Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will , therefore , focus on only a few aspects , namely : primary insider trading , secondary insider trading ( tippee trading ) , tipping , and counselling and procuring others to commit an offence under the Act . |
| 2 | In sum , as societies become industrialized , so the family loses its range of functions and comes to concentrate on only a few . |
| 3 | Most early red-figure appears on only a few shapes : cups , and pots like the one-piece amphora ( figs. 86–7 ) , in which much of the pot was traditionally black and the extension of that to the background of the picture was an easy step and one which integrates the picture more fully with the pot . |
| 4 | Typically , councillors are part-time and serve on only a few committees . |
| 5 | A long time later , or perhaps only a few seconds , she thought she saw her father 's face white as paper , floating among the clouds , then it dissolved into the face of an elderly stranger bending over her . |
| 6 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |
| 7 | Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface . |
| 8 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 9 | Perhaps only a few applied for this job . |
| 10 | There is then a pause of perhaps only a few seconds , a semaphore drops , a gleaming red light changes to green , and the long goods train moves out on its journey . |
| 11 | Potentially , RISC programs may have an even larger number of calls since the complex instructions found in CISCs are subroutines in RISC I. Thus the procedure call must be as short as possible , perhaps only a few jumps . |
| 12 | Furthermore only a few days later , 20th July 1757 , a new lease was made out to Thomas Gunson the treasurer , all of the others ( including a new name , that of George Frears ) having sold out to him for , and in consideration of the princely sum of five shillings ! |
| 13 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 14 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 15 | The details of this analysis of pyroclastic deposits are rather complex , so only a few of the more interesting aspects will be described here . |
| 16 | A second useful way of dating is through overstrikes , but these occur in only a few instances . |
| 17 | A car radioed in only a few minutes ago . |
| 18 | However , these were frequently in technical language and sold in only a few outlets ; and many clergy were not concerned with encouraging the laity to grapple with complex issues . |
| 19 | he wrote in only a few important imitative leads — bars 17–18 , 25–26 , 30–34 and 97–105 — which suggests that the composer had yet to commit the remainder to paper . |
| 20 | Some of these longer spinelets end in only a few points , others are shorter more rugose with a multipointed crown . |
| 21 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 22 | If two of you regurgitate the notes perfectly generally in line with answering the question but then one of you brings in only a few sentences saying , well this could be accounted for with di dum di dum or , if we think about learning and er behaviourism , this has something to say about that . |
| 23 | ‘ Euthanasia is seen as part of good terminal care , practised in only a few cases , the less the better , ’ said Prof Borst-Eilers . |
| 24 | Generally , women become familiar quickly with the scent of their infants , and can recognise their baby by smell alone only a few days after birth . |
| 25 | Er … yes , perhaps just a few more condom and illicit sex gags turned up in that show than normal . ’ |
| 26 | If you were to examine the work you may not find any faults , or perhaps just a few minor ones which ‘ do n't really matter ’ . |
| 27 | James , Alice and Alfred hurried in guiltily a few minutes later , glaring at each other for being thrust into proximity , the former carrying bread and milk for dinner , and the latter clutching a treasure trove of samphire as a peace offering . |
| 28 | Okay let's see your essays spend er twenty or thirty minutes talking about the essays and the remainder of the tutorial talking about er the exams because this is the last time I see you before your exams in the tutorial anyway erm so just a few hints and tips on exam technique . |
| 29 | So just a few ideas , not let you know exhaustive but a few ideas to be aware of you 've got appropriate . |
| 30 | Soon they were airborne , the dragon skimming along easily a few feet from the floor and leaving a billowing cloud of dust in its wake . |