Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adv] a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | This equipment can measure freon concentrations down to just a few parts per trillion . |
| 3 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
| 4 | Weighing in at only a few ounces , you hardly notice that you 're wearing this jacket . |
| 5 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | A large proportion of a corpus is made up of only a few words ( about 25% of a corpus is made up of just 15 different words ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And that was very quick as well , the way you worked it out , it 's not gon na take you long to pile up with quite a few marks on that . |
| 13 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |
| 14 | Then at each level , credit is passed back after just a few attempts at search . |
| 15 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll find out in just a few minutes , ’ Julius replied . |
| 17 | Tickets for the show , which is being backed by the Arts Council , the City Council , and the Merseyside Development Corporation , sold out in only a few hours . |