Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [prep] only a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial ribbon development along the Ermine Street frontages with only a few irregular side-lanes and possibly one large building ( No. 1 ) . |
| 2 | Although the finding of typical , oval , thin-shelled strongyle eggs on faecal examination may be a useful aid to diagnosis , it is important to remember that substantial worm burdens may be associated with faecal egg counts of only a few hundred epg , due either to low fecundity of adult worms or to the presence of many immature parasites . |
| 3 | But the ground conditions in some parts of Europe make good results extremely difficult to obtain : some areas of Portugal , for instance , have field sizes of only a few metres and exhibit multi-level and multi-seasonal cropping . |
| 4 | The first is to design and construct local services for the majority of mentally disordered people who live in their own homes and who may use mental health services for only a few weeks every few years . |
| 5 | I told him and we reached the CHAB studios with only a few moments to settle Mr Murray before the microphone and be ready for the red light signifying we were ‘ on the air ’ . |
| 6 | By a quirk of nature , many large-volume rhyolite systems harbour exceptional melt Rb/Sr ratios ( in the range 100–1000 ) and consequently experience rapid changes in Sr-isotope composition as radioactive 87 Rb decays to 87 Sr. With routine measurements of Sr-isotope ratios possible to a precision of a few tens of parts per million , time differences of only a few thousand years between crystallization and eruption ages become detectable . |