Example sentences of "to a few [adj] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tyrone , up to a few hundred feet of reddish sandstones occur above a basal conglomerate , and are succeeded by a thin development of argillaceous dolomite , the Upper Permian Magnesian Limestone . |
| 2 | Those scavengers living their entire lives in those caverns underneath Kefalov were merely an extreme example of segmented vision — their whole cosmos reduced to a few cubic kilometres of debris . |
| 3 | This would guarantee " the perfect security of all the principal statesmen in the House from the effects of local or individual prejudices or enmities … [ or ] some accidental offence to a few individual members of a constituency , or some petty and miserable pique " . |
| 4 | Thus it is pointed out that support for microelectronics has been biased towards the south of the country , and it is argued that emphasis on a division between sunrise and sunset , on finance at the expense of manufacturing , on entrepreneurship and new firms as opposed to restructuring existing industries , will all encourage the confinement of the fifth wave of economic growth to a few small areas of the country . |
| 5 | I have omitted , with reluctance , references to a few natural features of interest that have been subject to abuse of privilege by a minority of visitors . |
| 6 | There was a change , though it was difficult to define it , except by reference to a few trivial details of behaviour . |
| 7 | Henry had thought of taking this line , but the trouble was , he found , one became almost too jolly at Donald 's expense , the implication being that he , the jammy bastard , was well off out of it , while they , the real sufferers , were condemned to a few more years of the horrors of living in Wimbledon . |
| 8 | Er oh , before we do that let's just n just listen to a few more seconds of this tape . |