Sentence examples for nervous few from inspiring English sources

IT HAD been a nervous few days.

Only the "tap-goofy," as detectives refer to a nervous few, believe a bad connection means that someone is listening in on their wires.

Earlier in the day, students at Wave Preparatory described a nervous few hours that began when the principal went on the intercom to say that the school was being locked down and that they were to remain in their classrooms.

It has been a nervous few months for Crystal Palace fans as the club have hovered above the relegation zone but they added to their superb home form with a crucial three points against Leeds United yesterday to practically guarantee them Championship football next season.

"It will be a nervous few days and we will have to wait and see.

Most couples are nervous, few have any experience with how close they have to place their mouth to the mic, and there is no time to gracefully change the height of the mic as needed.

"A lot of [the institutional and individual investors who fund venture funds] have held off making commitments because they're affected by capital markets," and when investors' investors start getting nervous, fewer checks tend to get written out to startups.

There were a nervous first few moments, but after that we seemed to rub along reasonably well.

We're tense, we're nervous, but few of us have a baldy clue about epidemiology, so we're reliant on experts to explain it all to us.

I'm very nervous a few days before shooting them, because I'm also quite capable of falling on my face.

Estate agents are nervous, but few expect the dynamics of the housing market to change dramatically.Britons seem to have an abiding faith in the existence of an implicit floor under house prices.