Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dinah Arkwright had laid her elegant black-gloved hand on the sleeve of a stocky young man with a short beard , whom only a few could name . |
| 2 | Then , very quietly , she said : ‘ What a brave girl you are , Jenny , to cross by those stepping-stones after falling in from them only a few days ago . |
| 3 | I detect no conventional underlying plan : although certain melodic ghosts ( from La Mer , and if I 'm not mistaken from Berg 's Op. 6 Orchestral Pieces ) seem to cry like shags and gannets from the rocks at various locations around the coast , the work really does offer itself as a succession of episodes , most of them only a few bars in length ( the shortest of all is the single bar — string and brass glissandi giving onto flutter-tongue flute with gong — that represents Orfordness ) . |
| 4 | It took me only a few weeks to realise that the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it . |
| 5 | I hardly would — you told me only a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 6 | I could do park parade tha , a girl was , er er anywa , I went in the factory and one of the girls says they were saying about a dance , says ooh I quite a few you ought to see him dance the park parade ! |
| 7 | ‘ If you 've infected me already a few more minutes wo n't make much difference , ’ then grunted with laughter when she hit him . |
| 8 | Can you give me just a few moments ? |
| 9 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
| 10 | The working-class boy who passes the eleven-plus is likely to come from an elementary or primary , school from which only a few pupils each year penetrate the grammar-school world . |
| 11 | It attempts to be a proof that all children can be educated ; yet it is also supposed to form a preparation for higher education to which only a few will aspire . |
| 12 | St. Katherine 's Gardens — once the site of St. Katherine 's Church of which only a few stones now remain . |
| 13 | From being able to cope just about ) with everyday life they were tipped over the edge into breakdown , from which only a few were able to re-emerge . |
| 14 | Through him the notion of the responsible use of power by a divinely ordained ruling class was introduced directly into the educational system , and boys were exposed systematically and en masse to an idea which only a few of them could have been counted on to pick up informally at home . |
| 15 | Growth in the take-home trade — some 15 per cent of all beer sales — in which only a few of the larger independent brewers have national distribution . |
| 16 | Presenting art that reflects or comments on news events or , more broadly , on history , seems to be the new orientation of the Whitney Museum , which only a few years ago was more likely to devote Biennial space to the rising stars of New York 's booming gallery scene . |
| 17 | Many European countries worry that the countries of the former Soviet Union , from which only a few emigrants have escaped since the second world war , could revert to their 19th-century role as big exporters of people . |
| 18 | The subject is now surrounded by a multitude of objects from which only a few can be selected and invested with a sense of self , but Simmel argues that : ‘ our freedom is crippled if we deal with objects that our ego can not assimilate ’ ( 1978 : 462 ) . |
| 19 | After the ups and downs of critical theory and fashion , the pedagogy of literary linguistics is an area into which only a few intrepid explorers have so far dared to venture , and the results here deserve to be widely and warmly welcomed . |
| 20 | ‘ I was amazed , I could get to places with cameras which just a few years ago Russians would n't have been allowed to visit , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Now they 'll train five hours a day at the rink which just a few months ago was forced to close . |
| 22 | Economists and politicians are already celebrating the disappearance of these huge external imbalances — even those who only a few years ago claimed that current-account deficits did not matter . |
| 23 | ‘ He is sick and I can understand that , ’ said Keegan , who only a few weeks ago described Quinn as ‘ the best finisher in football ’ . |
| 24 | The people were so strong in the faith for which their forebears had fought and suffered ; their steadfastness and courage , handed down through the ages , lived on in the men and women who only a few years ago had defied the invader of their homeland . |
| 25 | ( George McCluskey had to settle for a place on the bench , which opened the door for Tom Brown , who just a few months ago was playing Junior football with Glenafton . |
| 26 | Cobalt said to her : ‘ I should think the Post could afford to pay to keep you here a few more days . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Well , all Heather 's friends and relatives have racked their brains for clues as to what might have become of her , as you can imagine , and I remembered her mentioning visiting you here a few months ago . ’ |
| 28 | Before , it gives you quite a few clues to what you may be asked and will help you to present yourself properly and to prepare your answers . |
| 29 | Well you 've heard her on phone , she 's phoned you quite a few times . |
| 30 | Were there quite a few vessels around at that time that were giving assistance ? |