Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turner from St Michael 's Mission to the Blind , who had been attacked by dacoits a few days earlier and left for dead a few miles out of Shwebo . |
| 2 | Close — the pupil sees the choice as between only a few alternative possibilities . |
| 3 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |
| 4 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 5 | Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week . |
| 6 | This feature allows the virus to persist in the environment even though its host , the insect larva , may be present for only a few weeks during the year . |
| 7 | He pointed out the importance of having both long and short term memory — ‘ you do n't want to clutter up your brain with information that is irrelevant long term ’ , he said , giving as an example the way you would look at traffic approaching as you crossed a street — you need to recall the situation for only a few seconds . |
| 8 | If hypnotics are prescribed , enough tablets for only a few nights should be given at any one time and the medication stopped once the period of distress is over . |
| 9 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 10 | A thousand feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be — especially with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand . |
| 11 | Just 1,000 feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be , especially one with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand ! |
| 12 | The embrace lasts for only a few seconds as the eggs are expelled immediately and fertilised by the male . |
| 13 | The Russian Federation is a new state , which has existed for only a few months . |
| 14 | There was little incentive for them to be active in this regard , for only a few high-level headmen received a salary . |
| 15 | Here they had to part with their horses , for of course there could be accommodation for only a few animals in this castle itself . |
| 16 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 17 | Like Trevor , when the other person 's tension breaks and the anger bursts , do you feel any satisfaction or relief within yourself , even for only a few moments ? |
| 18 | As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments . |
| 19 | When the tide springs up the shore the furthest , it also recedes the furthest — uncovering pools which may be accessible by foot for only a few hours each year . |
| 20 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 21 | These played for only a few minutes at a time . |
| 22 | If a dealer has worked in the business for only a few weeks , the client has no way of telling whether he is senior or not , and some licensed dealers have taken advantage of this . |
| 23 | Detailed experimental analyses of wing-movements during flight are available for only a few species and probably differ in different insects ( Weis-Fogh , 1956a , 1956b ; Jensen , 1956 ; Jensen and Weis-Fogh , 1962 ; Nachtigall , 1966 ; Neville , 1960 ; Vogel , 1966–67 ) . |
| 24 | In the first months , when hostilities were expected to last for only a few months , party activity was hardly affected at all . |
| 25 | The Doctor had watched the fight , without interest , for only a few minutes before setting off once again into the surrounding forest of knotted shapes . |
| 26 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |
| 27 | The mines at Sar-i-Sang were situated at over 8,500 feet and could be operated for only a few months in the year . |
| 28 | He had been in the States for only a few months . |
| 29 | Despite having been in the open for only a few seconds , they had been soaked . |
| 30 | A limitation of our study is that we had baseline data on smoking for only a few of the subjects and could not completely control for the potentially confounding effects of cigarette smoking . |