Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no political aims and did not lead a faction , although he sought lesser posts for a few clients . |
| 2 | Indeed , it is possible to obtain organic oils from a few suppliers ( see page 131 ) , but these essences are considerably more expensive than those from plants grown with chemical fertilizers and sprayed with non-organic pesticides . |
| 3 | She tried low-calorie diets for a few week . |
| 4 | Wood , cork and well-laid vinyl tiles can be painted with gloss paint and given extra protection with a few coats of polyurethane or yacht varnish . |
| 5 | Triple tests for ammonia , nitrite and nitrate have revealed startling fluctuations over a few days . |
| 6 | Unless the wind is very strong , if it is obvious that you can reach the field , it is useful to open full airbrake for a few seconds immediately after the final turn to check that you can undershoot . |
| 7 | Both modern and ancient zones show intense reaction within a few centimetres of the soil surface , perhaps the area with least preservation potential , but very little alteration of the original sediment below that depth . |
| 8 | Alan 's already had initial discussions with a few of us and with Graham about what the next stage should be erm but that 's really not been finalized yet . |
| 9 | It 's all part of the charm , a charm that brings hundreds back year after year to escape frenetic perfection for a few weeks . |
| 10 | This reduces reporting time to a few days . |
| 11 | The bank is looking for someone canny — not to say extremely gifted — who has developed the right skills in a reasonably sized corporate environment within a few years of qualifying . |
| 12 | The evening before the diagnosis was made I had a double whisky and developed sneezing and rhinitis , but on this occasion I developed severe bronchospasm within a few minutes . |
| 13 | Normally you will want to use full side-slip for a few seconds rather than a small amount of slip for a much longer time . |
| 14 | These difficulties were the source of much of the conflict among philanthropists , between those who preferred to give thorough-going help to a few and those who believed that the scale of destitution was such that wholesale relief was necessary at least in times of high unemployment , to palliate serious destitution and to prevent social disorder . |
| 15 | Perhaps , by the way , Americans can manage to hunt French deer within a few paragraphs ; others prefer a rather larger area . |
| 16 | That way it might be easier to match relative velocities for a few seconds . |
| 17 | His raw material consists of Stephen Fry playing Stephen Fry thinly disguised as a throw-back aristo who decides to share his recently inherited stately pile for a few days with his old friends from revue days . |
| 18 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 19 | The dawn phenomenon — rising blood glucose due to an increased insulin requirement in the early morning — is seen in most diabetics and presents practical problems in a few ( Bolli & Gerich , 1984 , Editorial , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Though water is solid for much of the year , the annual thaw in spring and summer provides a wide range of aquatic habitats that support biological activity , and may even allow high productivity for a few weeks each year . |
| 21 | Those outside the card-playing school viewed her suspiciously because she seemed to get embarrassing crushes on a few of her colleagues . |
| 22 | However , whereas years of training and practice were usually needed to master the many and complex skills of recombinant DNA technology , the complete beginner can start to perform polymerase chain reaction experiments and generate meaningful results within a few days at most — hence the explosion of activity . |
| 23 | The deaf in Exeter occupied temporary premises for a few weeks , before settling into another building near the centre of the town , but not for very long . |
| 24 | The moral to be drawn from this is , let us apply the same committed and co-ordinated approach to deliver a Scottish parliament , which could tackle a whole range of problems , rather than simply showing piecemeal enthusiasm over a few issues like water and the poll tax . |
| 25 | But how to wring new information from a few old pieces of vellum and papyrus ? |
| 26 | Their approach was to run a business similar to a small City firm of solicitors , maintaining close relationships with a few senior people for whom they would provide a personal service and gain good repeat business . |
| 27 | They succeed by a greater division of labour , with most volunteers carrying responsibility for generalist advice while referring complex work to a few specialists . |
| 28 | A pity really , as I thought Gazelle had great potential with a few modifications . |
| 29 | For this reason I always emphasise that if , as you complete the final turn , you are happy that you have got the field ‘ made ’ , you should always open full airbrake for a few moments to check that you would undershoot with that setting . |
| 30 | Alistair hoped to impress Hazel with his growing ease in this milieu ( and managed to exchange wary leers with a few shambling , half-familiar figures — fellow screenplay writers , knowers , seekers ) . |