Example sentences of "[conj] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are the rare cases , as with the bronze and brass Etruscan statuettes described above , where a few moments spent performing a surface analysis can unequivocally solve a problem , which might have remained a stylistic conundrum for ever . |
| 2 | In the small front yard , where a few sheep could be penned for clipping , a tar costel is placed to hold the Stockholm tar . |
| 3 | In Sussex this species is largely confined to Chichester and Pagham Harbours , where a few remain to summer in many years , although totals of more than 50 are most unusual . |
| 4 | When the kite is launched on a fully paid-out line , it will soar to height where a few diligent shakes ought to detach our little friend , not forgetting the golden rule of anchoring the static line somehow so that the parachute deploys ! |
| 5 | You board the ferry at Dover early Friday afternoon , switch to the train at Calais ( where a few French francs are useful ) and reach St Anton on Saturday in time for breakfast . |
| 6 | Over the top of the pass there is a long descent through plantations and along a hillside into the fertile valley of Glen More , a quiet cultivated strath where a few farms keep their pastures in good heart , contrasting with the shaggy heights around . |
| 7 | It was as large a set as had been developed earlier for general use , except for the London area ( where a few larger sets had been installed in the 1930s and some larger sets of somewhat antiquated design were also completed by the BEA in its early years ) , There were , however , doubts about the flexibility in start-up and shut-down times for the new 60MW and other new designs , and a fortiori about more advanced designs . |
| 8 | As she grew older , she looked upon herself , tragically , defiantly , with all the hopelessness of fourteen years , as a plant trying to root itself upon the solid rock , without water , without earth , without shade : and then , when a little older yet , when conscious of some growth , she had to concede that she must have fallen happily upon some small dry sandy fissure , where a few grains of sand , a few drops of moisture , had been enough to support her trembling and tenacious life . |
| 9 | We would go down to the Seine and speak of water , boats and fish ; or we would go to the public park , where a few birds languished in an ancient aviary and the old mynah bird entertained us with a lavish range of endearments . |
| 10 | A hardy annual , it can be grown in any garden where a few patches here and there can be a delight . |
| 11 | He opened a door and I staggered gratefully into a sweet bovine warmth where a few shaggy little bullocks stood hock deep in straw . |
| 12 | Benson 's first workshop opened in 1880 at North End Road , Fulham , where a few men operated foot-powered lathes for turning metal . |
| 13 | Quiss came back to the table by way of another small , though taller , table over on the far side of the room , where a few dirty cups and cracked glasses stood in a small tin basin under a dripping tap . |
| 14 | She returned to the present , replaced the cleaned pail , the soap , the brush and the swab beside the pump in the lean-to outhouse at the back — it stood in a small soot-encrusted yard where a few fearless London sparrows frequently gathered — and returned to the house to clean the surgery . |
| 15 | I decided to go the house a few gardens away where a few pitiful meows brings some food from the woman . |
| 16 | The salient fact is that what is uniquely on offer at these parties is not all-night dancing or a few boutique drugs , but fantasy-sensation itself : the orgiastic effect of thousands of people mainlining heavy acid rock at the level of total sound . |
| 17 | The various provinces of Russia were too many and too mixed to allow of any division into two or a few camps , irrespective of whether socio-economic conditions , nationality , religion , or politics are concerned . |
| 18 | It was just one more sign of his separateness from the people around who would buy a cow or a few more fields . |
| 19 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 20 | Any budding Napoleon with a few hours to spare — or a few days , for some games — can choose from titles such as ‘ Butcher of Baghdad ’ , ‘ Gulf Strike ’ and ‘ Line in the Sand ’ . |
| 21 | In practice , the vast majority of reported offences of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl of 16 involve young men of a similar age or a few years older , and the general trend is to administer a formal caution to such persons rather than to prosecute them . |
| 22 | The Persons who inhabit the Cottages are chiefly poor Labouring People , who are induced to seek Habitations in the Forest for the Advantages of living Rent free , and having the Benefit of Pasturage for a Cow or a few Sheep , and of keeping Pigs in the Woods ; but many Encroachments have been made by People of Substance . |
| 23 | West Country Living : A few hours or a few weeks before the mast With air like this , it 's a sin not to get out into it . |
| 24 | A few hundred or a few thousand farmers might oppose a return to downland because it would mean lower profits . |
| 25 | For those with bags of energy left after exploring the valley , try the local night club , or a few beers in the local pub — The Londoner ! |
| 26 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 27 | All Boy could think of to explain this was that the man was older than he was , and that he actually had a husband in a sort of way , and not just for one night or a few nights , and so that had to be why he felt differently about the films he watched . |
| 28 | The introduction , in 1951 , of the General Certificate of Education made it easier to enrol secondary-modern pupils for such examinations , since at ordinary level ( O level ) the more able among them could now take one subject or a few subjects , without having to take a whole group of subjects at the same time . |
| 29 | Any given male sang only one or a few of these songs . |
| 30 | The human brain , and the body that it controls , can not do more than one or a few things at once . |