Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Potato brown rot has only affected a few tonnes on one farm so far … but experts are keeping their eyes on it . |
| 2 | It varies in height from a few inches to two feet depending on the habitat . |
| 3 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 4 | Reading may be slow as the eyes are able to take in only one short word or a few letters at one glance . |
| 5 | Simple renal cysts were defined as one or a few cysts of 0.2 cm in diameter or more that did not result from adult polycystic disease , medullary cystic disease , or pyelogenic cysts . |
| 6 | Indeed he himself added a footnote to the paragraph quoted above : ‘ I was informed , however , that there were a few cockatoos at one spot on the west of Bali , showing that the intermingling of the productions of these islands is now going on … ’ |
| 7 | A lot of small codling in the Menai Straits , plus a few dabs to 1 lb at Port Dinorwic and Beaumaris . |
| 8 | No you can all you can do is just learn a few each day or learn some patterns so that you can get quite a few words in one go and sort of learn some tricks like guessing well we 'll we 'll try with a C. |
| 9 | It was just a few days after eight children from the W family from South Ronaldsay had been taken into care . |
| 10 | Hervey probably died a few days before 7 February 1277 . |
| 11 | Laurence del Brok probably died a few days before 25 December 1274 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd settle for a few years with four legs like a cheetah and be able to go at forty miles an hour , ’ Otley declared . |
| 13 | During the dispute in 1984 , striking miners travelling in convoy on the motorway in Nottinghamshire were stopped within a few miles of four collieries . |
| 14 | Expel a few drops of 3:1 fixative ( methanol:glacial acetic acid ) from another fine pipette whose tip is brought just over the microdrop containing the egg . |
| 15 | Bottlenose dolphins have a heart rate of 80–90 beats per minute just after ‘ blowing ’ , slowing within a few seconds to 33–45 beats per minute and remaining at that rate until the next blow . |
| 16 | The mothers talking in this book are mainly in their mid to late teens , with children whose ages range from a few months to four years . |
| 17 | He turned side-on to the enclosure and watched the low defensive wall as he walked steadily along the edge of the trees , a few paces in one direction , then the other . |