the shrub border to prolong the last few days of autumn . |
| 11 | However there is psycholinguistic evidence indicating that human listeners also have problems identifying the first few words in an utterance . |
| 12 | First day for me , because I was in the farming was doing afternoon milking the first few days . |
| 13 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 14 | TI 's Sparc marketing manager Phil Campbell said the first few lots of the reconstructed chip will be coming off the line in December with volumes following sometime during the first quarter . |
| 15 | There 's an art to getting on and off the thing — most people fall the first few times . |
| 16 | The light was bad but Peter deciphered the first few lines of the left-hand page . |
| 17 | After winning an amateur talent contest in Chicago at the age of 15 , the woman who came to be known as the Queen Of The Blues spent the next few years singing in low-life nightclubs , occasionally supplementing her meagre income by cleaning lavatories . |
| 18 | Their troubled relationship with Prost notwithstanding , Honda 's successful assault on the bastions of Formula One is admirably chronicled by Christopher Hilton in Conquest of Formula One , although his somewhat hectoring style makes the first few pages something of a battle . |
| 19 | Equation is seen , for instance , when we recognize a picture of someone we know ; and qualification was at work when a cave painter added the last few touches which made his bison look more energetic and more nearly alive than the others already on the rock face . |
| 20 | Heart pounding , Polly stumbled one-handed down the companionway and dumped mugs , flask , and the plate containing the last few sandwiches in the nearer sink . |
| 21 | Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum . |
| 22 | Leith spent the next few minutes in a panic . |
| 23 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |
| 24 | His plate held the last few crumbs of a generous slice of pound cake . |
| 25 | Chairman Michael Hurdle said the last few months of the year to March 27 had provided some evidence of an upturn in consumer confidence and helped increase operating profits by 10.2pc to £22.5m from £20.4m last time . |
| 26 | Sigarup and Murti Lāl followed the last few through the gap , whistling long and low , a final command to stop and be still . |
| 27 | By way of contrast , Limbo is an excellent , varied VS 4c , culminating in an exciting traverse to join the last few moves of the former route . |
| 28 | As for the future , McIntosh says the next few years will be easier . |
| 29 | Thomas Telford ran the last few yards to the pump site . |