Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn into a lightly floured board and knead gently for a few minutes . |
| 2 | Indeed , after our second stop in Bombay a few passengers gratefully chose the option of being one-armed , one-legged , one-eyed , two-headed beggars rather than having to return to their seatettes and fly somewhere for a few months with their hands on their heads . |
| 3 | 5 Return the turkey or chicken pieces to the pan and cook gently for a few minutes . |
| 4 | Add the bacon and venison and cook quickly for a few minutes , stirring frequently , to seal the meat . |
| 5 | Add the ginger , garlic and Curry Powder , fry gently for a few minutes . |
| 6 | But if we wait patiently for a few picoseconds until the charges rearrange themselves there will be no further motion and the problem belongs to the realm of electrostatics . |
| 7 | At 11.15 a.m. the 29 enthusiastic players teed off from a few tees . |
| 8 | As the name suggests , the sole purpose of the group was to have fun , and perhaps show off to a few friends . |
| 9 | Cover up for a few days , use a higher factor lotion , and take great care . |
| 10 | When a dog does start to show signs of becoming difficult about a visit to the surgery , you may want to arrange with your vet simply to walk up to the waiting room , pause here for a few moments and then return home . |
| 11 | Stop anywhere for a few minutes on a summer 's day and you are likely to end up as an unpaid extra in next year 's calendar or on a biscuit tin . |
| 12 | So the criticisms levelled against citation analysis as guide to value in science distil down into a few fragmentary points that any sensible funding body would be more than capable of bearing in mind . |
| 13 | However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea . |
| 14 | Mug up on a few details : whether they called the masters ‘ beaks ’ or ‘ dons ’ ; whether sweets were referred to as ‘ tuck ’ or ‘ sock ’ ; where you would have slept , in a ‘ house ’ or ‘ dorm ’ ; what barmy school game was played on them once a year . |
| 15 | If you stir enough of them together and stand back for a few hundred million years , the result is likely to be a chemical entity capable of reproducing itself — one of the fundamental differences between living and nonliving material . |
| 16 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 17 | just lie here for a few moments . |
| 18 | Irish rugby is notorious for peaks and troughs , so look forward to a few peaks from now onwards . |
| 19 | You 've said ‘ Fire ! ’ and seen the price of a dozen cameras blow away in a few seconds ' worth of flash and bang , with nothing left at the end to stick in the family album . |
| 20 | A burst of frequency between 10 and 10 4 Hz is expected with a duration of several cycles and an energy release of between and in gravitational waves from a star core of mass M. The mass M is expected to be similar to that of the pulsars , which average around for the few cases where measurements have been made . |
| 21 | I remember when after a few months in uniform duty , walking the beat , I was on West End Road , next to the Olympic Theatre , where there had been a building site and there was Collins World Fair there . |
| 22 | One possibility is to choose two or three at a time , as above , and then go on to a few others . |
| 23 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 24 | The opening ‘ The Basement ’ is most disturbing , Blood explaining what can happen when your parents go away for a few months and leave you with your crippled sister : ‘ It started out with spankings with the neighbour looking on/She paid her daughter 's boyfriend who would whip me all night long … ’ |
| 25 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
| 26 | Go home for a few hours . |
| 27 | You thrash around for a few minutes , trying not to breathe , but you have to inhale sometimes . ’ |
| 28 | Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull . |
| 29 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |
| 30 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |