Example sentences of "just a few [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | While our friends have made their new houses look good in just a few hours with a lick of paint , we 've had to put up new ceilings , repair skirting boards and hack off layers of old tiles . |
2 | Now , for just a few minutes at a time , focus on this image — and stir in desire . |
3 | This is just a few lines to a friend or relative without any complaints in it . |
4 | At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest . |
5 | Marion Howells and her daughter Kayleigh were asleep just a few feet from a window which was shattered by the blasts . |
6 | Drums of radioactive waste stored just a few feet behind a fence that seperates the Harwell site from a public footpath . |
7 | Once he went below , if she turned the boat in that direction , just a few degrees at a time , would he notice ? |
8 | Big undertakings like Sheffield and Worth only required twenty or thirty men each , and of course for just a few weeks at a time . |
9 | As a consequence of casual labour the actual take-home pay , irrespective of the rate of payment , could be pitifully small , ranging from just a few coppers in a month to the best wages of all the men on the machines and , top of the league , the head dresser . |
10 | These are just a few examples of a wide range of security problems that can be encountered in the many disciplines of IT system development and operation . |
11 | The structured the structured thought patterns gave me an actual er organisation to my talk be it only just a few words on a piece of paper it was simple yet er gave the organisation to the actual talk while you stood up in front of an audience . |