Example sentences of "a few [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still think he was a good investment , BUT if he does n't get 20+ Premiership goals this year I 'll be disappointed ( unless he gets the winner in the FA cup final on bags a few vs Scum ! ! ) |
| 2 | I expect he 'll bounce a few off him . ’ |
| 3 | I took a few off this morning , but you see there 's still a few |
| 4 | There were n't many here , a few along the stream , a dipper flicking white-chested over the water , pigeons clattering out of the fir near the drive , a tangle of hemlock and cow parsley along the fence hiding pheasants . |
| 5 | This is not surprising : even Pilâtre de Rozier , the French balloonist , once filled his mouth with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen with a few to blowing the gases into a flame . |
| 6 | Whether you stand in a pristine lowland rainforest , beside a road or in an urban park , any casual glance towards the earth will quickly pick out ants , from a few to many individuals — and often from several species . |
| 7 | In fact she might even just dream up a few to even up the score a little . |
| 8 | But over the years , the government did little except to remove contaminated soil , even though the trail of dioxin was showing contamination from a few to a several hundred PPB . |
| 9 | Some of the north-facing slopes are less favoured and , while most of the vines are found at a height of between 140 and 180 metres , a few to the east and north of the village grow above 200 metres . |
| 10 | A lot of lads started out here , went to Sarries , a few to Wasps then come home again . |
| 11 | And if you decide to distribute them then you 're going to need to help , so you just give a few to , and a few to you as well , we 'll get them distributed that way . |
| 12 | And if you decide to distribute them then you 're going to need to help , so you just give a few to , and a few to you as well , we 'll get them distributed that way . |
| 13 | He has converted quite a few to Utopianism . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , as railways past prepared to renew their acquaintance with York 's tourist hordes , railways present and future are planning to divert a few onto the TransPennine service into which Teesside is now linked . |
| 15 | ‘ There must have been quite a few since Lucia and Michele . ’ |
| 16 | With your inbuilt tachometer you 've no doubt clocked up quite a few since Seville . ’ |
| 17 | But I think they 've closed a few since then . |
| 18 | No , well I 've meet quite a few since and they 're alright , they come and they go , but , I do n't know |
| 19 | Drive in the spade again , about 2–3 inches ( 5- 8cm ) from the cuttings slit , and lever the soil over tight against the cuttings — check this by taking a few between thumb and finger , and try to lift them : they should be quite firm . |
| 20 | However , there is little else authentically recorded , a strange omission inasmuch as these galleries and a few over the West Yorkshire border are indigenous to this area . |
| 21 | Put a few over there . ’ |
| 22 | Just a few over the winter ? |
| 23 | They 've probably got a few over here |
| 24 | We are now talking a few over there . |
| 25 | If their positions are marked on a map of the island it will be seen that the main concentrations are in the Ardnave-Sanaig area , with a few down the Rhinns to Port Charlotte , another group within the sweep of Laggan Bay and a third near Kildalton . |
| 26 | Interpretation of iconography , the historical context of works , or personal information about sitters for portraits are only a few of the varied topics which can be spelt out in catalogues . |
| 27 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 28 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 29 | Yet there were those who moved easily around the margins , and I am certain the profound effects of this liminal time extended to more than a few of us who made this transition into structural limbo . |
| 30 | ‘ Just a few of the chaps and chapesses , darling , ’ over the phone in the late afternoon when she had purged wine stains and ashtrays , boxed up the empties , made the kitchen immaculate yet again . |