Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 2 | Of the rest of the text only a few small fragments survive . |
| 3 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 4 | Menem , who had accepted Yoma 's resignation only a few days before , had been forced to suspend her from her post in March when a report by a Spanish investigative judge , hearing evidence in the Spanish capital , Madrid , accused her of being part of an international drug laundering ring . |
| 5 | It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres . |
| 6 | Since the Bölkow is designed to go places — Nigel had returned from Cannes only a few days before my flight — this is a most useful addition allowing the relaxed study of maps , approach plates etc , without the constant monitoring of the aeroplane . |
| 7 | " Potentates , diplomatists and militarists made this war " , claimed the most important and vocal British radical group of this kind only a few weeks after the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 8 | By contrast only a few reptiles , like tortoises and iguanas , are herbivores . |
| 9 | Meanwhile in the supermarket car park only a few hundred yards from the scene of the rape , women expressed their shock at what had happened : |
| 10 | Nevertheless , they caused concern among employees , especially in sections of the new set-up that had been hard hit in the recession only a few years before . |
| 11 | It was not likely that a man who had come to Germany only a few weeks before would be given carte blanche to say what he liked . |
| 12 | Referee Jimmy Johnston had given a general warning about foul play only a few minutes earlier . |
| 13 | After managing to hold out for several months against Paul 's pressurising , she had agreed to the engagement only a few days before this trip . |
| 14 | Hector McDarroch , on the other band , seemed to take a pleasure in showing off his grisly implements , filling the long-needled syringe right in front of my eyes and squirting the cocaine ceilingwards a few times before he started on me . |
| 15 | All are small islets only a few thousand square metres in extent , which support a few Shetland sheep , a sizable common seal population and a few birds . |
| 16 | Then he sprang , bearing her down into the trampled snow only a few paces from Yet 's body . |
| 17 | Signal averaging is a technique used to decrease random noise in the amplified ECG in order to enhance the detection of signals only a few microvolts in amplitude . |
| 18 | In the seventeenth century a weaver called Buffarot led a local revolt , and was broken on the wheel only a few metres from where we 're sitting . ’ |
| 19 | I went there and found the beach exactly as described , with the clear and tranquil pond only a few yards behind the choppy sea . |
| 20 | But to all West Germany 's neighbours , the idea of a German military force only a few years after the defeat of Hitler s armies was still repugnant . |
| 21 | Support for it has come from the observation that both the brain and the conventional digital computer ( i.e. the one hard-wired only for its machine code ) seem to be surprisingly homogeneous in their internal structure , which led to remarks like Newell 's ( 1973 ) ‘ … intelligent behaviour demands only a few very general features in the underlying mechanism ’ . |
| 22 | Small parties seem to serve their members better when food patches are found for in larger units only a few of the animals present could then be fed ( Dunbar 1977 ) . |
| 23 | This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later . |
| 24 | I 've known him since our youth days and we became quite friendly when we were picked to play for Scotland 's Under-20 side together a few years back . |
| 25 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 26 | Curl your toes back and with tummy pulled in , raise both arms towards your toes , lifting your head and shoulders only a few inches off the floor . |
| 27 | With excellent huts only a few hours walk from our tent and the possibility of traversing passes between them , we were spoilt for choice . |
| 28 | In the decades before Emancipation only a few isolated individuals had carried dissent to the point of revolutionary commitment . |
| 29 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 30 | If the spider is not to be seen , try tapping the web gently a few times . |