Example sentences of "not [verb] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided there 's access to the plane and the fuselage is not crushed a few minutes should tell us all we want to know . |
| 2 | Clearly , the hon. Gentleman was not listening a few moments ago when I quoted directly the Governor of the Bank of England saying that the conditions necessary to underpin a sustained recovery are now in place . |
| 3 | And anyhow , Cara would probably not have lasted more than two minutes in her job in the journalistic field had she not grown a few hard edges . |
| 4 | The production should achieve an improved balance between pit and stage during its three-night run , but one wonders if three consecutive nights might not overtax a few vocal chords by Sunday morning . |
| 5 | ‘ I would not mind a few more so I could do more work at the Exchange . |
| 6 | ( And yet I remember one morning — when confronted by a preliminary plate of very sour , very cold slices of orange I could not stop a few tears trickling miserably down my cheeks — a gruff voice coming from the other end of the table . |
| 7 | Then , as she had so many , she would not miss a few , he had the thought to sail them out the window . |
| 8 | So far everything had gone our way , but it was hard to believe that the wily old campaigner would not have a few more tricks up his sleeve . |
| 9 | When she tried to explain that she would now have to live on five shillings a week , she could not restrain a few tears . |
| 10 | He seems not to have whined , and his only complaint , posthumously recorded by Bunting in his obituary of Pound , is drily judicious : he ‘ said in the Thirties that Eliot had got stuck because he could not understand Propertius [ i.e. Pound 's Homage ] and ill the rest had not stuck a few books earlier still ’ . |
| 11 | Why not set a few moments aside first thing in the morning and last thing at night ? |
| 12 | And let's not forget a few failed attempts at making it in the movies along the way . |
| 13 | It is better to learn that the candidate can not put a few words together before he/she joins the company rather than after he/she is employed . |
| 14 | I 'm not saying you may not lose a few good people but on balance it 's worth that sacrifice rather than pursue an enforced redundancy policy . |
| 15 | This did not reflect a few well-organized sectors and a larger number of unorganized ones as was the case in the United States , for example , where the average level of unionization was similar . |
| 16 | Although barbel are so stupid when they are feeding ravenously , they are not so stupid they can not learn a few tricks of their own to enable them to feed in the face of apparent danger . |