Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adv] [art] few [noun] " 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 | You will find this with quite a few fish — pairs squabble but groups of three or more are fine . |
| 6 | The net result of a system which mixed young and old , debtors and criminals , men and women , first offenders and old lags indiscriminately was , inevitably , that prisoners were exploited , brutalized and deprived of even the few rights that the law allowed them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 10 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The bride 's mother takes her seat last of all with only a few minutes to spare . |
| 13 | Lochryan shore sport poor with only a few dogfish from Old House Point and Lefnol . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With the raffle short of a grand by just a few quid , the cry for the remainder went up . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | if you did that in quite a few places |
| 18 | He was alone for just a few minutes and I made my offer . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Detailed experimental analyses of wing-movements during flight are available for only a few species and probably differ in different insects ( Weis-Fogh , 1956a , 1956b ; Jensen , 1956 ; Jensen and Weis-Fogh , 1962 ; Nachtigall , 1966 ; Neville , 1960 ; Vogel , 1966–67 ) . |
| 21 | It is one of only a few products that can run text round an irregular object , although there are restrictions to this . |
| 22 | They are one of only a few companies to offer stair carpeting in a choice of stocked ranges . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Despite having been in the open for only a few seconds , they had been soaked . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 " . |
| 30 | Leave luggage unattended for even a few seconds |