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

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1 LABOUR 'S Nigel Griffiths checked out claims of computer game rip-offs yesterday by going a few rounds with Sega 's Sonic The Hedgehog .
2 ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said .
3 but I hope however that he will be willing to go a few steps further .
4 There has been so much interest in the industrial side , while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’
5 There has been so much interest in the industrial side while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’
6 ‘ We went a few rounds when I was big enough to stand up to him . ’
7 The one hundred and sixty strong Pioneers left R A F Brize Norton early this afternoon ; they 'll be joining Major Colin Code who went a few days ago .
8 His eyes went a few degrees cooler .
9 We also went a few nights later to Stavanger , and I do believe that my bomb-aimer at least claimed he saw , through broken cloud , what he took to be hangars on the airfield at Stavanger and these were bombed .
10 Led by Major Ronnie Tod , 30 men went ashore and had hardly been gone a few minutes when Dudley Clarke and the commander saw the dark outline of a boat coming in from the sea .
11 Anyway , he was gone a few minutes , and he came back smelling — you know .
12 We 've gone a few rounds and we 're still good friends .
13 I had gone a few paces when there was a loud crashing explosion behind me .
14 BT has gone a few steps further , and begun trials of its own telephone robot , capable of handling many of the routine tasks usually dealt with by its 25,000 human operators .
15 We had only gone a few steps when a voice called out from across the street .
16 I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being .
17 The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground .
18 Then before I had gone a few yards I felt a tug on my back .
19 He says , go a few times
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