Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 2 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 3 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
| 4 | I 'd expected to last only a few minutes before my first ducking but the gentle wind was perfect for getting used to the moves . |
| 5 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
| 6 | He has converted quite a few to Utopianism . |
| 7 | This book has discussed only a few of the innovations we shall have to assess in the next five years or so . |
| 8 | In the twilight the water , gushing and frothing , looked a long way down but the sound it made felt only a few feet below . |
| 9 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 10 | ‘ I hope to meet quite a few of them , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 11 | If this is the case , we would expect to find only a few of the many polymorphisms readily interpretable as responsive to present proximal selective forces . |
| 12 | But he said all he did was people he 'd met quite a few times now , they say that you know like cos he 's very funny , he comes out with me , god Sally what 's the matter with you , you 've been drinking or something , I said no , that 's how he is he 's not |
| 13 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 14 | Of course , if I 'd waited just a few months , I could have had anyone I liked . |
| 15 | A visit to Salcey is all the more rewarding and exciting if you manage to see even a few of its shy inhabitants . |
| 16 | Little mini and run it for a year , run the engine ru non stop for a year and it 's going to use quite a few gallons . |
| 17 | You will find it much easier if you can bring yourself to take the very positive attitude that today the two of you are going to share just a few hours of life together : time that can never come again . |
| 18 | The Office for Fine Arts intends to keep only a few of the better works for itself . |
| 19 | Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days . |
| 20 | At first his visit was intended to last only a few days . |
| 21 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
| 22 | He had been expecting to sell quite a few additional copies of it to those customers of his who appreciated such things . |
| 23 | A Mr Carey ( with his girlfriend ) began squatting there a few months later , and offered to pay rent which amounted to an acknowledgement of title , but this was refused . |
| 24 | Heinrich and Martha walked through this world , which was fated to last only a few years before the spell was broken , like a prince and princess . |
| 25 | The relative importance of strip buildings in the urban plan has already been discussed ( p. 27 ) , and here it will suffice to mention only a few general examples . |
| 26 | You t you said about morale being , but why , and the , having met quite a few tenants from the flats , who in terms of individuals that have come in here , you know , to , to seek advice . |
| 27 | Cabs were hard to come by , and after ten minutes of waiting in line beneath the hotel canopy he decided to walk uptown a few blocks and catch a passing cab if he got lucky . |
| 28 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Am I alone in detecting a falling away of accuracy — a sloppiness in dealing with facts and quotations which editors would not have tolerated even a few years ago ? ’ |
| 30 | There 's tennis , windsurfing , volleyball and snorkelling to name just a few of the activities . |