Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 2 | And all of this for just a few pounds . |
| 3 | She put her hands against her face , thinking , ‘ I shall stand this for only a few seconds more , then I shall leave . ’ |
| 4 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 5 | Sometimes , a tree may be all female , at other times , mostly male with just a few branches carrying fruits from female flowers , and at other times again , the flowers will have both male and female organs , as is the case in most other flowering plants . |
| 6 | Had its fabric endured with its frescoes undamaged for just a few centuries longer , it might well have been ranked as one of the world 's Seven Wonders . |
| 7 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 8 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 9 | This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year . |
| 10 | The bride 's mother takes her seat last of all with only a few minutes to spare . |
| 11 | While our friends have made their new houses look good in just a few hours with a lick of paint , we 've had to put up new ceilings , repair skirting boards and hack off layers of old tiles . |
| 12 | On the other hand Nova Cygni 1975 , which rose to magnitude 1.8 in only a few hours , dropped below naked-eye visibility in less than a week , and by now I have lost sight of it even with the 39-cm reflector in my observatory . |
| 13 | if you did that in quite a few places |
| 14 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 15 | As ever , we must balance the temptation to introduce such rights willy-nilly against the unreasonable cost burden that might rest increasingly on employers , especially those with only a few employees . |
| 16 | It is one of only a few products that can run text round an irregular object , although there are restrictions to this . |
| 17 | They are one of only a few companies to offer stair carpeting in a choice of stocked ranges . |
| 18 | In more recent years , Whessoe has laid off a number of men , and moved into more specialist fields , but it is still one of only a few companies listed on the Stock Exchange to have its headquarters in the North-East . |
| 19 | GEOGRAPHY is taught to Standard Grade , Higher Grade and Certificate of Sixth Year Studies levels and we are one of only a few schools to offer GEOLOGY Higher Grade . |
| 20 | Even in England there were occasional signs that the usefulness of having available at least a few men with a knowledge of oriental languages was understood . |
| 21 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |
| 22 | Despite having been in the open for only a few seconds , they had been soaked . |
| 23 | One of man 's great intellectual adventures — the exploration and understanding of his own nervous system — is progressing at a rate undreamed of only a few decades ago . |
| 24 | And when in 1937 a questionnaire was distributed to authors about their attitude towards the Spanish Civil War , he sent the reply ( which he said that he never expected to be published ) that , " While I am naturally sympathetic I still feel convinced that it is best that at least a few men of letters remain silent " . |
| 25 | Leave luggage unattended for even a few seconds |
| 26 | The cellular type are best for just a few seeds : sow two or three in each cell and thin to one if more germinate . |
| 27 | In general symptoms are mild and admission to hospital is necessary in only a few cases . |
| 28 | Secondly , one might accept the view that efficiency should not be ignored in analysing the firm , without believing that monopoly issues are relevant in only a few situations . |
| 29 | Having used version 5.5 for only a few days I could never go back . |
| 30 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |