Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 2 | ‘ Until we can get enough food through to stop people starving to death , you wo n't be able to stop those who are prepared to kill for the few precious supplies , ’ said Julian . |
| 3 | Unfortunately I ca n't imagine any chairman introducing measures that would make it harder for him to flog of a few prised assets in order to raise some hard cash . |
| 4 | With hindsight , it would have better still to lock in a few more gains . |
| 5 | After I 'd persuaded Hawkbit here to join us , I was just starting to talk to a few more , when I found that Toadflax fellow had followed me down the run . |
| 6 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |
| 7 | One thing is clear : Islam flourishes like a hardy plant wherever it springs up , and a tradition that has endured for over 1,300 years is sure to endure for a few more . |
| 8 | He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred . |
| 9 | We had a small walled garden and oblong of grass and , though Father kept a long side bed gay with red geraniums , white marguerites and blue lobelia , capable of standing up to the odd cricket ball and the games we children were able to play in the few remaining square yards behind beggared description but we had the whole Heath beyond . |
| 10 | The kingdom of Italy , the second big new state to emerge from the wars of the mid-century , had only to deal with a few French-speaking communities and some Germans in Venetia ; it did not yet have to face a minorities problem . |
| 11 | The reluctance to invest in a few good demonstration videos may stem not only from the fact that there are indeed some very poor , amateurish productions around , but also , compared with most books , videos are still comparatively expensive . |
| 12 | The best way is to start with a few vegetarian meals a week and gradually increase the number . |
| 13 | The sex exclusive markers which do indeed occur in some languages are superficially striking , but on closer inspection they can be seen to result from a few regular and predictable rules acting on the same basic structures . |
| 14 | If we wanted an internal report er to go to a few selected clients that report would mainly be text . |
| 15 | If feeding and antibiotics continued to be administered Tony could be expected to live for a few more years . |
| 16 | I 'd like to end with a few more general questions about you and your leisure time . |
| 17 | All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century , shortly before Richard 's birth . |
| 18 | Some of them not as high as the non-metals but most of have got to get to a few hundred degrees C before they start . |
| 19 | It 's also somewhat perverse to complain about a few innocent posts when the top of Ben Nevis is a lofty scrapyard . |
| 20 | The future fate of the Universe is not one of humanity 's more pressing problems : on this scale nothing drastic is likely to happen for a few hundred billion years yet . |
| 21 | Moreover , expeditions tend to congregate in a few favoured areas which provide rapid access to peaks as well as adequate water supplies and shelter from natural hazards like avalanches . |
| 22 | You should n't have to remove the power supply unit or unplug any cables to slot in a few extra megabytes of RAM . |