Sentence examples for demanding a few from inspiring English sources

IT all started innocently enough, with the king demanding a few chickens.

All that survives of Chilcot is a few old men demanding a few other old men say sorry.

Well done Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury select committee, for demanding a few answers from the PRA.

Weddings do demand a few practical considerations.

It demands a few seconds' silence and a little attention.

It had never occurred to him to demand a few thousand dollars in exchange for a promise to clear his calendar, and to risk his life.

In football, however, when a coach blows the whistle and demands a few gassers at the end of practice, he'd better not show indifference on his face.

My fitness trainer carries my tennis bag around, but that's so I don't get tired... I can demand a few things once in a while.

Though Max demanded a few days' interval lest Germany's overture for peace should appear too obviously an admission of imminent collapse, the military leaders insisted on an immediate move.

Bryant had been known to slam her door on uninvited visitors, to demand a few "dead Presidents" for an interview, and to beat her manager with a purse for getting her onstage too late.

But investors in long-term instruments usually demand a few percentage points more, a difference called the "term premium", to compensate for the possibility the world turns out differently.