Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] to a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 2 | Cut all main branches back to a few inches long and for each prepare 2–3 scions of the new variety as for whip and tongue grafting , but trim their bases to a long wedge shape . |
| 3 | Actually , the family lived at Trebyan up to a few months before I was born , then they moved next door to be near the shop . ’ |
| 4 | The blastoids ( class Blastoidea ) had compact cups up to a few centimetres long , with five broad food grooves running down the sides ( lacking crinoid arms ) . |
| 5 | Pitcairn seamount lavas have O isotope ratios up to a few parts per million higher than the mantle value , which leads to the virtually inescapable conclusion that they contain a component that was once at the surface of the Earth . |
| 6 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 7 | On moderately dry ground , for example along the coast of Antarctica , unsorted polygons are convex shapes in the ground up to a few metres across , ringed by a network of furrows that mark the positions of persistent cracks ( Figure 3.8 ) . |
| 8 | Only when that bar in the bathroom was wafer thin or the toilet roll down to a few sheets , would the replacement be moved to the Forward Depot — the bathroom cupboard . |
| 9 | A prototype module of the barrier , known by the apt acronym M.O.S.E. , was in position for tests up to a few months ago . |
| 10 | Cut the rootstock back to a few inches high . |