Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reduces reporting time to a few days . |
| 2 | By bending the rules which restricted travel to a few miles around Moscow , he had managed to undertake a number of journeys to such places as Samarkand , wonderfully described in his book , Eastern Approaches . |
| 3 | In the pavilion he made a little speech to a few reporters . |
| 4 | They succeed by a greater division of labour , with most volunteers carrying responsibility for generalist advice while referring complex work to a few specialists . |
| 5 | He earned an honest penny by teaching the New Testament to a few undergraduates , who needed to be agile to follow his paradoxes and who found themselves hoeing the weeds when they expected to study St Paul 's Epistle to the Galatians . |