Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , in an effort to once and for all give you the facts on why we 're Fun Factor Number 1 , we 've called in a few experts to run through the complete bizzo . |
| 2 | He did have er when he opened , of course , he was one of the few houses to have in Lancaster to have Boddy did n't they ? |
| 3 | I 've made a few attempts to try to potty train her without any success . |
| 4 | As usual , it needs an add-in , but at least you get a few icons to play with |
| 5 | It took Beth only a few minutes to put on her bonnet and best shawl while Peggy dressed the boy for outdoors . |
| 6 | Naylor did not keep her waiting , but rang her doorbell with a few minutes to go before eleven . |
| 7 | And to be fair to you I 'm again going to give you a few minutes to talk about that , not quite as long as the other time , then I 'll ask you to jot a couple of things down as well as , so I 'm just telling you in advance . |
| 8 | as if that was n't enough , Patrick Eggle himself telephoned within a few minutes to confer on the requested changes . |
| 9 | As we draw near to the table in the course of the nest few minutes to meet with our Lord , in the bread and in the wine , let's just remember today that the power , that the energy , that the spiritual renewal comes to us because God is with us and God is with us now , because of the activity of God the Holy Spirit . |
| 10 | Vaquero offers the city-bound reader a few minutes to escape to a time and place that we are losing ’ . |
| 11 | Please could I ask you to find a few minutes to write to the Secretary of State for Wales , Welsh Office , Cathays Park , Cardiff CF1 3NQ , urging him to persuade his cabinet colleagues of the importance of finding time for an Environment Bill which includes these measures . |
| 12 | It took only a few minutes to run to the kitchen and request Agnes Diggory to take Lady Merchiston 's luncheon tray straight upstairs when it was ready , and then Theda passed out of the house into the early warmth of a sunny April day , Hector charging ahead . |
| 13 | The English church was thus an essentially Erastian church , and by 1500 the English crown had few reasons to complain about the otherwise privileged position that it had acquired within the realm . |
| 14 | Page 29 Sterling slumps : The pound posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost six pfennigs in a few hours to close at DM2.9737 . |
| 15 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 16 | Innsbruck , the famous Olympic ski resort is another excursion where you have a fascinating guided coach tour of the city followed by a few hours to explore for yourselves . |
| 17 | In my early career , I set out to meet the demands of my peers and fulfil the necessary qualifications for assessment as a ‘ real polis ’ ; although there were few opportunities to flirt with any real forms of marginality ! |
| 18 | Not so long ago , a haulage company would send its drivers out into the world with few opportunities to communicate with then until they returned . |
| 19 | With so many players forced to defend , Everton found few opportunities to attack in any strength . |
| 20 | Gas between the galaxies contains too few baryons to account for all the apparent mass but too many to be consistent with the simplest Big Bang models . |
| 21 | ‘ Sir — You are an Anti-Reformer — and therefore we have a few words to say to you — When the news reached Glasgow of the defeat of the Reform Bill , did you attend the Royal Exchange Rooms ? |
| 22 | Lady Grubb had fallen easily into the habit of behaving to her children as if she were some doggedly snobbish godmother , inviting them home every few months to look into their marriage prospects and treating the occasion as if it were a country weekend that put her to a lot of trouble , though her house was actually in the middle of London and fully staffed with unhappy au-pair girls . |
| 23 | Outside number 1015 the rest of the world came and went , while the porch door swung open and shut even more frequently , as the October wind strengthened , forcing the few passers-by to bend into what was now turning into a gale and to clutch at their hats . |
| 24 | Here are a few remedies to help with some of the more commonly encountered problems during breast feeding . |
| 25 | In the whole sorry saga , West Bromwich Albion were one of the few parties to emerge with dignity . |
| 26 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
| 27 | The assemblymen have precious few functions to perform for their $4,000-a-month salaries and free board and lodging ; they merely meet every six years to elect a new president and vice-president . |
| 28 | And there 's few gamekeepers to bother with . |
| 29 | Finally , since 1989 , DGX has granted a few scholarships to specialise in restoration and conservation . |
| 30 | A few archives to look into . |