Example sentences of "a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I managed to get in hundreds of leaflets , through a few loyal workers in the Department , but these were either destroyed or had little effect ; or more likely , were not adequately distributed out of fear . |
| 2 | That behaviour demanded more suffering than just a few uncomfortable hours . |
| 3 | The Dane did not look too happy when substituted 10 minutes from time , and Newcastle faded after his departure , surviving a few uncomfortable moments before the end . |
| 4 | ‘ A few coy looks , fluttering eyelashes , all that sort of thing ? ’ |
| 5 | Not only through the cavorting about but by excruciatingly pretentious rave-speak between songs , a few pointless samples , a few pointless keyboard squiggles and a bit of pointless scratching from the sadly redundant DJ . |
| 6 | Not only through the cavorting about but by excruciatingly pretentious rave-speak between songs , a few pointless samples , a few pointless keyboard squiggles and a bit of pointless scratching from the sadly redundant DJ . |
| 7 | A few unhappy lines from long lost relatives ? |
| 8 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 9 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 10 | Rent a horse or a motor bike and explore on a few leisurely sorties . |
| 11 | Golf is one of the fastest growing sports worldwide , and for many playing a few leisurely games is the top priority during a weekend . |
| 12 | ‘ How do I know what I think till I 've heard what I 've got to say ? ’ they will ask ; and , sitting down at the keyboard , will type in a few hasty half-baked assertions , and let the program nag them into developing a coherent and well-expressed thesis . |
| 13 | A few hasty notes in July show that he continued to visit 6 Patten Road , and occasionally to have dinner there , until their separation became a reality , when Helen took up a resident post as governess with the Wards , at 33 Bath Road , Bedford and Edward spent August with his father 's relations at 17 Woodville Street , Pontardulais , while his younger brothers became pupils at a small denominational school in Ammanford . |
| 14 | He had taken only a few hasty steps when he heard the tread of feet on the wooden steps above his head . |
| 15 | Jack had borrowed boots and skis for me and I stumbled out into the great outdoors and enjoyed a few hasty lessons down the snow-covered slopes of the mountain . |
| 16 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've had a few hasty assignations in lay-bys to pass over pots of prepared food that no one must know were n't prepared by the hostess , ’ says Mrs Anderson . |
| 18 | He says that they get quite a few injured badgers this time of year . |
| 19 | A few strategic blows with a hammer will achieve this without shattering the whole thing , but it 's prudent to first bail out as much water as possible from the trap . |
| 20 | So your ideal system would have been to have a few strategic Cabinet committees beneath the Cabinet that would have done all the most controversial business ? |
| 21 | This year was unusual in having quite a few cool , cloudy days and some rain , though the final week was sunny and quite hot . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Following the outstanding results for continental furniture achieved in London and New York last season , Christie 's produced a confident catalogue for their 4 November New York sale with a few outstanding lots , most of which sold , although only just . |
| 24 | A few outstanding bills were paid , and the application by the master and matron for a testimonial was granted . |
| 25 | They need a few outstanding individuals to lead them and to rally them when they flee . |
| 26 | There should be a few outstanding British artists in both sections , even if it means a kind of devaluation of those British artists represented only in the national collections . |
| 27 | Earlier it had been drawn overwhelmingly from the privileged strata , the sons of the landed nobility and higher ranks of the civil service , and only a few outstanding figures had emerged as pioneers in the ‘ gentry stage ’ of the revolutionary movement . |
| 28 | The social hierarchy in English towns took the same shape as in the countryside , tapering from a broad base composed of those who lived on or below the poverty line to a few outstanding wealthy families . |
| 29 | Exact patterns of change will remain a matter of controversy for historians , as they were for contemporaries , but what emerges from the inadequate farm records and welter of subjective comment by biased and often condescending outside observers is a marked contrast between the fortunes of a few well-organised and prosperous landowners and the general backwardness of their counterparts and tenants . |
| 30 | Instead of the cafe or the restaurant that he 'd expected , he found a narrow shop with a few uncontroversial-looking videos in the window display and a more extensive and X-rated stock of tapes and magazines inside . |