Example sentences of "[Wh adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | They descend on Glasgow whenever a few people with talent appear . |
| 2 | It 's amazing how a few simple changes can make such a difference ! ’ |
| 3 | There remained only ‘ Z ’ Special Force , an undercover operation on the island run by Captains Broadhurst and Wylie , former members of the Malay police force , who organised native lookouts and a radio reporting system which at one time had 25 radio stations on the island , demonstrating how a few guerrillas may succeed in adverse local conditions where a larger force can not survive . |
| 4 | Over supper Gardiner and Foxe explained how a few days earlier Cardinal Campeggio , the Papal Legate had refused to take a decision on the King 's petition for a divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon and had transferred the case to Rome . |
| 5 | it shows how the centrefold effect can be used to embrace wide landscapes ; how a minimum of colour can gain maximum effect , and how a few lines of scribble can hold a lot of memory . |
| 6 | Another writes , cryptically : ‘ I also realise , looking back , how a few relationships with the opposite sex have added a golden thread and tinged my life with deep regret ’ . |
| 7 | And the chapter on some uses of grammar turns out to be more about how a few parts of the grammatical system undergoing diachronic change are open for exploitation by authors at this time . |
| 8 | Snappy , short news sequences certainly helped promote some of the big names but this was on a small scale in comparison with the United States where a few outstanding sportsmen became Hollywood stars . |
| 9 | They strolled into the hall where a few couples were vaguely swaying under the glare of yellow neon , and the basilisk stare of Fräulein Renn . |
| 10 | The 1988 Criminal Justice Act extended it to cover all crimes where a few thousand pounds are involved . |
| 11 | Napoleon III had already found it useful as a place where a few quiet days might be spent with a friend . |
| 12 | They are limited to microworlds where a few simple rules of thumb reign . |
| 13 | People were crying in shock and smoke billowing above Pearse , Talbot and Parnell streets marking the spots where a few hours earlier , country women and men had hurried past to catch trains home for the weekend . |
| 14 | Among those animals where a few males mate with most of the females and where , as a result , competition between males for females is intense , weapons such as antlers , horns and teeth are particularly well developed . |
| 15 | When he arrived with his parents for the interview the headmaster took him to a field where a few golf holes were laid out , handed him a wedge and a bucket of balls , and told Jack to hit some shots at one of the greens while he organised some tea for his parents . |
| 16 | The time-pressure may cause serious problems , particularly in small departments where a few engineers have to handle all problems related to product technology . |
| 17 | It 's one of those impossible calculations where a few more noughts would make no difference , like the number of light years to Orion , whose belt Fairfax pointed out to me earlier . |
| 18 | The head waiter came towards them , and Anthony gave another name , not his , and they were ushered to a table in the window , overlooking the terrasse where a few customers were sitting in the open , a glass or two in front of them in the freshening air . |
| 19 | They went across the fields and came to a place where a few stones lay , giving no indication at all that they had once combined to form a dwelling for holy women . |
| 20 | They had cornered the Jeopardites in a canyon where a few makeshift tents indicated a Jeopardite camp had been discovered . |
| 21 | She found a parking space near the Queen 's Hotel and strolled across Imperial Gardens where a few tourists were admiring the spring flowers and chestnut blossom in the Promenade . |
| 22 | ‘ It must be where a few people , of the very highest quality , come to stay . ’ |
| 23 | The Kenway depot , the court was told , had been a ‘ happy place ’ where a few employees had gone about beaming from ear to ear , high on drugs , and where they ‘ did a better dance than the Kwik-Fit fitters ’ . |
| 24 | Thank you Chairman , as er members will know there 's an experiment at Felixstowe where a few local members and the |
| 25 | However a few people who tested antibody negative have gone on to develop AIDS , and some scientists now believe that — extremely rarely — someone with HIV may never produce antibodies . |
| 26 | However a few bodies have persisted in applying very late . |
| 27 | However a few points about Big Bad john : |
| 28 | ‘ My singing career sort of got off the ground through the show too because it was when a few of us from the show got together to sing at a benefit concert for a football club in Australia that I first publicly sang ‘ The Locomotion . ’ |
| 29 | There was a time when a few Guernseys were traditionally kept in South Devon dairy herds to boost the fat content of the milk . |
| 30 | It was not officially ‘ discovered ’ until the 1970s , when a few were brought to the United States . |