Example sentences of "[vb infin] more than a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harper 's own wife would need more than a few such compliments when he reached home , for she had been adamantly opposed to her husband travelling to Brussels . |
| 2 | Many great rivers — the Ganges and the Indus , the Amazon and the Yangtze — are so muddy that the animals swimming in them can not see more than a few inches ahead . |
| 3 | You could never expect things to last , after all , could not plan more than a few days ahead . |
| 4 | Neither did the nose drop more than a few degrees below the horizon . |
| 5 | Go on ; but do n't stay more than a few minutes . ’ |
| 6 | Do n't worry , Billy , I wo n't stay more than a few hours and by that time I 'll know one way or the other . |
| 7 | Books can be sold on their jackets to impulse buyers who may well not read more than a few pages once they have bought them . |
| 8 | It will take more than a few scandal-mongers to sink him . |
| 9 | Thinking it had taken the old baggage long enough to show some concern , and it would take more than a few mumbled words to alter things . |
| 10 | But it 'll take more than a few bruises to soften him up . |
| 11 | ‘ It 'd take more than a few facts to convince Dudley Ford that he 's mistaken ! |
| 12 | It does n't seem more than a few months since I was knitting clothes for her dolls — and now — ’ She held up her needles , speared through the left front of a pearly-white matinée jacket . |
| 13 | My son did n't live more than a few hours , but I can feel for the parents of that little girl . |
| 14 | Such large bombs are rather exceptional , though ; most are well under a metre across , and do n't travel more than a few tens of metres from the vent . |
| 15 | If only they could see me in the office now I 'd turn more than a few heads . |