Instead of making just a few calls on stocks, he began issuing alerts on as many as 30 companies a day, advising his customers to buy and sell much more often than he had earlier.
The Web site visforvoltage.com, perhaps the best clearinghouse for information on P.E.V.'s, and a few calls to Mr. Penrose's customers suggested that range and power are the keys to happy cruising.
He upped his workouts, put on the gloves, made a few calls, got his licence in order and stared ahead, not into those bits of his past that were dark and sinister.
Ms. Ferrante made a few calls on Sunday and more on Monday, hoping the Sanitation Department could get the computer back.
He missed a few calls on balls and strikes and then, like many umpires, he tried to make up for it by calling a few the other way.
Nor was it any surprise that he had asked his boss, Sanford I. Weill, chief of Salomon's parent, Citigroup, to make a few calls on behalf of his children, or that Mr. Weill complied.
Make a few calls on your friend's behalf; be a detective.
I did a few calls on tapes just to make my brothers laugh.
It's enough to make a few calls on what the team at Warner Brothers is trying to achieve.
