Example sentences of "may [vb infin] [adv] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carlos Palenque , a mestizo who built up a media empire by getting poor Indians to telephone their complaints to his radio and television shows , may win quite a few votes in the capital . |
| 2 | Compare that to a whole forest in the UK that may contain just a few species . |
| 3 | Other places may contain only a few species , yet the biomass at least at some seasons can be very high ; and this is true of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans . |
| 4 | A piece of handicraft may cost just a few pence in our terms , so where is the virtue in knocking it down any further ? ’ |
| 5 | Beetles , wasps , squirrels etc feed upon the leaves and acorns of the oak ; but a tree that weighs 100 tonnes may produce only a few tonnes of such provender each year . |
| 6 | Yet again , a big , comparatively heavy bait such as a lobworm , on a clean bottom may require only a few inches , for the sheer weight of this bait means the bream has to position himself quite close to it for the suck to be effective . |