Example sentences of "in a [det] places " in BNC.
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| 1 | This range , although covered by many hundreds of metres of water for most of its length , breaks surface in a few places to form the chain of apparently unconnected volcanic islands . |
| 2 | Sussex heathlands occur on the Lower Greensand in the west and north-west of the county , in the central area of the High Weald on the Hastings Beds , and in a few places on the Downs where there are superficial deposits of acidic soils . |
| 3 | In the meantime , archery had retained its appeal in a few places around the country , two of them being the neighbouring Ayrshire towns of Irvine and Kilwinning , in both of which contests were held annually . |
| 4 | Situated on the turn of the Montagne before it bends around its eastern extremity into Verzy , Villers-Marmery and Trépail — the vineyards of Verzenay have either north or east-facing aspects and are planted up to a height of 220 and , in a few places , 240 metres . |
| 5 | The epidermal cells at this edge generally appear to adhere tightly to one another , although in a few places they are individually rounded up as though less tightly coherent . |
| 6 | In the belt extending from Hoxne to the Orwell estuary the percentage of assessments below £2 hardly exceeded twenty , save in a few places , and overall more were on goods than on earnings . |
| 7 | But in a few places conditions remain unaltered and they suit the original design to perfection . |
| 8 | It is native to Europe and Asia , growing mainly in well-drained ground on hill and mountainsides , and wasteland ; it is naturalized in a few places in Britain and grows well in temperate to warm regions of North America . |
| 9 | In a few places , as in the lower Neretva valley , a breach in the mountain wall permits a gulf of Mediterranean air to penetrate inland , but more commonly the unbroken barrier shuts out the ameliorating influences from the sea . |
| 10 | Carl Watson seems to have misread the bulletin in a few places . |
| 11 | Apart from a few parts which seem to lack any antecedents , it derives variously , but less closely , from the compositions just mentioned , from the lecture on " Greek Music Drama " January 1870 ) , from the fragments on " The Greek State " and , in a few places , from the earlier preface to Wagner . |
| 12 | What many people need is simple self-catering cheap overnight stays , now satisfied in a few places by Youth Hostels but in need of a much more extensive network . |
| 13 | Enthoven himself had urged the case for demonstration projects to " work at it till you work it out well in a few places — till you debug it " ( HSJ 1989 ) . |