Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [coord] [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | Their front end has a mouth below and a few light-sensitive spots above so that the animal can be said to have the beginnings of a head . |
2 | Four years and two months ago or a few months but the gas man sort of found it dangerous . |
3 | So they climbed it together — a touch of combined tactics here and a few serious moments there . |
4 | I strode well away from the Land Rover but there were cockle shells everywhere and a few needle whelks , like minute unicorns ' horns less than half an inch long . |
5 | A quarter of an inch in the waist here and a few millimetres on a horn there is often the extent of it . |
6 | The only difference between Tina Turner today and a few years ago is her material . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | and roast puddings , roast tikka twice and a few extras . |
9 | Put your talking tapes there and a few CD-ROM products , and computer software . |
10 | ‘ Well , on Saturday night , Lee here and a few of his mates can go up the Ilford Palais , right ? |
11 | Staggering And , after earning at the staggering rate of nearly $60 a second throughout this tournament , he said : ‘ I would rather win Wimbledon again and a few thousand pounds than this tournament and all this money . ’ |
12 | There are about 156,000 black-and-whites today and a few of the Swedish animals have been exported to Finland , Greece , Spain and Portugal . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Divergence across the fault leads to subsidence and the formation of shallow , elongated troughs or sags , typically a few tens of metres across and a few hundred metres long , which , many contain a sag pond . |
15 | The thatched roof went long ago , but when I was a child the loft was still covered and Mother and Father kept a bed there and a few other necessary things . |