Example sentences of "[prep] even [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks .
2 But any minister of even a few years ' experience of Christian leadership will be able to tell you of Godly issues which were debated in his Church with a bitterness and rancour totally out of harmony with their subject .
3 The net result of a system which mixed young and old , debtors and criminals , men and women , first offenders and old lags indiscriminately was , inevitably , that prisoners were exploited , brutalized and deprived of even the few rights that the law allowed them .
4 So there are some new facets to catering in the RAF today compared with even a few years ago .
5 Although adults can wait for an expected reward , for example until the end of the month for their salary , pre-school children can not wait for even a few hours .
6 She was n't going to give him the satisfaction of knowing she dared not be alone with him for even a few minutes .
7 The Standing Orders of the Houses are such , however , that no mere eccentric has much chance of disturbing the parliamentary calm for even a few seconds .
8 Leave luggage unattended for even a few seconds
9 The King had settled himself into such a groove of petulant determination that there was no question of the rejection of the bargain deflecting him for even a few days .
10 If he could have evaded meeting the poor man for even a few days , this squabble over the saint 's bones would have been settled , one way or another , and Herluin would have been off on his travels , and taken Tutilo with him .
11 Christians of different denominations feel much closer together now — at the parish level — than they used to even a few years ago .
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