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Example sentences for "few more"

  • After a few more words, in which Severne, seeing Vizard was in one of his iron moods, and immovable as him of Rhodes, affected now to be a partisan of the new arrangement, Miss Gale rose to retire.

  • If those two meet a few more times, he will be at her mercy; and then won't she throw physic to the dogs, and jump at a husband six feet high, and twelve thousand acres!

  • I shall talk to Uxmoor and a few more, and no magistrate will ever summons you, nor jury convict you, in Barfordshire.

  • After a few more words, they parted till dinner-time.

  • Down the river they have a few kampongs below Long Pangian, in the same vicinity; west of it are a few more, as mentioned in the description of my journey.

  • A few more of the Kahayans, one in Kuala Kapuas for instance, are known to be similarly endowed by nature although not in the same degree as this one.

  • The carriers were slow in coming, and while waiting in the morning I catalogued four baskets which my messenger had brought from Tappin and a few more which I was able to buy here.

  • It might take a few more days, a week, not longer than that.

  • Oh, how precious the warm bed was, and how his growing body craved a few more hours of sleep!

  • It was flying, flying--in a few more years he would be fifty.

  • But a few more years of profiteering, and Conservatives would have become Reds.

  • Cut out all social activities, giving yourself up to the acquisition of a few more of the right kind of corpuscles in your too-blue blood.

  • I shall be rid of him altogether in a few more minutes.

  • We brought nothing into this world--and we'll be very close to the next one in a few more minutes," he said.

  • We shall know in a few more minutes," he said.

  • And before the end of the fortnight it was necessary to think of raising another small sum of money; he took his watch to the pawnbroker's (you can imagine that it would not stand as security for much), and sold a few more books.

  • For a few more months I may be able to pursue my ordinary work, but before long I shall certainly be disabled from earning my livelihood by literature.

  • A few more days, and he was possessed by a calm of spirit such as he had never known.

  • Just then up comes the Mr. Dawsons and Starlight, with the Commissioner and a few more.

  • You'll have to be quiet and obey orders now--that is if a few more years' life's any good to you.

  • If he was such a swell too, he'd have a gold watch and perhaps a few more trifles.

  • Only four months,' he said; 'and after a few more trips I shan't want to go away any more.

  • In the afternoon Hubbard and I caught thirty trout in an hour at the rapid a mile and a half above our camp, and a few more in the river close by the camp.

  • Hadn't you better break a few more boughs?

  • With a few more words of parting, Gretchen stepped into the street, followed by Professor Bridwell, and they went their separate ways.

  • She had only to look at the assistant reference librarian, Miss Sadie, to see how she herself would be in but a few more years.

  • There's only a few more things in the basket, Miss Brand,' I said.

  • Jack exchanged a few more words, and then, excusing himself on account of his haste, put the spurs to his horse and regained his own party, who now proceeded at a rapid pace.

  • He picked a few more apples, for it was his dinner-time, and as he chewed he ruminated.

  • A few more buckets of water soon brought the men to their senses: they again stood on their legs, and gradually recovered themselves.

  • We did a little more shopping and saw a few more sights.

  • A few more days on the water was of no consequence, except as Chester said to Lucy, to enjoy a little longer the after-seasickness period of the voyage.

  • A few more days of absolute rest, and you'll be all right, eh, brother?

  • Only a few more hours, and this little sun-kissed voyage would end.

  • It would have gone hardly with us had there been but a few more men, or if these had brought pick and spade with them.

  • I only wish we were a trifle farther from the Wye now, or that we had a few more men.

  • Down the street galloped a few more Danes, looking behind them as they rode.

  • Therefore the boy must spare a few more drops of his blood, and he will do so gladly if he receives something pretty as a reward.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    buffalo bull; certain other; could sleep; factory legislation; few days after the; few days before his; few days before the; few feet; few feet above the; few feet from the; few hours; few inches; few men; few miles; few miles from the; few more; few rods; few seconds; few steps; few weeks; few words; few years before the; larger quantities; nesting birds; successive stages; wire cloth