Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 2 | After she had scattered the last few blooms , she went and gave the girl a five pound note , Ulster Bank pounds , not punts . |
| 3 | You 'll need come a good few times and give it three four six months . |
| 4 | Paid holidays , more affluence and cheaper travel have turned the last few decades into an era of travel . |
| 5 | Those people who have kindly attended the last few forums will have noticed the dearth of students for whom the event was organised . |
| 6 | And why raise the subject now , just when she wanted to get back to her own office to quell the bewildering inner turbulence which had disturbed the past few minutes ? |
| 7 | I must have missed the next few sentences . |
| 8 | For a moment , Folly was taken aback , but then she realised that the policeman had probably only seen the last few seconds of their little drama . |
| 9 | People whove seen the previous few matches all seemed to agree Rocky faded badly and as a result was exposing Kelly a little too much . |
| 10 | But we 've noticed the last few times it 's all Jacqueline now . |
| 11 | You were John Mayall 's longest-serving side man , and must have seen a good few guitarists and drummers come and go … |
| 12 | She was not afraid of the dark , because when she was very little Maggie had had the last few scales of Fenna 's tail to suck on while she fell asleep . |
| 13 | It has leaped the last few leagues in one bound ( great stuff ) , and lands smack BANG on the Cathedral roof ( or thereabouts ) . |
| 14 | " Ah 've got a nice few cases for ye to see today . |
| 15 | Oh yeah we 've got a good few mushrooms there . |
| 16 | I 've had a good few warming-pans in my bed over the years . |
| 17 | You 've had a hectic few weeks , and the pace is not going to let up now . |
| 18 | Markets have had a bad few weeks , but if the City gets upset about the outcome of the election , or the currency markets react strongly , there could be more pain in store . |
| 19 | Henry Tyler had had an unexpected few days ' leave and had descended on his married sister and her husband in the small market town of Berebury in Calleshire without a great deal of warning . |
| 20 | ‘ Not exactly the Spaniard who blighted my life , but he looked like he 'd blighted a good few others . ’ |
| 21 | Having spent the last few minutes in preparation for the strain of an interview with Davout , Thiercelin almost visibly relaxed . |
| 22 | With his long arms , thick eyebrows and perpetual five o'clock shadow , Hughes has spent the last few years translating these daily drunken ramblings into a series of highly successful stage shows that have smoothed the way for his successful transition to our television screens . |
| 23 | We refer , of course , not to vast numbers of physically appealing American females , but to the stunning vistas of the Norfolk coast , which Richard Denyer has spent the last few years painstakingly photographing |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't even know what they 'd talk about ; a member of the factory-owning Scottish gentry and a second mate — or whatever Lachy is these days — who 's spent the last few years in Oz . |
| 25 | He 'd spent the last few days bouncing from resort to resort . |
| 26 | Mr Rushdie has spent the last few months in Helsinki , Finland , completing a new book . |
| 27 | So you 've spent the last few months diplomatically ‘ losing ’ at golf . |
| 28 | USL and SunSoft have spent the last few months working out the commercial implications of the ABI on delivery schedules and compatibility issues . |
| 29 | A quiet , bespectacled and sceptical American , Robert Morris , has spent the last few terms testing ‘ respondents ’ ( the academics prefer this term to psychic , witch-doctor , shaman or whoever else they are analysing ) . |
| 30 | He had spent the past few months noting down all the sightings and rumours of the Bookman 's movements . |