Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their front end has a mouth below and a few light-sensitive spots above so that the animal can be said to have the beginnings of a head . |
| 2 | So I boiled them in pan for the dog and I put some taters in and a few peas and carrots sort of thing and some Oxos and made him a r a right good dinner . |
| 3 | Forays had been made at night ; scaffolding had been torn down and a few workers employed in building Carewscourt had been killed . |
| 4 | After five minutes or so and a few shaky moments in some bankside undergrowth , a huge koi graced my net which when put on the scales went a shade over 15lb . |
| 5 | It does n't take long and a few minutes trying things out could mean hours saved later and some useful space where you have used up some leftover yarns . |
| 6 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 7 | Given that conditions had changed greatly in forty years , and that ‘ the right to know ’ had in every walk of life assumed paramount importance , it seemed nevertheless unrealistic — even allowing for the vastly different scale of the conflict — for relatives of servicemen to protest at lack of information over but a few days or even hours . |
| 8 | In 1951 , for example , the Boards had been asked by the Minister to cut their spending on rural electrification , and most did so ; the South Western Board , by contrast , pressed on and a few years later were praised by the same Minister for pursuing this uneconomic development . |
| 9 | And most of those who do will only try it once or a few times . |
| 10 | So I took this Whitley up for 10 , 15 maybe 20 minutes and just made quite sure that all the engines were running perfectly , made a spot check on each engine and tested its flying capabilities — hands off and a few simple things in everyday testing . |
| 11 | Finally , a note to those contemplating summer glacier skiing : get up early and a few glorious runs of spring snow will make it all worthwhile . |
| 12 | Being a bright lad , he worked out that it was an updraught from underground and a few removed boulders later the entrance to Lancaster Hole was revealed . |
| 13 | Lexandro grinned wildly , for within but a few more weeks he was to have holes drilled through his carapace so that he could jack in to power armour . |
| 14 | I think the moon must have got up and a few silvery shafts were getting through the small fanlight . |
| 15 | Smoke billowed out and a few snowflakes fluttered into the car . |
| 16 | As I watched , one of the engines cut out and a few seconds later I heard and saw the explosion , two or three streets away . |
| 17 | See , and I 've helped Kenny out and a few the lads before and like we always finish it that 's why I come this cellar Barry . |
| 18 | A few fought back and a few folks died , |
| 19 | Four years and two months ago or a few months but the gas man sort of found it dangerous . |
| 20 | I could train birds on the bitter bead , shock them , either immediately or a few minutes after training , and compare the biochemistry in the birds which had tasted the bead but forgotten the association with that in the birds which had tasted and remembered the bead . |
| 21 | The only difference between Tina Turner today and a few years ago is her material . |
| 22 | There are about 156,000 black-and-whites today and a few of the Swedish animals have been exported to Finland , Greece , Spain and Portugal . |
| 23 | A quarter of an inch in the waist here and a few millimetres on a horn there is often the extent of it . |
| 24 | So they climbed it together — a touch of combined tactics here and a few serious moments there . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , on Saturday night , Lee here and a few of his mates can go up the Ilford Palais , right ? |
| 26 | A a server here and a few clients there networking in between and the systems may have been relatively small in terms of their total hardware capacity . |
| 27 | It was n't but a few months ago that I was telling them how bad everything was , how we had to keep our spending down to new lower budgets because if we did n't the next cuts we would have to make would be human ones . |
| 28 | and roast puddings , roast tikka twice and a few extras . |
| 29 | I strode well away from the Land Rover but there were cockle shells everywhere and a few needle whelks , like minute unicorns ' horns less than half an inch long . |
| 30 | Divergence across the fault leads to subsidence and the formation of shallow , elongated troughs or sags , typically a few tens of metres across and a few hundred metres long , which , many contain a sag pond . |