Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] just a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
2 | Behind the retina is a cascade of other cells , neurones , which are all physiologically of just a few types . |
3 | ‘ The director wants to see you right away , Marianne , and Dane asked me to tell you he 'll be down in just a few minutes , Shae , to finish off his costume fitting . ’ |
4 | This equipment can measure freon concentrations down to just a few parts per trillion . |
5 | A pond that is iced over for just a few days will come to no harm , but in a prolonged freeze , the fish may suffer unless you take precautions . |
6 | Yet , when the time comes for a hermit crab to change shell , having outgrown its present one , it can accomplish the change over in just a few seconds . |
7 | REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place . |
8 | ‘ It may be impossible for him to get home in just a few months . ’ |
9 | The approaches to market segmentation referred to above apply more naturally to consumer markets than to industrial markets , where an entire market may be made up of just a few customers . |
10 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
11 | Then at each level , credit is passed back after just a few attempts at search . |
12 | ‘ You 'll find out in just a few minutes , ’ Julius replied . |
13 | Instead of being admitted for the night , she 'll be here for just a few hours . |
14 | Maintaining that calm , uncaring façade even for just a few minutes had taken a lot out of her , and she felt the faint beginnings of a headache behind her eyes . |
15 | He 'd first appeared a few months earlier for just a few minutes . |
16 | Sometimes within just a few minutes of the arrival of leaf-eating creatures , the tannin content is up to levels which make not only the leaves under attack , but all the other leaves of the tree toxic or at least unpalatable . |
17 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dana ? ’ she asked , feeling as if she had run a mile instead of just a few feet . |