Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | His flailing tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them on the earth . |
2 | Because the cell was designed for only half-a-dozen prisoners , perhaps a hundred of the captives died in the night , and in later decades all Englishmen in India remembered the Black Hole of Calcutta as a dreadful atrocity . |
3 | The sauropods instead had teeth in the front with only a few at the sides . |
4 | These are only a few of the choices before them , but even these are very difficult to prioritize and at times some of them must be sacrificed at the expense of others in this play . |
5 | Although only a few of the sources of political controversy of the time have been touched upon , enough has been said to demonstrate that people could not be immune from the implications of political decisions taken at Westminster or St James 's . |
6 | This book has discussed only a few of the innovations we shall have to assess in the next five years or so . |
7 | Only a few of the particles fed into the SPS actually collide ; the remainder just fly past each other . |
8 | This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) . |
9 | Only a few of the errors are of the same kind as spelling or typing errors . |
10 | Again , as one member of staff said , ‘ only a few of the girls complain in any one class ’ . |
11 | This section covers only a few of the documents published over the past hundred years on the geology of the Channel bed , including a few relating to the 1970s project which seems particularly relevant today . |
12 | Only a few of the surveys of homeless mentally ill people have inquired about any history of psychiatric treatment . |
13 | And that 's only a few of the things that 'll be making their Megatape debuts on the front cover of COMMODORE FORCE ! |
14 | Only a few of the diplodocuses survived . |
15 | Small parties seem to serve their members better when food patches are found for in larger units only a few of the animals present could then be fed ( Dunbar 1977 ) . |
16 | Over the years ‘ Mods and Rockers ’ , ‘ Hell 's Angels ’ , ‘ Skinheads ’ , ‘ Rude Boys ’ , ‘ Romantics ’ , ‘ Neo-Romantics ’ and ‘ Punks ’ were only a few of the pieces in an ever-changing cultural jig-saw . |
17 | These were only a few of the paradoxes of Baldwin 's life and character . |
18 | Only a few of the rabbits remained above ground . |
19 | Job costing , fee assessment , cash-flow forecasting and staff motivation are only a few of the requirements of a successful practice manager . |
20 | A limitation of our study is that we had baseline data on smoking for only a few of the subjects and could not completely control for the potentially confounding effects of cigarette smoking . |
21 | Although all departments were represented , only a third of the members were departmental heads . |
22 | The activities of the chains , however , meant that only a third of the mornings still published in 1988 were in the same ownership as in 1945 . |
23 | Yet this modest advance in steam conditions was approached late and with circumspection : the sets on order for the whole of the 1950s commissioning programmes remained mainly the 30MW and 60MW sizes , and only a third of the sets adopted the more advanced steam conditions . |
24 | As it is , only a third of the pups will survive to become one year olds and females are only mature sexually after five years with the males usually holding territories after ten years . |
25 | There are three polarisation states for deuterium nuclei , so only a third of the atoms in unpolarised deuterium will line up perpendicular to the magnetic fields . |
26 | Here are just a few of the projects , large and small , which are reducing the Cost of Quality in C&P . |
27 | Money is needed , for playing fields , swimming pools , tennis courts , sports halls , coaching and international competition , to name just a few of the calls on far too limited resources . |
28 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
29 | Call for details of treatments , long hair dressing , wedding preparation and image consultancy — just a few of the services on offer . |
30 | Loneliness , fragile health and homelessness are just a few of the problems they face without our help . |