Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] of a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the structure is not a single crystal , the sizes found vary from somewhat greater than a crystallite to diameters of a few millimetres . |
| 2 | The aspect of definition in Cézanne 's work , its ‘ measurable ’ quality , is well illustrated by the fact that in one of his later Cubist phases Gris was able to interpret one of Cézanne 's portraits of his wife in terms of a few sharply defined , superimposed planes that capture much of the structural feeling of the original . |
| 3 | Walruses and bearded seals , the two largest species , feed mainly on the sea bed , diving in shallow waters to depths of a few hundred metres , using their vibrissae to hunt in the mud for molluscs and crustaceans . |
| 4 | The idea of radical change in terms of a few basic ideas runs through many of the proposals for reform of Spanish government and society made in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as well as those produced by the age of the Enlightenment . |
| 5 | This technique normally produces materials in quantities of a few micrograms . |
| 6 | ‘ Time-lapse ’ , as its name suggests , makes possible recording in bursts of a few frames at variable time intervals so that subjects such as the movement of clouds or the budding of flowers can be studied in speeded-up replay . |
| 7 | They would tour all over the country for wages of a few shillings a week . |
| 8 | If the tapping of telephones of trade unionists in industrial disputes is difficult to justify , even less justifiable is the evidence of the routine and systematic interception of telephones of a few key union leaders . |
| 9 | In most FELs the electron beam consists of short bunches of electrons of a few picoseconds duration owing to bunching in the radiofrequency fields of the accelerator . |
| 10 | Drilling at Ballantrae by Selection Trust Ltd found disseminated and massive nickeliferous marcasite over widths of a few metres ( MEG 103 ) . |