Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | She was threatened with that a few days later when she was sweeping the back stairs and her rear view was too much of a temptation for the young footman . |
2 | Add to this a few arguments related to the preservation of choice , local market knowledge , and participation in technology transfer , and you have the case for not allowing air transport power to be concentrated in too few hands . |
3 | In Zimbabwe there are now eight ‘ traditional ’ choirs , all in Harare , as compared with twenty a few years ago . |
4 | Chemical shifts are generally of a few eV or less , and overlap of lines due to different elements is unlikely , as each element contributes at most a few lines in the range 50–1200 eV , while the instrumental linewidth is of the order of 2 eV . |
5 | The hillsides would have been covered like this a few centuries ago — genuine deer forests . |
6 | The latest iteration is the PI/open Unix version , which was launched by Prime a few months before its effective demise . |