Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past six years , however , she had done little more than declare things open , or say a few words of thanks in public . |
| 2 | Hotels shelter discreetly among refreshing pine trees or beside sumptuous sandy shores , and everywhere there is an opportunity to relax , to enjoy a wide variety of watersports or to play a few rounds at the 18-hole Is Molas Golf Club . |
| 3 | But settling a potential employment dispute tends to involve rather more than just signing a letter prepared by the company or initialling a few sheets of paper which explain the agreed terms . |
| 4 | They join the Army to get guns , and they 're always in trouble for possessing one illegally or swiping a few rounds of ammunition . |
| 5 | This ‘ tri-axial ’ feature makes sawing in tight corners or taking a few millimetres off the bottom of a fitted door very easy work . |
| 6 | Most smallholders will grow enough for their own use in the vegetable garden or plant a few rows with the swedes or mangolds in their roots field . |
| 7 | Can we reasonably maintain that a woman must continue with a pregnancy in the full knowledge that she will give birth to a baby which will be either stillborn , or live a few days , even hours ? |
| 8 | The lunch hour is like a time warp — give or take a few price increases . |
| 9 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 10 | The lifetimes of DNA messages ( give or take a few mutations ) are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years ; or , in other words , ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes . |
| 11 | ‘ About 11.15 , give or take a few minutes . ’ |
| 12 | Well you always know that you know when they say twelve foot six it is n't quite right , they give or take a few inches . |
| 13 | Er and I said , Give or take a few days , and she said , Yeah . |
| 14 | Since no apprentices were taken after 1910 , and since the age at which girls normally left school and began working was fourteen ( give or take a few months ) , the youngest women in the sample were born in 1896 . |
| 15 | ‘ Give or take a few sandbanks . |
| 16 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |
| 17 | While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it . |
| 18 | Popular newspapers were able to find or invent a few examples of ‘ frivolous ’ applications for dentures or spectacles . |
| 19 | I have n't read any match report yet … so I thought I 'd have a go at a quick one & include a few comments about Rocky as well . |
| 20 | The word processing toolbar , for example , includes icons to link a table from a spreadsheet or merge a few names and addresses from the database . |
| 21 | Hurdles of metal , split oak , or wattle are very useful for quick repairs to a hedge or wall or to fold a few sheep on rape or turnips ( although they are laborious for the latter . |
| 22 | You can have a much longer list if you feel you require it , or spend a few weeks on each goal before adding another goal . |
| 23 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
| 24 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 25 | In offices with E-mail systems a fax can be copied to hundreds of different destinations without having to do more than make a few entries on the key-board . |
| 26 | All this under a Tory Government which admits its PSBR is to be double that proposed a few months ago . |
| 27 | Some day the boffins 'll make games with massive levels , innovative features , loads to see and do , much more than blasting a few planes and balloons . ’ |
| 28 | Preparing for this Assembly involves much more than booking a few halls and sending out invitations . |
| 29 | Her measures are simpler [ than Clare 's ] and she appears not to think of anything more audacious than writing a few forms skilfully and with point . |
| 30 | But she liked the money , and the new house , and the new dresses — and the six fields of apple trees and the big farm north of Stratford that came a few years later . |