Example sentences of "few [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
| 2 | It was true that the happy-go-lucky dockers , working for a few pennies every time a ship came in , were being watched carefully by Captain Robins on the bridge , but it all seemed rather haphazard , as though I would be lucky if I ever found all my trunks . |
| 3 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 4 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 5 | Representatives from as many relevant agencies as possible met a few times a year , and devised an agreed strategy for the inner area concerned . |
| 6 | If the children get half a dozen whacks with a slipper a few times a year , surely it 's not abuse ? |
| 7 | And yet somebody else might have three or four thousand down , and that 's because they 're jetting off to er foreign climes a few times a year . |
| 8 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 9 | Could these be used to replace some other fattier meals a few times a week ? |
| 10 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |
| 11 | a few times a week and I think it sounded like three cos she was wondering how he would cope with driving and everything . |
| 12 | The first few times the carabiniere on duty became impatient and tried to make him come out , but the only answer he got was that the prisoner was feeling extremely unwell and wanted please to be left alone . |
| 13 | I feel that this is a difficult poem to understand but when it has been read a few times the meaning becomes clear . |
| 14 | In rural areas where there are few cinemas the video centres are especially popular . |
| 15 | They would tour all over the country for wages of a few shillings a week . |
| 16 | Six kids , Dad on a few shillings a week , when he was out of work , Mam had to go out scrubbing , washing . |
| 17 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 18 | Merseyside quiet with small codling , whiting and a few dabs the mainstay . |
| 19 | In few cases a dispersal agent does deliver a seed directly to such a target other than by chance . |
| 20 | Indeed , a crucial part of the new contract between the state and single parents will be for the state to continue paying the mother ( and in a few cases the father ) the maintenance payments for as long as that person is responsible for a child . |
| 21 | In a few cases the disease undergoes a recurrent phase when the manifestations of secondary syphilis are seen again . |
| 22 | In a few cases the loan may be repaid in one lump sum at the end of its term . |
| 23 | As suggested above , one of the central planks in Lord Devlin 's argument that the law does not simply exist to protect the individual , but also to protect society , was the fact that in all but a few cases the victim may not consent to the commission of an offence against themselves . |
| 24 | This may take the form of requirements for reports , returns and information or the holding of enquiries , or in a few cases the issuing of directions , e.g. by the Secretary of State for Education to a local education authority . |
| 25 | If I feel that a particular patient is suffering from extreme tension and finds it difficult to relax , then I may suggest that , during the two weeks following the regression session , he simply practises a basic relaxation exercise for a few minutes a day . |
| 26 | ‘ Initially people think bonsai trees must be quite difficult to keep , but all it takes is a few minutes a day to see they are properly watered . |
| 27 | Every few minutes a man came in and called someone 's name . |
| 28 | Every few minutes a truck thunders down the strategic Salang Highway on its way from Hiratan on the Soviet border to Kabul . |
| 29 | Every few minutes a shell would swish over the rooftops to explode with a roar in the docks ; and more Syrian troops — nearer to the explosions and silhouetted against the sea — could be seen running beside the harbour wall . |
| 30 | In a few minutes a boy appeared . |