Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can find out before anyone else who it is that 's in trouble over rates or who 's in debt or who 's emigrating , so that you can get in first and grab their paltry few acres . |
| 2 | For anyone building their first few projects the best advice is to avoid any mains powered project . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'll see Gerry while he 's still a baby anyway , although he 's missed his first few months , ’ she said . |
| 4 | How she had a close friend at school who slept with men from the age of sixteen ; how she first went to France with this friend ; how she hated her first few terms at university ; how she went through a wild phase of drunken parties and desperate affairs ; how she plays the spinet late at night , when no one can hear , and fills the tired darkness with thin plunking antique counterpoint . |
| 5 | How can a dealer spend his last few weeks in his present firm most productively ? |
| 6 | He enjoyed his final few months at school and even returned after Christmas to visit and to say hello to members of staff . |
| 7 | And it 's also you know your first few days you sort of you , you become a leech do n't you to the person that you know , you know the person sitting next to you . |
| 8 | Public spending was being reined back and the Cabinet was getting down to the series of bruising public-spending battles which characterized our first few years of office . |
| 9 | ENGLAND face a final trial by spin as their winter tour enters its last few days . |
| 10 | Mrs Leinen is spending her last few days with the children taking them for trips , including to London Zoo and the seaside . |
| 11 | Mandy had shaved several years from her life , and put that she 'd spent her last few summers working as a waitress at the Banff Springs Hotel . |
| 12 | As the train leaves , with an unnatural casualness they will separate with never so much as a pressure of the hand ; others there are who , oblivious of the world around them , stand gazing into each other 's eyes , spending their last few moments clasped in each other 's arms — matching a succession of last kisses — to separate with a look of bewildered agony on their faces . |
| 13 | Even period furniture is available through this means — we furnished our first few places in ‘ early poverty ’ . |
| 14 | After a dazzling spell at the Beaux Arts school in Paris , Nouvel got his first few jobs building private houses . |
| 15 | While other holidaymakers end up changing their last few pesetas and returning to bills on the doormat , bronzed Antonia was laughing all the way to her agent Max Clifford . |
| 16 | They live their first few months in the river , then migrate downstream to the sea ; they spend two or three years in feeding and growing out at sea , during which they cover thousands of miles ; and when mature , they migrate back to exactly the same river , and same tributary , as they were born in . |
| 17 | Although she will in fact serve her last few shifts at the new community hospital at Treloar 's , it was her wish to hold her retirement party at Alton General Hospital before it closed . |
| 18 | Dawn can be hectic during lambing ; the warmth of the day helps the new-born lamb survive its first few hours and staff work round the clock in case something goes wrong . |
| 19 | After his release from prison , Wilde went to spend his final few years in France . |
| 20 | I knew of that from him before he left , for he was going to spend his last few days before the flight actually on the site , refreshing his memory on certain details . |
| 21 | Recently Mrs Thatcher , working on her memoirs , was trying to reconstruct her first few days in Downing Street in 1979 . |
| 22 | Below , in the shop , Sushi was working normally , unaware of the finality with which her partner was planning her last few hours in England . |