Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , what may look like a good deal now , as the UK emerges from its adjustment period of higher interest rates and recession , could look rather different in a few years ' time . |
| 2 | Leek and potato soup ( £1.55 ) came with excellent bread but would have been less bland with a few spices thrown around ; conversely a fresh off the bone chicken curry ( £3.50 ) could have been enhanced by some fruit . |
| 3 | It is a social ritual , somewhat akin to a few drinks after work . |
| 4 | I was diplomatically ill for a few days and then I returned to my normal work . |
| 5 | Do not be too keen to give praise in this instance , but allow the dog to settle down first for a few moments . |
| 6 | The horizon was a dark terracotta colour , the top of the dying sun just visible for a few seconds before it dropped out of sight and the sky doused the remaining light like a heavy black blanket . |
| 7 | Her XR3i , I calculated , would do me just fine for a few days . |
| 8 | They were usually listless for a few days before they collapsed , breathing with evident difficulty and , in a few cases , discharging a white frothy liquid from their nostrils . |
| 9 | The french windows were still open by a few inches . |
| 10 | This particular defence was optional in the EC Product Liability Directive but has been adopted in the United Kingdom ; it seems sensible because standards of safety change over time and what might seem perfectly acceptable now might be considered grossly unsafe in a few years time . |
| 11 | I know the erm , remarks made about getting extra people to register and to have their green card , I 'm probably one of a few councillors with a green card . |
| 12 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 13 | I was really ill for a few weeks . |
| 14 | At 2200–2400/£1 exchange rates have been fairly steady for a few years . |
| 15 | The necessary trade-off between resolution and penetration limits the maximum depth presently attainable to a few millimetres . |
| 16 | ‘ Sunderland have become increasingly desperate in a few departments . |
| 17 | Pigs are particularly rare at a few settlements . |
| 18 | His body was not as solid and stable as it should be and he was frequently off-line by a few degrees . |
| 19 | Digital Equipment Corp now believes COSE really wants it to join , something it was n't quite sure about a few weeks ago . |
| 20 | Digital Equipment Corp now believes that the Common Open Software Environment crowd really want it to join them , something that it was not quite sure about a few weeks ago . |
| 21 | It was a market town , and once a week it was quite busy for a few hours . |
| 22 | It has been shown that measuring these antibodies to establish the diagnosis of coeliac disease is helpful but not completely reliable as a few cases would be missed . |
| 23 | A couple of years later she had her second baby and again breast-fed for a few months after the birth . |
| 24 | She lay there in the faint moonlit darkness , her face wet from crying , her pulse-rate frantic , completely disorientated for a few seconds . |
| 25 | The flames did help to disperse the fog and also to make the runway more visible , but of course one air field could n't hope to cope with all the 8 Group heavies returning at the same time , and things were pretty chaotic for a few hours . |
| 26 | Although change in weight is very noticeable after a few months or a year , it simply is not detectable by just looking at physical shape on a daily basis . |
| 27 | On 15 December Helen 's baby , a tiny perfect girl , was born , but her labour was long and difficult and she was very ill for a few days after it . |
| 28 | Rot , either in the glue or the wood or both , was only too likely within a few months . |
| 29 | It is very useful for a few enquiries but can not handle a large number , as a series of storage device movements is involved in each search . |
| 30 | These results are , however , probably too optimistic as a few cases of reocclusion by hyperplasia through the mesh have been reported with metallic stents placed either percutaneously or endoscopically ( C Liguory , personal communication ) for postsurgical CBD strictures . |