Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a few copies remaining of newsletter . |
| 2 | Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to . |
| 3 | It is worth spending a few minutes looking at how the waves are breaking and picking the best place and time to launch . |
| 4 | — Before you switch on , spend a few minutes thinking about what you expect the programme to be about . |
| 5 | Rain spent a few minutes sympathizing with the psychic 's frustrations and then suggested that she try Maureen again , but with a specific request for a set of keys . |
| 6 | Rachel groaned as her alarm sounded the following Monday morning and , rolling over , she flicked the button to silence it , then lay for a few minutes staring at the ceiling . |
| 7 | Mandy had shaved several years from her life , and put that she 'd spent her last few summers working as a waitress at the Banff Springs Hotel . |
| 8 | Just a few hours looking round the bastide and having a meal together . |
| 9 | It is always tempting to push on , but why not consider the pleasures of a few hours snoozing in the sun followed by a swift descent on hardening snow ? |
| 10 | It is clearly very important to make sure that at learn some of your visits are completely unhurried and timed to suit her convenience , for to many elderly people a few hours relaxing in the company of a son or daughter they love can be an oasis in the desert of their week if they live alone . |
| 11 | People very kindly took her under their wing , explained the rules , explained the dangers of unexpected holes , and then encouraged her to spend the next few hours crawling into and under wet gorse bushes . |
| 12 | The thing about Kennedy is that every time I hear he has done something outrageous I think ‘ Oh God ! ’ , but then I spend a few hours working with him and leave thinking what a good heart he has and how serious he is as a musician . |
| 13 | Even though hundreds of accountants might be interested in corporate finance , the few opportunities coming onto the market are heavily fought for . |
| 14 | This phenomenon was more marked in the three model biles with few vesicles remaining after the addition of 10 µmol/ml of lecithin . |
| 15 | Few books dealing with education for special needs have referred to governors . |
| 16 | The attacks brought increased pressure for a change in the country 's liberal asylum provisions , although the Independent of Aug. 31 reported " a few voices warning against politicians giving the impression that constitutional change will solve everything " . |
| 17 | One of the few voices crying in the wilderness was that of Farringdon member Gordon Wilson . |
| 18 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 19 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 20 | However , since there are only a few parties competing in the election and many different aspects of government on which they are offering a position , this can be only a very crude way to elicit people 's view of how much of any particular public good should be provided . |
| 21 | There were few headlights coming in the opposite direction beyond the barrier , and few travelling in his direction . |
| 22 | There were a few Commandos resting in the barn , they looked up as I entered but showed no recognition . |
| 23 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 24 | He stopped the jeep at the edge of the cornfield , and we observed that the mortar and shell fire were following the canisters as they were landing , leaving a few canisters lying on the ground not far off from where we were . |
| 25 | But in the potato channel are lumps of earth and a few stones masquerading as vegetable , and in the stone channel a few potatoes pretending to be mineral . |
| 26 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 27 | They provided many of the resources for the celebrations and allowed the students to proceed as they wished with few officials presiding over events . |
| 28 | After winning an amateur talent contest in Chicago at the age of 15 , the woman who came to be known as the Queen Of The Blues spent the next few years singing in low-life nightclubs , occasionally supplementing her meagre income by cleaning lavatories . |
| 29 | He had gone there expecting ‘ to suffer the tedium of a few years living in the backveld , in order to make some very necessary repairs to the fortunes of myself and my small family ’ but found that ‘ against all expectations I had wandered into a bewilderingly interesting , exciting and varied World ’ . |
| 30 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |