Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 2 | Obviously we are not going to cure the blight of centuries in a few years . |
| 3 | Maureen Roberts , the late Director of the Edinburgh Breast Screening Project , observed that screening ‘ is not offering any certainty of cure or normal life to the women who attend , merely a prolongation of years for a few . |
| 4 | As the structure is not a single crystal , the sizes found vary from somewhat greater than a crystallite to diameters of a few millimetres . |
| 5 | The aspect of definition in Cézanne 's work , its ‘ measurable ’ quality , is well illustrated by the fact that in one of his later Cubist phases Gris was able to interpret one of Cézanne 's portraits of his wife in terms of a few sharply defined , superimposed planes that capture much of the structural feeling of the original . |
| 6 | Inflation , if unchecked , can result in economic and social disorder , as conditions akin to hyper-inflation ( a thousand-fold rise in prices over a few months ) make bank savings worthless . |
| 7 | The idea of radical change in terms of a few basic ideas runs through many of the proposals for reform of Spanish government and society made in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as well as those produced by the age of the Enlightenment . |
| 8 | It is still worthwhile building up a stock of components though , and most electronics hobbyists end up with quite a large store of components after a few years . |
| 9 | ‘ Time-lapse ’ , as its name suggests , makes possible recording in bursts of a few frames at variable time intervals so that subjects such as the movement of clouds or the budding of flowers can be studied in speeded-up replay . |
| 10 | Native speakers are accustomed to making a lot of assumptions from a few clues . |
| 11 | They would tour all over the country for wages of a few shillings a week . |
| 12 | If the tapping of telephones of trade unionists in industrial disputes is difficult to justify , even less justifiable is the evidence of the routine and systematic interception of telephones of a few key union leaders . |
| 13 | For common igneous minerals , critical concentrations are very small ( typically 0.002–0.03wt% ) and layers of the order of centimetres to a few metres thick will result . |
| 14 | On Friday we 're playing for a couple of hours with a few suprise guests one had considerably more hair than the rest of the band put together . |
| 15 | One could argue that digital technology is n't the only way to solve a particular circuit problem ; a nifty bit of design work with a couple of op-amps plus a few Rs and Cs can replace a complex digital filter system . |
| 16 | Drilling at Ballantrae by Selection Trust Ltd found disseminated and massive nickeliferous marcasite over widths of a few metres ( MEG 103 ) . |