Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 2 | Even the currently flourishing Pinnacle Distribution did a kamikaze act just a few years ago , decimating the indie scene . |
| 3 | It helps to ask the client 's permission to jot down a few facts . |
| 4 | In his office an anxious Herr Nordern gouged out a few marks from unenthusiastic colleagues for a wreath for Steinmark 's funeral . |
| 5 | There must be very few bird reserves situated only a few minutes ' walk from the centre of a town which turn out to be as rewarding as Radipole Lake , another RSPB reserve . |
| 6 | The pictures show just a few shapes of wagon . |
| 7 | Pedestrians scampered blindly across the road to catch waiting buses , the cars jerked ahead a few yards every time the traffic lights turned to green . |
| 8 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 9 | It was certainly slow , but then computers somehow nowadays can take months to turn out a few seconds of screen time . |
| 10 | Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall , powerful figure standing just a few feet away . |
| 11 | Donna flicked ahead a few pages but could see no way of hastening her search for the information she sought . |
| 12 | Petty sessions throw up a few cases , but not many . |
| 13 | One point to remember , incidentally , is that in those days all recordings were played at 78 rpm , so each side ran only a few minutes . |
| 14 | The horse jumped forward a few paces with his limbs bunched up and then , holding himself for a brief moment in a static rear , galloped off in sheer terror down the path . |
| 15 | This leap into the future comes only a few months after the dest … ruction by fire of — ’ |
| 16 | Although Serb lines are within range of Bosnian artillery on nearby Igman mountain , the Bosnians have only a few tanks and not much ammunition . |
| 17 | Mrs Czermak received only a few cuts and bruises but her victim was killed instantly . |
| 18 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 19 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 20 | Sharon , 25 , and 27-year-old Hamdi met at Nottingham University — then discovered their parents lived just a few streets away from each other in Birmingham . |
| 21 | The answer to this question has not a few repercussions in the social world that sociologists study — often for purely secular reasons . |
| 22 | Fill players like O'Grady and Hibbit , then later Bates and Yorath played quite a few games . |
| 23 | However , many of them show random variations in brightness lasting only a few months or , on occasion , days . |
| 24 | Captain Dunbar 's been around now for over a year and most of Madeleine 's suitors last only a few months , so we think it 's serious . ’ |
| 25 | Then Dratslinger 's howling lamentarion screamed out a few chords , Tumblejack began to give tongue like an animal in severe affliction , and the true invocation began . |
| 26 | Yet their death by chainsaw took only a few moments . |
| 27 | In one instance , a young pilot started a launch with another glider standing only a few yards to the side and just ahead of the take-off point . |
| 28 | p.s. saw Celtic play here a few weeks ago — a really SHITE team at the moment . |
| 29 | His dad Keith and mum Carol live just a few streets away in Hoylake , Wirral . |
| 30 | The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu . |