Example sentences of "just a few [noun pl] of the " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes within just a few minutes of the arrival of leaf-eating creatures , the tannin content is up to levels which make not only the leaves under attack , but all the other leaves of the tree toxic or at least unpalatable .
2 He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year .
3 These are just a few examples of the types of products that can be found within the leading farm shops in Surrey who will also be exhibiting , including Secretts from Milford .
4 These are just a few examples of the use of modern biological control agents , though as Jutsum ( 1988 ) points out , the commercial value of these is currently less than 1 per cent of the global market value of crop-protection and public health agents ( mainly chemicals ) which currently amounts to $16 000 million annually .
5 Doctors ' desires to advance specialisms that they find intellectually exciting , university lecturers pursuing research at the expense of their teaching commitments , engineers wishing to develop technologically advanced products such as Concorde , are just a few examples of the kind of professional aspirations that lead to the misallocation of resources from the clients ' or taxpayers ' point of view .
6 Here are just a few examples of the rave reviews they got this year :
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