Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a proud day for all of our workers and we 're looking forward to a few interesting and busy weeks with the engine . |
| 2 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 3 | I have been persuaded by the publishers to adopt the spellings on the latest maps of the Ordnance Survey and where these differ from those previously accepted have done so with reluctance , rebelling only in a few cases of change in long-familiar names . |
| 4 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 5 | yes , I should n't mind going away in a few weeks , if , if |
| 6 | In Nunn 's way of orchestrating the scene , however , the forced merriment comes across like the willed time-killing in Three Sisters , less the whiling away of a few specific minutes than the attempt to shake off a pervasive ennui . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm fine now and looking forward to getting home for a few days . |
| 8 | I was doing things I knew that I would be doing properly in a few years . |
| 9 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 10 | There is no trim , mixture , flaps , prop control or gyros to worry about , so with a final tug at the harness , one can only glare balefully at the JAP again , decide that it has kept going thus far and may therefore be relied upon to continue doing so for a few minutes longer , and prepare to commit aviation . |
| 11 | Korea 's Samsung will start doing so in a few weeks . |
| 12 | The ceremonies lasted for a month and millions attended , many coming only for a few days . |
| 13 | Nobody else was importing much beyond a few bottles of sweet red sparkling stuff from Crimea , so he had the field to himself . |
| 14 | After trudging disconsolately round a few bars , I went back to our cheap hostel , where to my relief I found Dana snoring in the double bed we were to share . |
| 15 | Building the ark was n't a matter of nipping to the DIY shop and coming home with a few boxes labelled ‘ Flatpack ark ’ . |
| 16 | However the theory behind it is sound : there is greater scope for improving performance by concentrating on the average producer than by focusing exclusively on a few " bad apples " ( Berwick 1989 ) . |
| 17 | She eschewed all requests to be interviewed about the contest on radio or television , opting instead for a few newspaper interviews with sympathetic journalists . |
| 18 | Best wishes and thanks for making the old rag worth reading again for a few years … |
| 19 | With boards travelling at up to 25 knots , the emphasis is on not falling since in a few seconds the fleet will have zoomed past and gained a huge advantage . |
| 20 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 21 | There was no rain in the darkness , and she could make even its sound go away by concentrating hard for a few moments . |
| 22 | Whether or not this small-scale self-publication works in terms of sales is less important than the extraordinary experience it can provide : that of working hard with a few other writers at making something , putting something into print . |
| 23 | Unless the heart starts beating again within a few minutes the person will die , and in fifty per cent of all fatal heart attacks the victim dies within thirty minutes . |