Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [Wh adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few cases where we know how a girl entered the trade show a mixture of influences . |
| 2 | There are also a few cases where we can roughly predict the location of a particular error . |
| 3 | The political activity of women is limited and , in the few cases where they do achieve positions of some power , these positions are often linked to the traditional female role . |
| 4 | However , in the few cases where it does occur , this type of update pattern makes timing calculations relatively easy . |
| 5 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 6 | On several of the meres I fish I can tell to within a few minutes when I will get bites . |
| 7 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 9 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 10 | Up to , you know , few hours where we 've been together , he 'll actually be prepared or at least to the rest of us , who the hell he 's talking about . |
| 11 | There were so few homes where she could relax and , without talking about the hidden things , not be consciously hiding them . |
| 12 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 13 | She had taken a very few steps when she heard someone running up behind her . |
| 14 | As Betty talked about the rain of the previous days the builder spoke briefly of water tables ; as she deplored the unemployment in the principality he gave a succinct resumé of the economic situation ; as , somewhat at a loss , she praised the sun for now shining , Emyr described in a few words how it would eventually burn itself out . |
| 15 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 16 | I 've taken over the last few months when we 've done our sales training here , talking to certainly on advanced sales skills courses and so on , I 've tried to bring an air of realism to their world . |
| 17 | Yeah if Now but th if I 've understood you correctly , there 's going to be a few months when we do n't actually supply anything . |
| 18 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 19 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 20 | It is certain the board would prefer to see Mr Weir re-elected as it tries to keep a united front over the next few months when it has to produce new proposals for its future which are acceptable to the Scottish Office and the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 21 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 22 | In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo . |
| 23 | She caused a few titters when she said she 'd held the court in the church for the convenience of all parties . |
| 24 | ‘ I always pop into the Prince of Wales for a few bevvies when I leave here , so does Fred . |
| 25 | Gradual encroachment by landowners stealing a few feet whenever they cultivated adjacent fields had severely reduced the width of the original ‘ cordons sanitaire ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ We went a few rounds when I was big enough to stand up to him . ’ |
| 27 | Glen Campbell used a similar approach on a few tracks when he did the sessions for The Everlys ' wonderful Great Country Hits album of 1963 . |
| 28 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 29 | At the moment the price for North Sea oil is just over $18 , $4 less than average industry forecasts made during the last few years when we were building our portfolio . |
| 30 | An exception to that is the past few years when we have made significant progress . |