Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Rent a horse or a motor bike and explore on a few leisurely sorties .
2 Because they they 've condensed it and just put in a few little bits and pieces !
3 It left the world unchanged save in a few interesting particulars .
4 A company which does not allow a woman to return to work after maternity leave is regarded ( save in a few exceptional circumstances described in the small print of the legislation ) as having dismissed her .
5 Most of the other stars that are visible to the naked eye lie within a few hundred light-years of us .
6 Scatter with a few crystallised flowers if available .
7 or if we 're stuck get our heads together and drag in a few extra bodies
8 Blend for a few more seconds .
9 Most rely on a few basic chord progressions , eke out their standard 3 minutes 20 seconds with a brief instrumental solo , and close with a bridge passage between two choruses .
10 This stands for Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering and erm under this scheme , a company erm can have a problem tackled by a research student working in a university and erm a supervisor , and indeed in this case , the input , the financial input , by the company may be quite small , may only amount to a few hundred pounds .
11 Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System .
12 The spores do germinate , go through a few perfunctory cell divisions , then give up the ghost .
13 Premiums start at a few hundred pounds for an indemnity limit of £100,000 and rise to tens of thousands for larger international charities .
14 If the MD asks you What if interest rates drop to 6% , you can use the scenario manager to show how the end result would differ from the figures you have calculated — and throw in a few other interest rates as well , just to impress him/her and make that rise you were after a touch more attainable .
15 Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth , they now survive in a few straggling colonies .
16 Their seeds had remained dormant underground for years or come from a few surviving specimens .
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