Example sentences of "[noun] from a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Oxford in the next round — a chance to avenge that awful 4–1 League cup defeat from a few years back once and for all . |
| 2 | Morrison South was the subject of our most disappointing decision of the year when it became apparent that our continuing effort to sell homes from a few geographically diverse sites in southern California into a very weak market was proving too expensive a strategy . |
| 3 | The regime of the vine and olive is restricted to a zone varying in width from a few hundred metres under Velebit to 30 km ( 18 miles ) near Zadar . |
| 4 | Imagine an African peasant farmer trying to scratch a living from a few unyielding hectares . |
| 5 | However , Gibson had no experience on the Mossie and would have benefited a great deal from a few hours with the PFF Mossie Unit at Warboys — perhaps a couple of low-level bombing attacks on our bombing range . |
| 6 | The duration of obstructive symptoms varied widely with a range from a few weeks to several years . |
| 7 | The continental shelf and deeper sea-bed beyond , to a distance of 300–600km from the shore , have a covering of fine grey glacial mud , forming a layer that varies in thickness from a few metres over active areas of sea-floor spreading to 200km or more in older , more stable regions . |
| 8 | But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’ |
| 9 | Would he ever have got to the Olympics if every time he went to train at his local track he got swamped by the waste from a few thousand local toilets ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm so sad that I missed you , ’ Lubor Ondrus said soulfully , explaining , ‘ I returned only last evening from a few days ’ holiday . ’ |
| 11 | The metropolis also houses a host of smaller patches of urban wasteland from a few hundred square metres to several hectares . |
| 12 | The Buchs site offers large scale production facilities , now approved to GMP standard , manufacturing over 4,000 products in quantities from a few grammes to small tonnage . |
| 13 | Native speakers are accustomed to making a lot of assumptions from a few clues . |
| 14 | Nolan , glowering routinely at Sam from a few feet away , switched his ill-humour to me . |
| 15 | Stonegate Teddy Bears stocks hundreds of different models , ranging in price from a few pounds to around £300 . |
| 16 | Flatbed plotters range in price from a few hundred pounds to several thousand pounds . |
| 17 | The palaeontologist is like a detective trying to reconstruct a full story from a few fragmentary clues . |
| 18 | It did look terribly empty , such a change from a few hours ago when music had filled the air and swaying bodies had danced and laughed and fooled about . |
| 19 | Visually , the body reminds me of a Schecter or Tom Anderson and if it was n't for Aria 's distinctive headstock you 'd be hard pushed to tell this was n't a £1500 guitar from a few feet away . |
| 20 | A PART FROM a few dedicated individuals who preferred to do it the ‘ hard way ’ ( we 'll discuss that in a moment ) , the flying of a model helicopter upside down became possible with the introduction of the ‘ invert switch ’ . |
| 21 | Mark you , I feel that you have to make the effort to go out there and meet the world … 'cause , part from a few stalwart friends , the world does not come to you ! ! |
| 22 | It has been too complacent in collecting large sums of money from a few lucrative inventions , such as the cephalosporin antibiotics , and has not taken on enough risky new ventures . |
| 23 | But over the years , the government did little except to remove contaminated soil , even though the trail of dioxin was showing contamination from a few to a several hundred PPB . |
| 24 | The train brought one or two doubtful comments from a few WSR enginemen about 3822 's abilities with such a heavy train on the line 's hard gradients . |
| 25 | The spread of the habit from a few scattered locations before 1930 to a great many in 1947 was well documented ( Fisher & Hinde , 1949 ; Hinde & Fisher , 1951 ) . |
| 26 | Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing . |
| 27 | If a drug company receives letters of complaint from a few reputable doctors who have prescribed its product , should it then withdraw the product or warn other doctors of the problem ? |
| 28 | There might be the very occasional gift for a personal service , but the bottle of beer from a few householders and especially from the publicans was the only obvious economic transaction , and was rarely ennobled as a ‘ payment ’ for services rendered . |
| 29 | Now he found a young man from a few doors away was home on leave from the Royal Engineers and spent some of his leave with him and some visiting relations , as men on leave were expected to do . |
| 30 | You will remember that : ‘ The speed speechreader wants to know the answer , not how he arrived at it … he pieces together the sense from a few fragments . ’ |