Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spend a few moments establishing a slow and regular breathing pattern . |
| 2 | Brewing up was easy — all that had to be done was to shift a few boulders to reach a hot spot lower down , and pop a billy-can of snow into the hole . |
| 3 | A few families followed a particular trade for a few generations , however . |
| 4 | It turned out that she lived in some place called Romford and as she was due to take me back there the day after the funeral I had only been left with a few hours to make a decision . |
| 5 | In July 1980 , AMES staged its first public demonstration , when the El Calvario church was occupied for a few hours to demand a reduction in the price of basic food stuffs . |
| 6 | Later on you can turn the small pit into a muddy puddle for the odd water lily , and contemplate , while scratching mosquito bites , whether the building of a few sandcastles justified a hole in the patio or the loss of a dream border to that safe , but monotonous , area of lawn . |
| 7 | After a previous band split up Dermot and a few mates recorded a track for a US compilation CD , called themselves Blink and thought no more about it . |
| 8 | Listed below are a few reasons to bake a potato . |
| 9 | Only a few demos have a specific product in mind — most are just like these … |
| 10 | So apart from a few minutes to snatch a bite to eat , he was seldom off the helm . |
| 11 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 12 | It would take only a few minutes to open a door , search out the riding boots and pour a little mercury over each spur . ’ |
| 13 | So this evening , as we come to the end of one year and prepare for the next , can we spend a few minutes doing a spiritual work-out and look at the consequences of what John wrote about the uniqueness of Jesus . |
| 14 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 15 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 16 | Harry Williams ' home-bred flyer has attracted tremendous ante-post support at odds of 100–1 and now the bookmakers have dramatically cut the price to 50–1 , with a few layers offering a more generous 66–1 . |
| 17 | Rains and Daine had owned a piece of Kirk Douglas , a promising young heavyweight whose career had been ended by a ‘ cerebral haemorrhage ’ in the ring , just in time for Kruger and a few others to collect a parcel by betting against him . |
| 18 | ‘ The pretense that the constant repetition of a few words constitutes a story becomes an insult to the child 's intelligence ’ ( ibid , p.221 ) . |
| 19 | A mixture of something old and something new , everybody here at Club has his or her own favourite , and we 've also asked a few personalities to say a few words about their number 1 trip . |
| 20 | Quite a few hangars have a tendency to rain inside in the morning as frozen condensation melts and you might want to consider strategically placing silica gel bags inside . |
| 21 | These correlations arise because a normal mode , although formally involving the whole molecule , may actually involve significant motions of only a few atoms constituting a discrete group , and hence have a frequency primarily determined by the group and only slightly affected by the nature of the rest of the molecule . |
| 22 | At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’ |
| 23 | Only a few lakes show a second , late-season peak of production . |
| 24 | The second is a slick operator , who studies his victim 's habits for a few days to establish a safe crime time . |
| 25 | I was initially concerned about weatherproofing , as tongue and groove timber has no overlap ( unlike shiplap or featheredge ) , and being secondhand had a good few nail holes , but apart from a few boards showing a bit of damp , it has proved satisfactory . |
| 26 | But a few patients have a deficit in the process of healing which could lead to catastrophic effects . |
| 27 | He left for a few years to manage a national school , independent of the British system , but returned to read law . |
| 28 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 29 | In a complex web of mystifying deals , Hibs were held together by a financial structure which in the space of a few years involved a local bookmaker , an English based company with extensive leisure interests in the west country and a company registered in Panama called Charcoal Holdings . |
| 30 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |