Example sentences of "it a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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31 | He closed it a few months after Maxwell 's paper folded — with a circulation of only about 100,000 . |
32 | All Connor did was to add a preservative to this enzyme that gave it a few months ' shelf life . |
33 | Picasso had abandoned the use of a consistent light source a year earlier only to reinstate it a few months later in the paintings done in Paris during the winter . |
34 | I bought it a few months ago and I was assured they were waterproof . ’ |
35 | Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ? |
36 | Now this P H test I 've only had it a few seconds and already look what it 's done to the paper . |
37 | They take hold of the club and give it a few waggles . |
38 | She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite . |
39 | eh brutal , er brute , er so many er only got a little bit more , eh sort of like you 've got er , I du n no , accent or something or add to it a few words , a few letters I mean , er a more I , a different accent you go to Manchester they said er different accent you go and so different one and to me from the beginning , not now , but from the beginning I was fascinate , I says why do they finish in Italian er ways , or add , you switch and them coins , erm , it still says |
40 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
41 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
42 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
43 | They also did it a few years ago with their then hottest act , Alexander O'Neal . |
44 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
45 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
46 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
47 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
48 | mm , have you had it a few years ? |