Example sentences of "[adv] from a few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat .
2 At the 13th , Woosnam was heckled and a cheer went up from a few spectators as he put his drive into the creek .
3 The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies .
4 It was empty apart from a few chairs and a couple of tables .
5 Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything .
6 Apart from a few Sikhs and a very irritable Hindu from East Sheen , most of the targeted persons seemed quite pleased to be asked .
7 Apart from a few independents and a handful of dissidents the only candidates among whom the elector can choose will be those that the parties have seen fit to put before him .
8 But apart from a few sparrows and a robin redbreast the branches were bare .
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