Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had enough tins in the larder to see them through a few days at least . |
| 2 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 3 | Maybe someone bold enough to improvise like that would even take the risk of getting himself really knocked out and dropped in the water , knowing I could n't fail to find him in a few minutes . ’ |
| 4 | Going it alone in difficult times is not to be recommended , but if you wish to try it for a few weeks then there is no harm done , simply time lost if you are unsuccessful . |
| 5 | As I cleaned the little beauty and mounted it in my new display case , I promised myself that I would do everything possible to provide it with a few companions in the months that followed . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course I 'd like to see you with a few sheep , my lass , sheep being so close to my heart . |
| 7 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 8 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 9 | Also their directors wont really be able to sack him for a few years . |
| 10 | ‘ It is odd that they said so many things to identify themselves within a few short sentences . ’ |
| 11 | It 's as hard to do justice to the beauty of the Eternal City in a few words as it is to see everything in a few days . |
| 12 | There are four key ideas in that sentence , and I want to underline them for a few more minutes . |
| 13 | Now anyone with a spreadsheet should be able to do them in a few hours . |
| 14 | This is how to do it with a few extra explanations to help you understand why you are making the movements — realising why levers move often helps to set the method in the mind . |
| 15 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 16 | No , I mean , there 's nothing to stop him arresting more British people , or er , any nationality , come to that , and saying well , they did stray into our territory , I 'm sorry about this , but er , we ca n't have that sort of thing , you 'll have to er , come and see if I want to release them in a few months . |
| 17 | He designed and built it specially for his wife because she 'd always wanted to live by the river , but she only had time to enjoy it for a few months before she died . |
| 18 | If the imagination-free hacks at Today need any more decent ideas , I 'd be happy to supply them with a few more of our back numbers at a very reasonable rate . |
| 19 | The vessels ' hulls are completely intact , and the team hopes to raise them within a few years . |
| 20 | But we want to review it after a few months because as I say , once she 's got herself organized , it might be alright . |
| 21 | You see towards the bottom er we pose a few questions there , I 'm going to ask you in a few minutes to introduce yourselves and to say what what sort of presentations you make at the moment . |
| 22 | Gradually it became possible to stop her for a few seconds , and then to ask her to start walking again before her anxiety rose and she reared . |
| 23 | Hence , the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ turned into the ‘ Barrack Square Syndrome ’ , in which the only way to mop up money was to spend it on a few quickly and easily let contracts , like refurbishing barrack squares and military roads ! |
| 24 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 25 | Tiny children , barefoot and dirty , tried to generate enough courage to touch us for a few fils ’ . |
| 26 | See if you can get our people to introduce you to a few American officers ; broaden your mind . |
| 27 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 28 | All those below were too busy and had not time to spare to comfort him with a few minutes ' companionship . |
| 29 | An expensive all-concrete , all-dredge , work-from-both-sides approach may in certain cases have much to recommend it to a few of the more old-fashioned river managers , especially since the cutting of straight ditches involves minimum initial design and subsequent supervision , combined with maximum actual earth-moving and construction works on the ground . |