Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females , but with species such as fur seals , the harems can be huge — up to one hundred females . |
| 2 | Even the currently flourishing Pinnacle Distribution did a kamikaze act just a few years ago , decimating the indie scene . |
| 3 | It helps to ask the client 's permission to jot down a few facts . |
| 4 | Her eyes lifted from the books before her on the desk to the tall , powerful figure standing just a few feet away . |
| 5 | One point to remember , incidentally , is that in those days all recordings were played at 78 rpm , so each side ran only a few minutes . |
| 6 | The horse jumped forward a few paces with his limbs bunched up and then , holding himself for a brief moment in a static rear , galloped off in sheer terror down the path . |
| 7 | This leap into the future comes only a few months after the dest … ruction by fire of — ’ |
| 8 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 9 | The answer to this question has not a few repercussions in the social world that sociologists study — often for purely secular reasons . |
| 10 | However , many of them show random variations in brightness lasting only a few months or , on occasion , days . |
| 11 | Then Dratslinger 's howling lamentarion screamed out a few chords , Tumblejack began to give tongue like an animal in severe affliction , and the true invocation began . |
| 12 | Yet their death by chainsaw took only a few moments . |
| 13 | In one instance , a young pilot started a launch with another glider standing only a few yards to the side and just ahead of the take-off point . |
| 14 | The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu . |
| 15 | Because this is England 's last match for at least 3 ½ months , Robson had to balance his desire to try out a few options with the need to retain the basic framework of his World Cup team . |
| 16 | The year 's prize crisis occurred just a few days later , when the German battleship Leipzig visited the city . |
| 17 | SMALL investors could use any spare cash to pick up a few holdings in carefully chosen smaller companies . |
| 18 | The leader let off a few rounds which went bellowing over our heads . |
| 19 | A rifle through old issues of NME during the Baker era reveals only a few features here and there : his singles reviews columns remain legend in the NME office to this day , but Baker was never the interview machine that , say , Tony Parsons or Paul Morley were . |
| 20 | A suitable kit includes just a few sheets of basic information about collecting children from playgrounds , marking registers , assembly times , break times , discipline and marking policies , a list of staff and their responsibilities and a sketch map locating various key areas in the school — particularly the location of the staff toilets ! |
| 21 | Coventry is the home of several major attractions including the world famous Museum of British Road Transport located only a few minutes drive away near the city centre . |
| 22 | Drums of radioactive waste stored just a few feet behind a fence that seperates the Harwell site from a public footpath . |
| 23 | Since the whole process took only a few seconds for each blank and the woman was working full-time it could not be denied that this woman knew , from her own sensory experience , a great deal about the making of magnets . |
| 24 | Nesad Causevic , a policeman , was changing shift last November when a grenade blew up a few metres from his car . |
| 25 | Where tropical forest grew only a few years ago , a vast desert is now rapidly engulfing inland Brazil spreading at a rate of several miles a year . |
| 26 | Found on rocky coastal areas , younger wrasse live only a few metres deep , while larger specimens can be found deeper than 15 metres . |
| 27 | The case study is based on an actual consumer behaviour investigation carried out a few years ago by a leading market research agency . |
| 28 | Mr Bangemann 's intervention comes only a few weeks after Mr Major accused the President of the German Bundesbank , Helmut Schlesinger , of sabotaging the pound . |
| 29 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 30 | The assault came only a few hours after Gorbachev had reassured a Federation Council meeting in Moscow that force would not be used . |