Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] just a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Small areas of rot can be cut out and filled with two-part epoxy resin , which should give a strong permanent bond , with the advantage that several layers can be applied in just a few hours , and then easily sanded to a fine finish .
2 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 .
3 Investment decisions made by just a few organisations can make or break a Supplier .
4 But most MEPs say the parliament should be in Brussels where they have their offices , and have signed a lease-buy deal on a £171 million debating chamber in Brussels which involves a legal obligation of annual rent of £16.7 million and will now be used for just a few hours each year .
5 To coincide with the Year of the Maze , Chatsworth 's famous yew labyrinth is being opened for just a few days during the year , the next openings being on August 18 and September 15 .
6 Their eyesight can be corrected in just a few minutes by the use of a lasers .
7 as if to mock us , Howe 's remarks preceded the release of the South Korean hostage Do Chae Sung by just a few weeks and the liberation of two French hostages by just over a month .
8 Most of these accidents could have been avoided by just a few minutes extra care .
9 Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen .
10 According to Earth Report ( 1988 ) , some 100 million t of nutrient-rich silt were deposited annually in the pre-Aswan period but is now reduced to just a few tomes per year , necessitating extensive fertiliser use at considerable cost and , presumably , inviting long-term eutrophication problems that characterise many developing countries ( section 6.3.1 ) .
11 But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century .
12 He made me forget everything — even that he belongs to someone else — that he 's going to be married in just a few weeks .
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