Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had a clear picture , for there was virtually no cloud cover , with only a few wispy strips of cirrus streaked like vapour trails against the reddish-brown groundscape . |
| 32 | Swapping to Korg 's SPC-1 sound card produced more of the same , with only a few interesting variations . |
| 33 | After the revival in 1688 , the Kilwinning papingo shoot continued with only a few brief interruptions through the 18th and into the 19th century . |
| 34 | But if building rocky edifices is not your style then you can keep them in a tank with just a few normal caves ( or flowerpots ) ( Lanistes shells being regrettably unavailable to hobbyists ) . |
| 35 | With just a few honourable exceptions , congressmen fawn over him whenever he comes to town . |
| 36 | The break-up of the coalition and Churchill 's formation of a ‘ caretaker ’ government , consisting largely of his Conservative supporters together with just a few non-party men , followed almost at once . |
| 37 | In America , wind is already being used by small communities with just a few well-designed windmills to supply all their power needs . |
| 38 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 39 | There was no rain overnight so that the ground er is good with just a few soft places . |
| 40 | With just a few basic materials , I now have paintings hanging on walls in relatives homes . |
| 41 | Enoch Powell , who needed nobody to tell him that he could n't win ( he knew that perfectly well ) , was not the object of anything that could properly be called a campaign : he was a loner with just a few devoted friends behind him . |
| 42 | They are narrative , and tell us of a situation , or prepare us for some significant message : Once having told us the story , set the mood , and prepared us for the shout of a choir of angels , Handel could paint a triumphant musical fresco with just a few poetic words : |
| 43 | B. Some towns have attracted more people than others , so there is a hierarchy of sizes , with just a few large towns and many smaller ones . |
| 44 | In a natural arrangement use mainly medium size headed flowers with just a few large heads |
| 45 | They 've sold American rights in both of the novels , film rights in The Factory Whistle and they 're being translated into quite a few foreign languages . |
| 46 | An unprecedented crowd , with quite a few strange faces , had gathered round the church door before the afternoon service . |
| 47 | Er but we dealt with quite a few serious accidents in the time I was there . |
| 48 | A rather lively and interesting school , as it turned out , with quite a few theatrical sons and daughters as pupils and an emphasis on the performing arts . |
| 49 | It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system . |
| 50 | Cocoa cultivation spread so quickly around the world that all the crops derived from only a few wild ancestors , so that modern cultivated varieties suffer from a lack of genetic variation . |
| 51 | It is interesting that the anion-cation charge transfer is so marked in and and that they are stable in only a few inorganic solvents — eg liquid . |
| 52 | However , analysis of genotype-phenotype association is possible in only a few frequent mutations ; the majority of the mutations are rare . |
| 53 | The future socialist society , he explained , would be one in which state planning would be retained in only a few essential sectors , but which would otherwise rely upon market forces . |
| 54 | There was nothing unpleasant in his scrutiny , no hint of lechery or desire , yet she felt deeply uncomfortable standing there before him , clad in only a few minute scraps of cloth . |
| 55 | The tonal range is extensive from just a few different grades . |
| 56 | The tonal range is extensive from just a few different grades . |
| 57 | Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish . |
| 58 | In just a few short years the throwline has become standard equipment for white water paddlers . |
| 59 | In just a few short years , the average hospital stay after a baby has dropped from eight to ten days in 1982 , to just three to four in 1989 . |
| 60 | Also it is changing from having tools made in many small workshops all over the country , to having machines made in just a few large factories . |