Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 31 | Most early red-figure appears on only a few shapes : cups , and pots like the one-piece amphora ( figs. 86–7 ) , in which much of the pot was traditionally black and the extension of that to the background of the picture was an easy step and one which integrates the picture more fully with the pot . |
| 32 | Ray Wilkins pulled in quite a few votes … 5 per cent … just above him is Ray Clemence … the top four … the heavywweights … the favourites … |
| 33 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 34 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 35 | Some of these longer spinelets end in only a few points , others are shorter more rugose with a multipointed crown . |
| 36 | Well they were noted even when cos Jim went down there a few , few times he used to have chaps running around the ground with chains and knives and all that sort of thing , but it 's in the Dockland area of London Millwall . |
| 37 | The police are also urging people who keep money at home to have it banked for safety — they want to make sure that people like phylis do n't lose cash that took years to save in just a few short seconds . |
| 38 | and I took up quite a few , thinned them out and my sister |
| 39 | Stuart and I went out together a few times . |
| 40 | ‘ We did go out together a few times , yes , Chief Inspector . |
| 41 | Unseasoned and untreated timber , very frequently used in the ‘ sixties and early ‘ seventies in windows and doors , will rot in just a few years . |
| 42 | Teenage antenatal classes exist in quite a few hospitals now , but there are not nearly enough . |
| 43 | Barrie Clarke … says it was a tough race so much mud and he got thrown off quite a few times |
| 44 | So this On on these general points like this you could pick up quite a few marks , but a lot of the questions are not that technical erm and they 're stuff that you do know . |
| 45 | When I became fully aware of this , I gave all of my fashionable new clothes to ‘ Oxfam ’ and fished out my old blue jeans and ‘ sloppy joe ’ jumper which I had nearly thrown out only a few weeks before . |
| 46 | I thought I would pick out just a few . |
| 47 | Typically , councillors are part-time and serve on only a few committees . |
| 48 | he wrote in only a few important imitative leads — bars 17–18 , 25–26 , 30–34 and 97–105 — which suggests that the composer had yet to commit the remainder to paper . |
| 49 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 50 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 51 | Still coached by Dr Pietr Labuschange , Meyer went through a rigorous training schedule over the winter months and ran in quite a few cross-country races , a new experience for her . |
| 52 | Soon they were airborne , the dragon skimming along easily a few feet from the floor and leaving a billowing cloud of dust in its wake . |
| 53 | Take in just a few of Northern Spain 's options , and discover the Spain that the Spanish truly love . |
| 54 | That was the gist of what the Air Force chief of staff said , thinking out loud a few weeks ago . |
| 55 | This not only spells out just a few of the advantages of zinc but also the name of the leading rolled zinc available in the UK |
| 56 | A second useful way of dating is through overstrikes , but these occur in only a few instances . |
| 57 | James , Alice and Alfred hurried in guiltily a few minutes later , glaring at each other for being thrust into proximity , the former carrying bread and milk for dinner , and the latter clutching a treasure trove of samphire as a peace offering . |
| 58 | How can I describe that experience in just a few words ? |
| 59 | If two of you regurgitate the notes perfectly generally in line with answering the question but then one of you brings in only a few sentences saying , well this could be accounted for with di dum di dum or , if we think about learning and er behaviourism , this has something to say about that . |
| 60 | With your inbuilt tachometer you 've no doubt clocked up quite a few since Seville . ’ |