Example sentences of "say a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In certain entries th tha which I 'll come to shortly , do use extra memory , er , just say a few things about er , the one , three of these , three of the Windows products , which er , one of you is using , erm , it uses memory slightly differently , er , if I put an entry in row one , and a ro and an entry on row five one two , then yes , it er uses memory for that whole range there .
2 mimics them and that , oh I hate that , I hate that as I say a few times I thought to myself I do not like
3 But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again .
4 Properties they say a few years ago are down by 25 to 30% , that with lower mortgage rates gives them a tremendous boost .
5 For the past six years , however , she had done little more than declare things open , or say a few words of thanks in public .
6 And then expand on it , and so I go into each of these and I go to the and I say a few words about each of these particular themes .
7 He says a few inches either way and he would have been killed .
8 He says a few lordships are cursing his name because it ca n't be helping them to survive .
9 He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls !
10 If we 'd known we would of said a few things
11 Is that what you 're talking about now when you 're saying about the about erm you did n't know what to About being frightened you 've said a few times .
12 I think she may even have said a few words to it .
13 Well I 've said a few words about the Soviet Union but I would like to add that our programme of assistance to the Soviet Union and to other countries in central and Eastern Europe , while it 's had to grow rapidly in response to the urgent needs of reg region , it does not it has not grown and will not grow in any way er which will undermine our commitment to the developing world and er perhaps on that note I might turn to Africa .
14 Now I know as I was saying a few moments ago , I travelled to the continent just recently , and I know we had to pay a surcharge on the flight .
15 But if we behave normally like saying a few words to each other , the supervisors start shouting and harassing us .
16 We will usually be treating individual instructions or groups of instructions in terms of the facilities that they control , so it is worth saying a few words here about the instruction set as a whole .
17 John Ashenden , seated alone in the front nearside seat , debated with himself about reaching for the microphone and saying a few words about Somerville College , the Radcliffe Infirmary , the Tower of the Winds , the large , late nineteenth-century redbrick residences , St Edward 's School …
18 I sat , dozed , slurped from the wineskin , said a few prayers and kept my eyes fastened on the Lady Chapel .
19 She was holding my fob watch and she said a few things about this , and about us and about dead people and
20 My the boss said a few things under his breath , came down the steps and we went back into the van .
21 He said a few sentences in German towards the end . ’
22 I said a few moments ago that I would not exclude consideration or the need for consideration of the greenbelt purposes served .
23 I am sure that the Minister will recall that I said a few moments ago that in our view the role of regional government is not delivery of services .
24 And als , erm and on them three services is what we said a few moments ago , they got the choice of three different options .
25 American Ed Webster , one of the Buxton speakers , said a few days after visiting the Roaches that he had never seen so many climbers at a cliff .
26 Oh she said a few days ago about some bungalow or something he 's he 's helping to build .
27 They 'd had a , he had to give evidence he said , you know because , I mean he said a few days previously so they , financial problems as loaded as the family are nobody come to the rescue !
28 Indeed , I agree entirely with what the Leader of the Opposition said a few years ago , that ’ proportional representation is fundamentally counter-democratic in any case . ’
29 ‘ I only had a tiny part in Coriolanus , ’ he said a few years later , ‘ but it was the most exciting experience I 've ever had in the theatre . ’
30 And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox .
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