Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the matches are wet , so we cram down a few handfuls of cheese and boiled sweets . |
| 2 | Before concluding I would just like to put down a few words on permission and such like . |
| 3 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 4 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
| 5 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 6 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 7 | Soon the mist grew thicker and he could see only a few feet in front of him . |
| 8 | With only a few islands of relief the Government did very badly in by-elections front the autumn of 1933 to the spring of 1935 . |
| 9 | The DCS200 uses rechargeables , which will last only a few hours per charge . |
| 10 | It has previously been shown that infiltration of lymphocytes in the submucosa occurs within only a few hours after gliadin challenge . |
| 11 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 12 | Only a few hours by train . ’ |
| 13 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 14 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |
| 15 | It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished . |
| 16 | Comrade Chang , the cadre , speaks only a few phrases of English , but seems a very pleasant man . |
| 17 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
| 18 | There were only a few spots of blood and all I could think about was how Mum must n't see them . |
| 19 | Tomorrow morning , just the odd light shower about anywhere , but only a few spots of rain , it wo n't be long before the sun comes out yet again . |
| 20 | At source , a basalt lava may be moving at twenty or more kilometres an hour ; at the far end it may be oozing forward like treacle at only a few metres per hour ; so the temperature of a magma will obviously affect the style of an eruption considerably . |
| 21 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |
| 22 | In this particular case , the porosity is present in basin plain sediments ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) and therefore the potential pay is only a few metres in thickness . |
| 23 | The bipolar outflow model does however raise the question of how molecules can survive in a strong shock in a medium with the extremely high velocity of 1,000km s -1 ( for comparison , the sound velocity in interstellar space is only a few kilometres per second ) . |
| 24 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
| 25 | I saw then , through the one eye that would open , that my fire was scattered , that only a few wisps of smoke rose here and there . |
| 26 | A couple of years ago FAST would get only a few complaints about car boot sales a year . |
| 27 | No camera lens can match the flexibility of the human eye and only a few experiments in stereoscopy attempt two-eyed ( binocular ) vision , essential to true 3-D perception . |
| 28 | In this day and age , 100MB is average , and people quite often discover that they 've got only a few kilobytes of space left , and usually at the most inopportune times . |
| 29 | ‘ Swainmotes ’ were held at Weybridge in Huntingdon Forest at Midsummer , Michaelmas and Martinmas in the middle of the fifteenth century , but only a few presentments of venison trespasses by husbandmen were presented by the foresters before the verderers between 1451 and 1455 . |
| 30 | Signal averaging is a technique used to decrease random noise in the amplified ECG in order to enhance the detection of signals only a few microvolts in amplitude . |