Example sentences of "[art] few [n mass] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was over , he was unhurt , and it had n't cost him a penny apart from the few pence in his pocket — and as the kidnapping was n't what was eating his heart out he knew he could n't pretend it was . |
| 2 | External Ba 2+ was left out so that uptake would not depolarize the cell more than a few mV from its -90mV resting potential . |
| 3 | I have seen a few salmon in my time and caught a few too but this thing was not like a salmon at all . |
| 4 | ‘ They spend their lives sewing shirts in dark attics , and their employers throw them a few pence for their pains ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I ai n't breaking no law , guvnor , I 'm just borrowing a few pence off my friend here for a drink . ’ |
| 6 | A piece of handicraft may cost just a few pence in our terms , so where is the virtue in knocking it down any further ? ’ |
| 7 | Wheel clamps are n't on the list yet , but it 's still worth asking for a few quid off your annual premium . |
| 8 | Let me tell you , when those dubbin-lickers at Whaddon go on their knees and beg me to bring my United first team squad to ‘ The Tip ’ to put a few quid in their ailing coffers , I shall take great delight in treading on Ken Mentle 's fingers , provided he survives last week 's heart attack , and raising two toes in a defiant ‘ get lost ’ gesture . |
| 9 | And I got a packet with a few quid in it that day which my mother er appreciated . |
| 10 | The three VAX servers are said to be able to cope with 1,000 transactions an hour , though so far they have been tested to only a few percent of their capacity . |
| 11 | There are always a few people for whom the most obvious sequences of technical cause and effect have no meaning . |
| 12 | ‘ I might have kicked a few people in my time , and some would say I got away with it for twenty years . |
| 13 | So I have n't been to any of those coffee mornings I 've met a few people from it . |
| 14 | Now ‘ I 've Got My Mojo Working ’ does n't go down with everyone , but at that time there were a few people around who did like that kind of stuff , and we were hopefully appealing to them . ’ |
| 15 | This hypothesis does not seem to have a lot going for it because , at the time Matthew — or whoever — was writing , there would still have been a few people around who could say something like I do n't remember any star ! ' ) |
| 16 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 17 | Someone up there must have wagered a few bob on them for another Grand Slam . |
| 18 | You should put it in your building society and then draw it out and get a few bob on it . |
| 19 | The bookies are quoting us at 40–1 and you can bet one or two of the lads have got a few bob on us at those odds . |
| 20 | P. H. Police Aided Clothing Association — chipped in a few bob from your wages . |
| 21 | KIDS with a few bob in their piggy banks can help Mum and Dad collect extra interest on the family 's savings . |