Example sentences of "few word " in BNC.
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| 1 | His note consisted of a few words , impersonal , noncommittal , on a tiny scrap of paper written with a burned matchstick . |
| 2 | A few words can be said by a relative or friend , or , if there is no wish for a religious ceremony , a non-religious one can be planned . |
| 3 | Botha , meanwhile , signed off with a few words of advice for the Welsh : ‘ They are going berserk about nothing and it might be time for the WRU to concentrate on their own rugby . ’ |
| 4 | Whether or not this is so , few would deny that Abbado is a sound choice , a man of few words who nevertheless commands great respect among orchestral players and is as highly praised for his Rossini as for his Mahler , his Mozart or his Brian Ferneyhough . |
| 5 | Nikita Sergeyevich asked to be allowed to say a few words to the Central Committee plenum that would be held immediately afterwards . |
| 6 | As another explained , ‘ To most people a family row is Mummy and Daddy having a few words ’ , but when police are called to a domestic dispute in some areas of Belfast , |
| 7 | We both started to laugh as I had the last few words on the subject . |
| 8 | The few words posted to the tree informed everyone that Lovat had been badly wounded and was now in hospital somewhere in England . |
| 9 | Later , people would come along , dig him up and remove him to a more permanent resting place where the vicar would say a few words and it would all be over , except for those who remembered him . |
| 10 | After a few words with her husband she shook hands with me , kissed him on both cheeks , and then quickly disappeared down the cellar , leaving the two of us to finish off the champagne and burgundy . |
| 11 | We stop the jeep for a few words with the Marines , some I recognise from a few weeks ago when they were on their way to take up positions on the coast , on the left of 1st Commando Brigade . |
| 12 | A few words of Czech or Slovak learned beforehand will certainly be a great help and in the cities German is often understood . |
| 13 | With or without management , Gatfield has a few words of warning for up-and-coming hopefuls determined to make an impression on record company A&R people . |
| 14 | But if we behave normally like saying a few words to each other , the supervisors start shouting and harassing us . |
| 15 | Mrs. Wexford was a woman of few words . |
| 16 | Sister Agnesey leads me to the bed on which lies Maria Frantzia , the old man 's wife ; she smiles and we exchange a few words . |
| 17 | Charles could not , but sent a message instead ; not the tame few words that Woodward had drafted for him , but something much more forthright : |
| 18 | The occasion was the annual dinner of the Corporation of London 's planning and Communication Committee at the Mansion House , when Charles seized the opportunity to say a few words about the plans for the redevelopment of Paternoster Square . |
| 19 | For the past six years , however , she had done little more than declare things open , or say a few words of thanks in public . |
| 20 | A third says : ‘ I love to read a few words of the Gospel , so that I can see Christ and listen to what He is saying to me . ’ |
| 21 | He managed to have another few words with Mrs Morgan also , who was looking much stronger . |
| 22 | I remember years ago being amused when a young man given to very few words came to our vicarage and burst in with the news : ‘ Jane had a baby boy this morning ! ’ still with his bedroom slippers on . |
| 23 | But , before doing so , he asked the Prime Minister if she wished to say a few words . |
| 24 | After exchanging a few words , the usher opened the door and Mark was escorted into a debating chamber shaped in the form of a horseshoe , with a raised dais at the open end upon which were two heavy oak chairs , one for the Chairman and the other for the speaker . |
| 25 | The feel of them brought him back into the attic room , to the confusion that made a few words on a piece of paper into a lifeline . |
| 26 | The journey is a long one , but it is hurried over in a few words . |
| 27 | A tap on each shoulder , the laying on of a sash , a perfunctory smile , a few words , and it is over . |
| 28 | This we may express , indeed , in a few words , but it should influence us throughout all our treatment of horses ; for a horse will more readily take the bit , if , when he has taken it , something pleasant results to himself ; and he will leap across ditches , and jump over obstacles , and comply with our wishes in all other respects , if he looks forward , when he has done what is required of him , to some indulgence . |
| 29 | He had a genius for explaining a work of art in a very few words . |
| 30 | Neither speaks French or German but one has a few words of English , so he sits in the front . |