Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] just a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
2 | Kleiman suggested that this was because his shadowing task had occupied space in the readers ' " working memory " — a kind of short-term memory useful in retaining numbers and words for just a few seconds . |
3 | When paths are short , every rule on the path will gain an improved weight after just a few searches , and for a good rule , the gain in weight will be significant even if the rule is first on the path . |
4 | This example might seem unrealistically pessimistic , as a new band may feel confident of being able to record and release their album in just a few months , with money from sales and royalties quickly starting to now in . |
5 | Letters have been flooding in from viewers desperate to see the Spanish soap from the axe in just a few weeks . |
6 | Under these circumstances , attempting even an interim assessment of just a few facets of change may appear premature ( not to mention hubristic ) . |
7 | How our lives have changed in the course of just a few decades . |
8 | And it was n't a case of just a few beatings and that |
9 | One thing which will prove very disconcerting for a young puppy is to be left on its own in kennels after being in a home for just a few weeks . |
10 | The wedding started with a simple service in City Hall with just a few witnesses , but once the hotel heard that Brenda and Pete wished to get married on the beach , they were swept off their feet . |
11 | And we 're gon na look at a passage in just a few moments in , it 's in the eighth chapter of acts where a group of people there , they were Samaritans how they came in to experience their pentecost . |
12 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
13 | This is due to the fact that we are no longer told to add crushed rusks to our babies ' bottles at just a few weeks old . |
14 | The success of modestly-priced courses such as East Horton and the increasing popularity of driving ranges , where anyone can turn up with a three wood and a five iron and whack a basket of balls for just a few pounds , shows that golf can still thrive in the recession — if the price is right . |
15 | A period of just a few seconds was allowed for recall and if they could recall only one or two letters the subjects were asked to specify their position in the sequence . |
16 | If the sociologist regards the interview schedule ( and , as we shall discuss later , the questionnaire ) in this way then he will not rush blithely into the field with a schedule which is the product of just a few hours ' odd jottings on rough paper . |
17 | We will try to illustrate these possibilities with just a few examples , though it is naturally impossible to cover the subject adequately in a short space . |
18 | On the other hand , in many other spheres , the most amazing developments that have taken place in just a few decades are taken completely for granted and even more is expected . |
19 | That seems a far cry from just a few years ago when the only diesels were lorries , buses and the occasional taxi . |
20 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
21 | We talk about the stress in just a few minutes . |
22 | Clarify , however , is positioning itself against the others as the most ‘ haute couture ’ of the breed , the kind of house that could easily mushroom into a $100m enterprise in just a few years . |
23 | But a Home Office pathologist said Grant had been shot in the back of the head from just a few inches . |
24 | However , a massive compression can be achieved by creating a relatively short code of just a few bytes which effectively tells the computer that ‘ the next 400,000 bytes will be blue ’ . |
25 | Rather , it invents a sort of simplified version of the training set : When the net has finished learning , the nodes in it form clusters of just a few points which each reflect much larger clusters in the training set . |
26 | It is this incredible flexibility that allows us to juggle page layouts in just a few minutes and produce a fresh piece of artwork each time rather than wait hours , even days , for the re-worked page to come back from the artist 's studio . |
27 | It 's the fourth attack on the very old in the Milton Keynes area in just a few months . |
28 | The net result could be a rise in sea levels by just a few millimetres . |
29 | The 28,000 mile race could be settled within the space of just a few hours this weekend . |
30 | ‘ Two accidents in just a few days . ’ |