Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As the appliances will be used for quite a few years , perhaps under changing circumstances as couples have children , it 's important to look ahead and not just buy the cheapest model to save a few pounds . |
| 32 | Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week . |
| 33 | It was after ten o'clock , and he would be quite right to disapprove , if it were n't for the fact that , in spite of appearances , she had slept for only a few hours last night . |
| 34 | To coincide with the Year of the Maze , Chatsworth 's famous yew labyrinth is being opened for just a few days during the year , the next openings being on August 18 and September 15 . |
| 35 | Their eyesight can be corrected in just a few minutes by the use of a lasers . |
| 36 | But although the educational services were supplied to only a few inmates , several of these were undertaking advanced work : three had completed BAs over the past few years , another an MA , and nine were embarking upon university degrees by correspondence . |
| 37 | In some parts of the country the extra charge amounts to just a few pounds but the average figure in County Durham and Cleveland is £20 . |
| 38 | Three out of four children are aware of cigarettes before they reach the age of 5 whether the parents smoke or not ; at 10 years old as many as 40% of boys and 28% of girls have had at least a few puffs of a cigarette [ 1 ] and about one third of those who become regular smokers have started before age 9 [ 2 ] . |
| 39 | as if to mock us , Howe 's remarks preceded the release of the South Korean hostage Do Chae Sung by just a few weeks and the liberation of two French hostages by just over a month . |
| 40 | The specimen should be supported so that the etched face is almost horizontal , tilting by only a few degrees . |
| 41 | Most of these accidents could have been avoided by just a few minutes extra care . |
| 42 | Is she regis she 's registered with quite a few agencies has n't she ? |
| 43 | These played for only a few minutes at a time . |
| 44 | In the first months , when hostilities were expected to last for only a few months , party activity was hardly affected at all . |
| 45 | Buddie had taken out his little silver tin and was in the process of rolling one of those thin straggly cigarettes that flared when lit and vanished after only a few puffs . |
| 46 | So there are some new facets to catering in the RAF today compared with even a few years ago . |
| 47 | He was called in here a few days ago , about an accident . ’ |
| 48 | I refer to just a few examples . |
| 49 | Calcite was recognised on only a few sections . |
| 50 | And I now know at least a few words in Greek , Italian and Portuguese ! ’ |
| 51 | Cos I asked in here a few weeks ago and they said . |
| 52 | Jenna knew she would feel trapped — she had known for quite a few days — but she was not about to tell Alain Lemarchand that , and she was just gathering her thoughts to answer when Marguerite called from the hall . |
| 53 | Apollinaris survived for only a few months , and on his death Theuderic had Quintianus installed as bishop , apparently on the grounds that the saint had been driven from Rodez because of his loyalty to the Frankish king . |
| 54 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
| 55 | Upper Framilode is by far the larger and was originally the location of the Purnells ' extensive iron and tinplate works , of which few traces remain , while Lower Framilode consists of just a few cottages , the mill and the Darell Arms . |
| 56 | A plasmid is even smaller than a virus , and it normally consists of only a few genes . |
| 57 | ‘ Seems like just a few minutes ago ’ |
| 58 | We decided that this could happen with quite a few units and that we should point out in the documentation the need to be on guard against it . |
| 59 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 60 | It is found in only a few places in the world . |