Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [adv] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all of this for just a few pounds . |
| 2 | She put her hands against her face , thinking , ‘ I shall stand this for only a few seconds more , then I shall leave . ’ |
| 3 | You will find this with quite a few fish — pairs squabble but groups of three or more are fine . |
| 4 | The fact that it is impossible to borrow words from one language to another with exactly the same form and meaning means all such systems are a compromise . |
| 5 | The tall man opened the hold and Hitch peered down into it , glancing at dozens of crates all of roughly the same size . |
| 6 | It was close enough to use the under-arm style , and the pebbles I 'd selected were all of roughly the same size , so my fire was very accurate : four shots within splashing distance and a fifth which smashed the neck off the bottle . |
| 7 | The bride 's mother takes her seat last of all with only a few minutes to spare . |
| 8 | if you did that in quite a few places |
| 9 | As ever , we must balance the temptation to introduce such rights willy-nilly against the unreasonable cost burden that might rest increasingly on employers , especially those with only a few employees . |
| 10 | A few of our competitors have decided to launch similar plans to our own at roughly the same time so this causes considerable interest in these products particularly among family finance journalists . |
| 11 | And when in 1937 a questionnaire was distributed to authors about their attitude towards the Spanish Civil War , he sent the reply ( which he said that he never expected to be published ) that , " While I am naturally sympathetic I still feel convinced that it is best that at least a few men of letters remain silent " . |