Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 2 | I cite only a few . |
| 3 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
| 4 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 5 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |
| 6 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
| 7 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 8 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
| 9 | In Germany solo song was neglected altogether and even the influences of villanella and madrigal penetrated only a few years earlier than in England , in the first place through Lassus and two Netherland protégés of his : Ivo de Vento ( d. 1575 ) and Jacob Regnart ( c. 1540–1599 ) . |
| 10 | Each produces only a few drops of nectar at a time . |
| 11 | Mr. Frisby believes companies often pay little attention to the contract , thinking it involves only a few pence per copy . |
| 12 | Sometimes , even on the strictest of diets , allowing only a few hundred calories per day , it seems impossible to shift even a small amount of weight per week . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the fact that the exhibition was organized to show the successive stages through which Cubism had passed indicates that the painters were attempting to make their work as comprehensible as possible to the public , and their purpose must have been further served by the demonstration of the affinities between Cubism and the more readily understandable paintings of other artists who shared only a few of their pictorial concerns . |
| 14 | White Doves is a Victorian terraced house situated only a few minutes from the famous Minster , in a quiet cul-de-sac . |
| 15 | There must be very few bird reserves situated only a few minutes ' walk from the centre of a town which turn out to be as rewarding as Radipole Lake , another RSPB reserve . |
| 16 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
| 17 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 18 | In 1961 , the President made only a few shadowy and conventional gestures to the black community . |
| 19 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 20 | Fourthly , the field workers were given only a few packets of ORS for distribution among the villagers . |
| 21 | From her sample she recorded 1,964 separate job descriptions in the 1770s and 1780s , yet lists from the late seventeenth century designate only a few hundred . |
| 22 | There were no preparations at Thornfield , and no visits to the Ingram family , who lived only a few miles away . |
| 23 | It was an amazing frosty morning , with a strange , silent mist hanging only a few hundred feet high . |
| 24 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 25 | Beside the skill of the angler , I think most would seriously consider only a few of these factors ; perhaps the location , weather , bait , and a maybe one or two others . |
| 26 | These qualification courses form a greater proportion of the total training carried out by the libraries who listed only a few programmes for 1984/5 ( see Table 9 ) , in general tending to constitute the main type of development training for non-professionals , especially in smaller libraries . |
| 27 | This should need only a few turns |
| 28 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 29 | If this is the case , we would expect to find only a few of the many polymorphisms readily interpretable as responsive to present proximal selective forces . |
| 30 | All too often , a ‘ best of all time show-stopper ’ is difficult to find only a few years after its introduction , superseded by yet another new name . |