Example sentences of "from a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet all we seem to have heard , either from a few of the more militant leading players or their representatives in recent months , has been the cry ‘ We want more . ’ |
| 2 | He has hitherto fought shy ( apart from a few marginal incentives ) of trying to increase total savings through the tax system . |
| 3 | We stop the jeep for a few words with the Marines , some I recognise from a few weeks ago when they were on their way to take up positions on the coast , on the left of 1st Commando Brigade . |
| 4 | The administration of the Famine was remarkable for the absence of nearly all leading Bolsheviks , apart from a few speeches from one or two of them . |
| 5 | Throughout the three month test I did n't have any trouble with my feet apart from a few blisters after first wearing them . |
| 6 | He was in demand as a confessor , from a few parishioners , a few neighbouring clergy , a few old students at Lincoln . |
| 7 | Apart from a few notable exceptions , all they care about is feet through the door and selling beer . |
| 8 | The sea lagoon turned out to vary in depth from a few inches to a couple of feet . |
| 9 | The business of turning bark into stoppers is very much a cottage industry , apart from a few modern factories . |
| 10 | The hype surrounding Justin v John Fashanu did not materialise but Justin came on , only to miss from a few yards as Sanchez intervened , leading to his injury and the booking of the Wimbledon physio . |
| 11 | Treatment can cost anything from a few hundred pounds to up to £15,000 in exceptional circumstances . |
| 12 | It is exhaustive , impeccably organised , and generally well written ( apart from a few Germanicisms like telephoning ‘ over ’ instead of ‘ via ’ Sweden , and Norway 's defence being ‘ overmanned ’ instead of ‘ overwhelmed ’ ) . |
| 13 | The service provided , and fee are matters to discuss initially with an Architect , ranging in cost from a few pounds upwards . |
| 14 | Apart from a few minor displays , they are free of aggression toward their own kind . |
| 15 | But how to wring new information from a few old pieces of vellum and papyrus ? |
| 16 | If a drug company receives letters of complaint from a few reputable doctors who have prescribed its product , should it then withdraw the product or warn other doctors of the problem ? |
| 17 | This is because they can include additional short irradiations for elements with isotopes of very short half-lives , from a few minutes to a few hours , although this increases the analyst 's work . |
| 18 | Yet , apart from a few family friends , there was little support for such views . |
| 19 | People were aware of the hard struggle ahead and of its significance , but were generally calm and confident , apart from a few nervous expressions of the difficulties involved in conquering ‘ these vast spaces ’ . |
| 20 | And from a few basic observations we have learned that even all may be relative . |
| 21 | Nolan , glowering routinely at Sam from a few feet away , switched his ill-humour to me . |
| 22 | The number of neurones in a brain varies from a few hundred in simple invertebrates up to approximately 10 11 in man . |
| 23 | Yet apart from a few scattered Tory voices , there is no public debate . |
| 24 | At the 13th , Woosnam was heckled and a cheer went up from a few spectators as he put his drive into the creek . |
| 25 | As three cheers rang out from a few dozen loyal supporters gathered in the street below , Mr Kinnock took off his glasses , put them in his pocket , and gave a wistful smile for what might have been to the colleagues clustered around him . |
| 26 | What they all have in common is a basic commitment that the vines should have been cultivated without the use of chemical fertilisers , pesticides , fungicides or herbicides ( except for a few age-old things like Bordeaux mixture ) , and the wine made without chemical additives or agents — apart from a few natural and/or traditional substances . |
| 27 | Apart from a few individuals the hill sheep industry has shown remarkably little concern or demonstrated any important initiative in tackling this problem . |
| 28 | However , Baxter found the people , apart from a few notable exceptions , to be rather apathetic and unresponsive to the message of the Gospel . |
| 29 | Apart from a few fanatics , there was a general disinclination to apply the laws directed against them . |
| 30 | Occlusion bodies ( OBs ) can be from a few hundred nanometres to several micrometres across and these viruses can therefore easily be seen under the light microscope , which greatly aids diagnosis . |