Example sentences of "a few [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dunbars have observed only a few such fights to completion but the outcome is quite remarkable . |
| 2 | As long as there is a healthy collection of lactobacilli in the vagina , conditions will be unfavourable for other micro-organisms , and , although a few such organisms may be isolated , their presence does not signify any important infection . |
| 3 | Yugoslavia itself has benefited considerably from a few such direct investments from foreign countries , especially in the automobile industry . |
| 4 | However , in dodder the production of a few such coils usually triggers the development of haustoria which eventually establish the supply lines with the host . |
| 5 | However , a few such are heavily elaborated culturally , and I propose that an examination of these is one means by which we might achieve an understanding of Chewong ‘ peacefulness ’ . |
| 6 | Harper 's own wife would need more than a few such compliments when he reached home , for she had been adamantly opposed to her husband travelling to Brussels . |
| 7 | Tony Ruffell , chief executive of Nottinghamshire FHSA , told me that preliminary research in the county suggested that each general practitioner would encounter only a few such difficult decisions a year — perhaps five or six . |
| 8 | He even suggested that a few such representatives from outside the government might be co-opted on to the State Council , the supreme bureaucratic body beneath the Tsar . |
| 9 | The mother who ‘ ca n't be so cruel ’ as to wake her sleeping baby if he happens to be asleep at the appointed feeding-time , fails to realize that a few such wakings would be all she would have to resort to … |
| 10 | We do still have a few such courses and they work quite well . |
| 11 | We urged the WO to get the SoS to revoke a few such departure applications to send a clear signal to these ( and all planning authorities ) , that the SoS expects them to follow Government guidance . |
| 12 | There are indeed a few such verbs , keep being one of them . |
| 13 | It should be remembered that in this chapter we are dealing only with stress within the word ; this means that we are looking at words as they are said in isolation , which is a rather artificial situation — we do not often say words in isolation , except for a few such as ‘ yes ’ , ‘ no ’ , ‘ possibly ’ , ‘ please ’ and interrogative words such as ‘ what ’ , ‘ who ’ , etc. , but looking at words in isolation does help us to see stress placement and stress levels more clearly than studying them in the context of continuous speech . |
| 14 | All are striking ; some are beautiful , others startling and a few many invoke an involuntary shudder — such as the ‘ Vogue Food Photograph ’ of oyster complete with inquisitively crawling snails and a pair of skinned raw frogs ' legs , or the ‘ Bug in Ear ’ , showing a black beetle poised at the entrance to an aural cavity . |
| 15 | No you can all you can do is just learn a few each day or learn some patterns so that you can get quite a few words in one go and sort of learn some tricks like guessing well we 'll we 'll try with a C. |
| 16 | There are a few each month . |
| 17 | Erm try and do a few each week . |
| 18 | Some of the studies considered the parents ' perspective , and a few that of the children . |
| 19 | In fact only a few of Scotland 's great views are included but many well known ones elsewhere are covered such as Cat Bells and Snowdon , plus a few less familiar ones such as Mow Cop on the edge of the Cheshire Hills and Bennachie in Aberdeenshire . |
| 20 | There may be a few more Mitterrand loyalists , a few less Rocard supporters and non-Socialist centrists , and one more woman ( seven out of 46 ministers , including the new prime minister , Edith Cresson ) . |
| 21 | But we could all do with a few less stuffed velvet Loch Ness monsters and dismal cafeterias that smell of incontinence . |
| 22 | So the apparently boundless diversity of plant life disappears when one recalls that all plants are composed of carbon , hydrogen , oxygen , nitrogen and a few less important elements , and that chemically there is little difference between a daisy and an oak tree . |
| 23 | There are a few less high-powered speed events held around Britain where you came enter using standard equipment and see how fast you can go . |
| 24 | The first full dress rehearsal occurred on July 10 and 637 aircraft took part , a few less than on the actual event . |
| 25 | This was regarded by most as a just reward for helping to raise over £50 million for the cause , but the more sinister downside was that a few less scrupulous characters realised that supporting charities could boost flagging careers and chart positions . |
| 26 | more and more saying look and let's try and kill a few less people . |
| 27 | Right , and that , that 's obviously a , an and if you look at it , it 's it 's got a few less squiggles than that one , but it 's a , it 's a version of . |
| 28 | That is over a million pounds right in that budget for committee administration and you ask me where we can save fifty thousand pounds , well start producing a few less reports . |
| 29 | We want a few less troublemakers |
| 30 | It does not seem so bad when you first approach the language , and you have grasped the not very difficult ( for Scots especially ) alphabet , although a few less words beginning ‘ vagly ’ would be welcome . |