Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon the mist grew thicker and he could see only a few feet in front of him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
| 5 | No camera lens can match the flexibility of the human eye and only a few experiments in stereoscopy attempt two-eyed ( binocular ) vision , essential to true 3-D perception . |
| 6 | Signal averaging is a technique used to decrease random noise in the amplified ECG in order to enhance the detection of signals only a few microvolts in amplitude . |
| 7 | The opening to the organ is only a few millimetres in diameter , and so it acts rather like a pin-hole camera , but one that focuses infra-red heat radiation instead of light . |
| 8 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
| 9 | On bad days it rains and the mist covers everything in silence — you can see only a few yards in front of you and , if you wander from the road , can easily get lost . |
| 10 | According to Captain Trentham 's report , he was picked up with a single bullet wound in his right hand while lying in the mud only a few yards in front of his own trench . |
| 11 | Only a few acres in extent , shallow , but with superb feeding for trout , the loch is well managed and carefully stocked with both brown and rainbow trout . |
| 12 | Mr Kim , a former dissident who had been jailed by a military regime , was reluctant to pick a fight with the brass after only a few months in office . |
| 13 | I needed to share all your life , not just a few hours in bed every night . ’ |
| 14 | We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase . |
| 15 | REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place . |
| 16 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
| 17 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 18 | He says that although they 're just a few millimetres in size , in a year they 'll be as big as their mother . |
| 19 | There are also a few experiments in Earth geometry that gain from the rapid transfer of data between distant schools . |
| 20 | Spurs ' humiliation was compounded when Lineker mis-kicked wildly a few feet in front of goal and fell flat on his back . |
| 21 | And I now know at least a few words in Greek , Italian and Portuguese ! ’ |
| 22 | I could hardly conceive what it must be like in winter : the incessant darkness ; the piercing cold when the spray froze as it hit the deck and formed great blocks of ice at the bows ; howling gales and never-ending work ; then a few days in port and out to sea again , week after week , month after month . |