Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [adv] [art] few " in BNC.
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1 | Although it is impossible to sum up 170 years ’ service in just a few sentences , I would like to congratulate five members of Wimpey Plant and Transport staff who , between them , have given this many years of loyal service to the company . |
2 | You travel round quite a few diffent places and meet famous people and type it up on the computer , 1124 things like that . |
3 | Some of these longer spinelets end in only a few points , others are shorter more rugose with a multipointed crown . |
4 | Teenage antenatal classes exist in quite a few hospitals now , but there are not nearly enough . |
5 | Typically , councillors are part-time and serve on only a few committees . |
6 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
7 | Take in just a few of Northern Spain 's options , and discover the Spain that the Spanish truly love . |
8 | A second useful way of dating is through overstrikes , but these occur in only a few instances . |
9 | How can I describe that experience in just a few words ? |