Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
2 | Perhaps a few examples of Smithsonian directors ' thinking in rejecting and accepting material , or even releasing items in the collections , might throw light on the subject . |
3 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
4 | Only a few leaders like Lenin denounced the entire conflict as an imperialist war , useful only in hastening the terminal crisis of capitalism . |
5 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
6 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
7 | Soon the mist grew thicker and he could see only a few feet in front of him . |
8 | With only a few islands of relief the Government did very badly in by-elections front the autumn of 1933 to the spring of 1935 . |
9 | The DCS200 uses rechargeables , which will last only a few hours per charge . |
10 | On the evening of 13 May , only a few hours after Macmillan 's departure a visitor arrived at 5 Corps headquarters at Klagenfurt . |
11 | It has previously been shown that infiltration of lymphocytes in the submucosa occurs within only a few hours after gliadin challenge . |
12 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
13 | Only a few hours by train . ’ |
14 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
15 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
16 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |
17 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
18 | It 's only a few minutes by air , ’ he explained when she looked astonished . |
19 | Comrade Chang , the cadre , speaks only a few phrases of English , but seems a very pleasant man . |
20 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |
21 | Digital Equipment Corp is only a few strides behind IBM Corp in the concept of clustering workstations to create highly parallel configurations . |
22 | While this strategy may be appropriate for a ‘ mission area ’ where only a few pockets of Christians are to be found and they have to decide between going to one place at the expense of another , it must be applied rather differently in a situation where the Church has extensive geographical coverage . |
23 | There were only a few spots of blood and all I could think about was how Mum must n't see them . |
24 | Tomorrow morning , just the odd light shower about anywhere , but only a few spots of rain , it wo n't be long before the sun comes out yet again . |
25 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
26 | At source , a basalt lava may be moving at twenty or more kilometres an hour ; at the far end it may be oozing forward like treacle at only a few metres per hour ; so the temperature of a magma will obviously affect the style of an eruption considerably . |
27 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |
28 | In this particular case , the porosity is present in basin plain sediments ( Clark and Tallbacka 1980 ) and therefore the potential pay is only a few metres in thickness . |
29 | He played only a few times for Clarke 's side before leaving to join the United All-England XI upon its formation in 1852 . |
30 | The bipolar outflow model does however raise the question of how molecules can survive in a strong shock in a medium with the extremely high velocity of 1,000km s -1 ( for comparison , the sound velocity in interstellar space is only a few kilometres per second ) . |