Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has even suggested that a little less fishing might deplete the shoals enough to squeeze in a few vegetables . |
| 2 | On the one hand , production was modernized in ever larger factories and ownership was concentrated in a network of trusts , cartels and syndicates increasingly dominated by a few major banks . |
| 3 | In 1986 , when leading , he hit a four-iron into it , his confidence seemingly shattered for a few years after . |
| 4 | The group then reassembles for a few days to allow everyone to present their trial training session . |
| 5 | Drafted in March 1949 , the article never emerged beyond a few notes , mainly about Brideshead itself , though the task led him to reread all Waugh 's early works , including his biographies , and it was evidently one the dying man approached with enthusiasm . |
| 6 | The point is that they are unlikely to find answers to these questions neatly encapsulated in a few words , and so they are forced to be selective in what they read . |
| 7 | The Ministers arrived at first light to find the palace dark and empty , the huge rooms barely lit by a few lamps placed here and there showing the furniture covered in drapes . |
| 8 | Even with a well performed sphincterotomy of judivious size , unpredictable harmorrhage still occurs in a few cases . |
| 9 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |
| 10 | A wall goes down from the road straight as a die to Ease Gill and a walk alongside leads in a few minutes to a small hole in the ground that opens into lengthy passages below : this is Short Drop Cave . |
| 11 | Neutron stars may produce more energy than the Sun soon after they form , when they are active as pulsars , but this phase of energetic activity only lasts for a few thousand years . |
| 12 | Why the first , albeit hypothetical , metazoans never grew beyond a few millimetres in size is not understood . |