Example sentences of "out [prep] [art] few [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If you leave the vehicle , the heat from the engine soaks into the carb and thaws it out for a few more miles . |
2 | For instance , I Was A Teenage Six Pistol by Glen Matlock ( Omnibus , £12.95 ) is only on the shelves because someone calculated that if one out of every few hundred punk rockers is daft enough to shell out nearly £13 for Matlock 's eye-witness account of the writing of ‘ Pretty Vacant ’ , then they 'll make a small fortune . |
3 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and Distributed Computing Environment boxes on the bids : the Common Open Systems Environment will at least get it back in the running for a $20m deal at Boeing Co that requires Motif and Sun insiders reckon that the company will now include Motif in its price list almost immediately — the best guess is that SunSoft will offer reasonably priced Motif upgrades for Solaris 1 . |
4 | Sun Microsystems has been closed out of a few significant contracts lately because it could n't tick off the Motif and DCE boxes on the bids . |
5 | This collaborative development project , involving most of the original researchers , has been producing training and other materials , trying them out in a few selected authorities , and also extending its dissemination networks in anticipation of the finished products . |
6 | Large particles will fall out within a few hundred kilometres of the detonation site ( the local fallout ) while smaller particles and gaseous radionuclides injected into the troposphere may be transported around the earth in the same hemisphere and between hemispheres by , for example , the East African low-level jet stream ( Findlater , 1974 ) , to be deposited hundreds or even many thousands of kilometres away ( the tropospheric fallout ) . |
7 | They stood gazing out at the few early swallows looping around the hazy , fragrant air . |