Example sentences of "[noun pl] to a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statistical packages will now perform a battery of sophisticated multivariate analyses that reduce unwieldy correlation matrices to a few succinct dimensions . |
| 2 | I do n't remember ever being afraid , and I would boast of my nocturnal activities to a few close friends , who were duly impressed . |
| 3 | For lasers based on atomic transitions , this limits the available wavelengths to a few discrete lines , and even for molecular liquid dye lasers the practical tuning range for a given dye is limited to about 50 nm . |
| 4 | The lifetimes of DNA messages ( give or take a few mutations ) are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years ; or , in other words , ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes . |
| 5 | Armed with a basic knowledge of the major compositional schemes , the prospective collector or student should be able to recognize many of the more distinctive contemporary rugs and limit the less obvious ones to a few possible sources . |
| 6 | I have omitted , with reluctance , references to a few natural features of interest that have been subject to abuse of privilege by a minority of visitors . |
| 7 | Hence , Herring et al. ( 1988 ) described the design of SQL extensions to a new object-oriented GIS ; Abel ( 1988 ) has reported work on the creation of SQL-based spatial extensions to a relational database in the ‘ Spatial Information in a Relational Open-architecture database management system ’ ( SIRO-DBMS ) project ; and Ingram and Phillips ( 1988 ) have designed spatial extensions to a hybrid GIS data model . |