Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [prep] one [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | Reading may be slow as the eyes are able to take in only one short word or a few letters at one glance . |
4 | 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 … ’ |
5 | 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. |
6 | 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 . |