Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun pl] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Age Concern expressed reservations in its response to the Griffiths Review of Community Care that contracts for certain services might prove unprofitable to private sector providers after a few years , by which time District Health Authorities would have divested themselves of the resources to provide similar services . |
| 2 | It consists mostly of plain four-storey brick warehouses with a few more ornate buildings among them . |
| 3 | This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time . |
| 4 | It helps if you both keep independent jealousy logs for a few weeks beforehand . |
| 5 | Slow retrieval speed has led to a partial withdrawal of relational database systems in a few organisations as well as the late appearance of commercial relational DBMS which came many years after their research counterparts . |
| 6 | Here the engineers have to carry out most of their work on Sundays when traffic is light , but this often entails diversions and extended journey times followed by temporary speed restrictions for a few further days at the beginning of each week . |
| 7 | Statistical packages will now perform a battery of sophisticated multivariate analyses that reduce unwieldy correlation matrices to a few succinct dimensions . |
| 8 | What makes them wait in seedy side rooms for a few moments of dangerous pleasure ? |
| 9 | Fired by the skills of Steve Davis , I 'll go along to one of the local snooker halls for a few frames . |
| 10 | According to Ms Fearnley , the concentration of listed audit clients among a few firms could present difficulties . |
| 11 | None of them ever enlivened maths lessons with a few handy hints about alternative sexuality . |