Example sentences of "[prep] a few [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I would have a gull and a crow but , whether they were the same species or not , they quickly found out they could n't fly properly — though the twine was long enough in theory — and ended up ( after a few hilariously clumsy aerobatics ) fighting . |
| 2 | After a few highly publicised cases such as Britain 's thalidomide scandal in the 1960s , product-liability laws were strengthened everywhere to make it easier to sue drug companies . |
| 3 | But he refused to take no for an answer and after a few unseemly tussles Sally decided it was easier to give in and let him explore inside the leg of her panties . |
| 4 | Such units , consisting of a few closely related families , contain between a dozen and sixty individuals who live together and cultivate under the direction of their elder , whose chief responsibility is the allocation and control of arable land . |
| 5 | Evolution may not be prompted solely by the reproductive excesses of a few strikingly superior individuals . |
| 6 | It was this challenge which seems to have led him in 1896 to call a meeting in Bride Street , London , of a few carefully chosen colleagues which resulted in the establishment of the International Federation of Ship , Dock and River Workers which was renamed in 1898 the International Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 7 | In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate . |
| 8 | Some have taken the official statistics at their face value and suggested that such violence is the infrequent action of a few psychologically disturbed men . |
| 9 | Classically these crimes have been seen as a result of a few mentally deranged men . |
| 10 | Thus we see in sociology two strikingly different analyses of crimes of violence against women : one in which they are the infrequent consequence of a few mentally deranged men ( which is supported by the low incidence of such crimes in the criminal statistics ) ; and one in which they are an institutionalized set of practices which are part of an overarching system of gender inequality ( in which the low number of convictions for such crimes is merely evidence of the state 's collusion ) . |
| 11 | These will include forms of the verb to be , past tenses of a few highly frequent irregular verbs ( e.g. do , see ) , personal pronouns and negatives . |
| 12 | However , with the possible exception of a few highly collectable older items , it is only important to translate the signatures and inscriptions on masterworkshop rugs , because the work of different weavers can command considerably different prices . |
| 13 | This eventually results in ‘ monopoly capitalism ’ , where economic power is concentrated in the hands of a few very large enterprises . |
| 14 | The aspect of definition in Cézanne 's work , its ‘ measurable ’ quality , is well illustrated by the fact that in one of his later Cubist phases Gris was able to interpret one of Cézanne 's portraits of his wife in terms of a few sharply defined , superimposed planes that capture much of the structural feeling of the original . |
| 15 | Mind you , the combination of a few too many pints before the game and only being able to see about 3/4 of the pitch would n't have made for a very comprehensive report anyway ! |
| 16 | In the modern period capital is instead organized at a national or transnational scale so that the previous ( capitalist ) rationale for sub-national government has withered away , except for a few spatially constrained sectors of capital , such as development interests or companies engaged in extracting mineral resources . |
| 17 | Thank the Lord for a few soberly dressed civilians who actually work . ’ |
| 18 | Except for a few extremely rich Americans ( Gordon Bennett was one ) and a sprig of French nobility they were British and Irish aristos , and landed gentry and army officers . |
| 19 | I decided that I could find space for a few really large trees and decided to stock fence in front of the spinney and put in an oak and two beech and three ash well away from the fence . |
| 20 | If the upkeep of a garden is getting too much for an elderly person , and finance and willing helpers can be found , a suggestion that it should be paved , with a few easily managed tubs of flowers and shrubs at a convenient height , is often an acceptable idea . |
| 21 | The sector called Le Mur du Six can be blitzed ; apart from two or three 6b 's virtually everything is 5c/6a , with a few even easier . |
| 22 | The first was a mistake which , all politicians will tell you , is easily made and relatively simple to correct with a few carefully worded statements and some abuse of the media . |
| 23 | Releasing a collection of radio sessions with a few previously unavailable songs in perfect timing for Christmas does appear to be begging for critical crucifixion . |
| 24 | With a few very distinguished exceptions , the skiing is on the easy side , well suited to beginners who can enjoy the scenic and economic advantages of a single two bar hamlet for the first and only time . |
| 25 | The monkeys are blue and all the facial profiles in the fresco crowds are identical ; the human beings depicted were , with a few very noteworthy exceptions , not shown as individuals . |
| 26 | A small budget might be swallowed up with a few very expensive cases . |
| 27 | We decided we did n't really like a lot of our clothes , so we replaced them with a few very simple things . ’ |
| 28 | Now we were rumbling and petarding up a steep brown-earth road with long , high convent walls on each side , towards a little square with a few dimly lit small shops and pollarded trees like headless ostriches perched on one knobbly leg . |
| 29 | Every State in eighteenth-century Europe , with a few relatively unimportant exceptions , was a monarchy . |
| 30 | But the treatment of the rest of the face is more complex , subtler and more empirical ; it is no longer divided into a few clearly defined sections , and eyes and mouth are not so precisely stylized and deliberately emphasized as they had been before . |