Example sentences of "with [adv] a few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
2 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
3 | The fact that most of the rainforest is uninhabited , with only a few pockets of indigenous communities , makes exploitation attractive . |
4 | An industrial salesperson who sells into one industry may deal with only a few customers in a restricted geographical area . |
5 | Lochryan shore sport poor with only a few dogfish from Old House Point and Lefnol . |
6 | I choose patterns with only a few passes with the lace carriage because all the time this carriage is in operation no inches ( sorry centimetres ) are being added to the length of the garment . |
7 | The last meeting was held on Oki premises a few weeks ago with only a few friends of the family in attendance . |
8 | Searching a small space , with only a few entities in it , does n't ordinarily feel like a creative process . |
9 | The next day , although three of the team made the descent by mid-afternoon , the rest spent three or four hours walking after dark , with only a few torches between them to light the way . |
10 | If you are a small man , with only a few pounds of surplus weight , and are in a big hurry to lose it . |
11 | With only a few islands of relief the Government did very badly in by-elections front the autumn of 1933 to the spring of 1935 . |
12 | Since 1959 , when the Social Democrats embraced capitalism , German politics has been a large clustering around the centre , with only a few dissenters on the margins . |
13 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
14 | Data on accelerated soil erosion in the tropics is generally derived from small experimental plots , with only a few years of data . |
15 | Now , however , she was dying of tuberculosis and , with only a few weeks of life left , the past was very much on her mind . |
16 | They are distributed in eastern England , particularly Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire , and in Wiltshire , with only a few examples in Kent ( Figure 2.13 ) . |
17 | The couple , who met only seven months ago , first wed in a hush-hush civil ceremony in Los Angeles in April with just a few friends as witnesses . |
18 | With just a few bits of metal and lots of imagination , Meccano addicts can build anything from a replica of Blackpool Tower to a Lancaster bomber . |
19 | Going along as a small independent with just a few programmes to your name does render you relatively powerless . |
20 | The situation was quiet , with just a few soldiers in the street , for the next few days . |
21 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
22 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
23 | You see the Italians when they vote in that referendum , I 've discussed it with quite a few cousins at the time , it was n't they 're exactly |
24 | Many even carry their host specificity to the generic or family level , with quite a few genera of Laboulbeniales restricted to specific genera or families of arthropods . |
25 | While you , Dorothy my dear , started out as a small tub , straight into deep choppy waters , with quite a few holes in the bottom , no rudder , no sails . |
26 | ‘ That 's another thing , ’ Candy continued , far too old a hand at the game to be distracted by such a blatant bid to change the subject , ‘ I 've seen him deep in conversation with quite a few people in the club recently . ’ |
27 | And that was very quick as well , the way you worked it out , it 's not gon na take you long to pile up with quite a few marks on that . |