Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The instructions for folding a piece of paper involve only a few operations like folding and unfolding . |
2 | These arc just a few examples . |
3 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
4 | Your recollections will no doubt revive a lot of memories for many of our older readers and provide quite a few talking points for younger ones . |
5 | I normally lose just a few pounds , Bobby . |
6 | The pictures show just a few shapes of wagon . |
7 | The tattoo was a moment 's impulse and cost just a few pounds , but now it 's taking up the time and resources of the NHS . |
8 | Wait here a few days , then Newman will contact you , again providing he agrees . |
9 | put quite a few lines in there |
10 | → We receive quite a few letters from people who have suffered from the indifferent attitude which seems to prevail in many music shops . |
11 | The remaining seven months of Minutes up to January 1909 , when the 11 years silence started , give quite a few insights into the growing pains of a new untried enterprise , although some club business has a familiarly contemporary ring ! |
12 | Since martial law was imposed , with army checkposts everywhere , and a heavy plainclothes police presence , protests last only a few moments . |
13 | Competitions vary but normally last only a few minutes . |
14 | Captain Dunbar 's been around now for over a year and most of Madeleine 's suitors last only a few months , so we think it 's serious . ’ |
15 | Most of these minor illnesses last only a few days or weeks : what are needed , therefore , are the measures quality of life days or quality of life weeks . |
16 | He had a little shop not much , you know just a few things and such like , in those days . |
17 | Mm that 's what I 've cos I 've not been very busy I 've been picking , you know like a few peanuts there 's chocolate peanuts , there 's |
18 | Er we just kept them on and there 's I know quite a few schemes have stopped working but we 've still got them written down somewhere |
19 | You know quite a few rules do n't you about punctuation that 's good . |
20 | Leaving them around s you know quite a few drugs . |
21 | I know quite a few people who would do that . |
22 | Just got to get to get the sentences , oh I know quite a few words |
23 | And er you ca n't really do much because of the stone walls and there 's too much window and too much noise , and you get quite a few insects in them , and they 're just generally not very nice at all . |
24 | Yes we get quite a few inquiries from south and er from enthusiasts that want stamps franking with the Samson Lane stamp . |
25 | This is due to the fact that if there is no insider dealing ‘ those who transact only a few moments apart may get very different prices and will view the market as performing unfairly ’ . |
26 | If we assume that , in the transition region , the restrictions to motion still present in the sample , allow only a few segments to move in some time interval , say 10 s , then considerably fewer will have moved if the observation time is less than 10 s . |
27 | Okay we find quite a few clothes bits of leather , shoes , stuff like that , okay . |
28 | If you fancy trying it yourself around harvest time in September , then gather together a few pounds of the bluey-black sloe berries , prick them all over with a fork , smother them in about 6oz of sugar and top up with a litre of gin . |
29 | I reckon they must 've nearly got enough for a ticket cos they ask quite a few people . |
30 | But I gather quite a few people in the industry have actually lost their jobs , have they not , and been laid off ? |