Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I just have to read a few tabloids these days to get me going . |
| 32 | ‘ It 's serious ! ’ said Robert , ‘ and Rafiq and his boys wo n't stop at a few groans this time . |
| 33 | He said he mostly cruised now — although he had done several Fastnets and a few Ton-Cups some years ago . |
| 34 | Spend some time reading or , even better , join a class and then practise , practise , practise — just for a few minutes each day . |
| 35 | Okay , working with anybody , just just for just for a few minutes each it 's just because what I want you to experience is what it 's like to continually go over the same thing , I want you to experience that , to continually stick to your guns just experience that okay ? |
| 36 | Within a few minutes all the rigs had arrived and splashed in , and the earlier arrivals which had formed two- and three-rig rafts were crabbing across the river and pushing upstream to the bridge centreline . |
| 37 | Over the three days that Forester had been observing , his schedule had been consistent to within a few minutes either way . |
| 38 | The Alex Harvey Band came into the shop quite a few times that summer , Chris Glenn , the bass player , bought his gold lurex socks from us . |
| 39 | A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 40 | ‘ It 's just that you 've been out a few times this morning . ’ |
| 41 | Oxford United have come off the rails a few times this season . |
| 42 | rachel says she learnt to ski with Chantelle at Gloucester five years ago … she has been out to the snow a few times this season and to be good you have to be able to get out there but this slope is good … and almost like the real thing |
| 43 | Thornaby skipper Mike Priestley will be hoping he can repeat that feat for him a few times this season . |
| 44 | Well having seen Blackburn Rovers away from home a few times this season I I 've got ta say at half time I thought they 'd they 'd be comfortably in control . |
| 45 | I 've seen him play over the years er Mick , you know he 's er typical of player , we 've had him watched a few times this year , er scouts him er at Aston Villa , said he had a magnificent game . |
| 46 | A few occassions this year he 's had a go at some defender who is twice as big as him . |
| 47 | There are a large number of rare metabolic errors which are purely hereditary and account , despite their large number , for only a small percentage of total illness , and a few conditions such as fatal poisonings which are purely environmental , but in the great majority of conditions both inherited and environmental factors are involved . |
| 48 | When it 's , when the , when everything 's done and that , there 's a few things that |
| 49 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
| 50 | Our takings went up by a few shillings each week and pretty soon we had to expand and move the kitchens upstairs , where Malc 's Mom made our famous home-made pies ' . |
| 51 | We must try a few passes some time . ’ |
| 52 | Actually sitting there and saying , not realizing , a few problems that |
| 53 | We have a few problems this year . |
| 54 | I decided to put pen to paper and let you know of a few problems some of us have in trying to become machine knitters . |
| 55 | Most of these are now desolate except for the fifteenth century Church of the Pantanassa , still a convent , and a few others such as the fourteenth century Church of Evangelistria , S. Sophia , c. 1350 , and the fourteenth century Church of Peribleptos . |
| 56 | They had cost her uncle just a few cents each and were supposed to be the plates and bowls Chinese coolies ate their rice from while they sat with their rickshaws , waiting for trade , in old Pekin . |
| 57 | The working-class boy who passes the eleven-plus is likely to come from an elementary or primary , school from which only a few pupils each year penetrate the grammar-school world . |
| 58 | Of these , in West Malaysia , two species roost singly in trees and ny short distances to feed upon trees which produce a few flowers all year round , and the third , Eonycteris spelaea , roosts , in large colonies in caves and can ny up to at least 35km from them to feed and take food from a wide range of flowers scattered in space and time . |
| 59 | For those bogwarts who 're still stuck , I 've thrown in a few tips this month . |
| 60 | There was a long silence , apart from the creaking of Mr Nightingale 's chair as he swung a few degrees either way , frowning down at his desk top . |