Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were as usual only a few lone silent figures , sitting in isolation . |
| 2 | Coral polyps are each only a few millimetres across but working together in colonies , they have produced the greatest animal constructions the world had seen before man began his labours . |
| 3 | The idea that supermarkets should be built on green field sites out of town rather than in the High Street would have seemed absurd only a few years ago . |
| 4 | An example on English provincial home ground of the type of short-cut activity imported into Ulster was the planting of drugs by policemen in Liverpool which was exposed by Radio Merseyside in 1971 only a few months before the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ . |
| 5 | There were also some comments about homosexual authors and a few feeble attempts to refute allegations about Labour authorities — not that Labour authorities had not promoted homosexuality , but that only a few had and they had not spent millions of pounds doing it . |
| 6 | Thus , Beed has claimed that ‘ since ownership is very widely dispersed … either it could mean , with Berle and Means , that no one individual or small group could gain sufficient votes for control , or , contradicting Berle and Means , that only a few per cent of votes was required for control ’ . |
| 7 | I saw then , through the one eye that would open , that my fire was scattered , that only a few wisps of smoke rose here and there . |
| 8 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
| 9 | Society responds with oppression , which it justifies by again invoking myths , scriptures ( quoted or misquoted ) and proverbs , some ancient and some only a few years old , thrown up by the needs of everyday life . |
| 10 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 11 | However , one local authority should not receive double the amount of grant received by another only a few miles away for the provision of exactly the same level of service , which is the case at the moment . |
| 12 | Marion Howells and her daughter Kayleigh were asleep just a few feet from a window which was shattered by the blasts . |
| 13 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
| 14 | He poured the wine and Robyn gradually , inch by inch , moment by moment , found herself slowly beginning to relax , to actually feel comfortable in her surroundings — something she would have thought impossible only a few minutes ago . |
| 15 | These things happen , he said as we were driving along , he 'd done something similar only a few weeks earlier , and he was used to being woken up by the police at 2 o'clock in the morning to rescue deer on the estate . |
| 16 | The moorland and seemingly endless miles of coastal path ( accessible only a few yards from the hotel ) beckon many walkers . |
| 17 | The landscape in this area of south-east Cambridgeshire and north-east Hertfordshire is certainly very different from that in Fig 7 only a few miles to the south-east ; until the nineteenth century it was a land of open fields . |
| 18 | The emerging feelings bubbled to the surface in the unlikely setting of the Route 66 pub in Darlington on Friday , February 7 just a few days after they met . |
| 19 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
| 20 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 21 | But while Kaohsiung 's attention to quality is not unique to Yamaha ( and we should n't forget that lower rejection rates also benefit the manufacturer , translating into lower cost per unit ) , their pioneering attitude , honouring quality above all else , has helped raise the standard of Far Eastern guitars to levels which would have been unthinkable only a few years ago . |
| 22 | Of these only a few are not currently employed by one or other of the companies . |
| 23 | Emily drank the tea , suddenly aware of the incongruity of the situation : here she was , sitting in the kitchen like one of the servants , something that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago . |
| 24 | Or were these just a few isolated sadists ? |
| 25 | I never forgot his face , and sure enough a few nights later his aircraft was one of those that failed to return . |
| 26 | Iraq is after all only a few hundred miles from the Soviet Union 's own ( Muslim-dominated ) southern border . |
| 27 | Yet by 1962 the population was no more than 5,000 and by 1976 only a few dozen . |
| 28 | It really is a multi-million pound industry … convincing people they could look better just a few pounds or stones lighter and this is how to do it . |
| 29 | But erm anyway that 's it 's all it 's all now a few a few months ago . |
| 30 | Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in . |