Example sentences of "[vb base] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some children were sent to widowed grandmothers to live with them for company , or just sleep a few nights , like the seaman 's daughter on the Western Isles who , when all the men were away at the fishing , ‘ used to sleep with granny … bringing the water from the well and bringing in the peat , tidying up the floor and singing songs , for granny she was a very musical lady , yes she was . ’ |
| 2 | The contrast painted between the intense , vibrant , imaginative life of the child outside school ( where at the end of the day the eight-year-old collapses into deep sleep a few seconds after rushing round ‘ being a lorry ’ ) and the drab , pointless monotony of his classes is as striking as it is disturbing . |
| 3 | Is it a recent alliance , or does it stretch back a few years and involve a few other deals ? |
| 4 | Spelling correction algorithms usually suggest a few alternative words which are in some sense similar to the detected misspelled word . |
| 5 | Some products and places provide a few exceptions to this pattern , as we shall discover in the next chapter , and there were considerable , if patchy and delayed , efforts towards ‘ re-industrialization ’ ( Chapter 10 ) , which created the estimated increase of manufacturing employment across all regions of the North from 1987 to 1989 , averaging 1.4 per cent , probably arrested by 1990 . |
| 6 | It may also be useful to have a risk management consultant in for the first few meetings , if only to kick-start the process and provide a few , objective ‘ what if ? ’ questions . |
| 7 | Who can save the world now ? 99 tea of course — slip a few tea bags into his utility belt tonight , Alfred can make him a cup downstairs . |
| 8 | Send a few pages for a free quotation . |
| 9 | Expect a few small roach and skimmers on pole and squatts when after the thaw . |
| 10 | Trinity Square still proving to be very busy so expect a few minutes wait if you want to get yourself parked in there and have a couple of minutes wait if you want to get into the Victoria Centre that 's at the York Street entrance . |
| 11 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 12 | ‘ We want a few good skirmishers . ’ |
| 13 | Premier Savings is not the type of savings account for you to dip into every time you want a few pounds to spend . |
| 14 | They want a few more minutes . |
| 15 | What d' ya think if someone says they want a few words with you what d' ya think 's going to happen ? |
| 16 | We want a few less troublemakers |
| 17 | Even in the 1980s a troupe could be performing a highly individual routine in the most modern style but they only had to link arms , synchronize a few kicks and the audience would break into spontaneous applause . |
| 18 | THERE 'S a saying in the computer industry : ‘ If in doubt , press a few keys ; if that does n't work , ask a colleague ; if in deep trouble , consult the manual . ’ |
| 19 | MENTION big-time tennis venues round here and folk let you prattle on about Wimbledon , Roland Garros , Flushing Meadow and Flinders Park and then press a few claims of their own . |
| 20 | All that vanished with the invention of the printing press a few years later , but many of the books in the Corviniana were made in Italy at that time . |
| 21 | Throw some washing in , press a few buttons and try it out . |
| 22 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 23 | I 'm coming to get an office here , buy some land , build a few hotels , you know . |
| 24 | Just go give us your taxes , build a few factories . |
| 25 | For the past six years , however , she had done little more than declare things open , or say a few words of thanks in public . |
| 26 | Er when I say a few , about twenty perhaps , thirty , and er , of course , it was then me brother got the order for the canteen as well see . |
| 27 | But it was as I got into my teenaged years I began to get bored with my walk on roles , sitting around for hours waiting to go on with make-up and costumes on was no fun any more , but I was far too young to do anything else but walk on say a few lines and walk off again . |
| 28 | In certain entries th tha which I 'll come to shortly , do use extra memory , er , just say a few things about er , the one , three of these , three of the Windows products , which er , one of you is using , erm , it uses memory slightly differently , er , if I put an entry in row one , and a ro and an entry on row five one two , then yes , it er uses memory for that whole range there . |
| 29 | And then expand on it , and so I go into each of these and I go to the and I say a few words about each of these particular themes . |
| 30 | Properties they say a few years ago are down by 25 to 30% , that with lower mortgage rates gives them a tremendous boost . |