Example sentences of "[adv] a few [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a few CD15 + cells ( neutrophils ) were observed in lamina propria throughout and populations did not differ significantly between either group . |
| 2 | Which of course charge nurses are n't getting anywhere near twenty thousand pounds a year and only a few erm nursing officers . |
| 3 | These differences in athletic performance might not be very large , a matter of only a few per cent , but for world-class athletes , the difference between a world record and a mediocre performance can be only fractional . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Total French expenditure is only a few per cent of total US space expenditure . |
| 6 | Thus , Beed has claimed that ‘ since ownership is very widely dispersed … either it could mean , with Berle and Means , that no one individual or small group could gain sufficient votes for control , or , contradicting Berle and Means , that only a few per cent of votes was required for control ’ . |
| 7 | Only a few per cent of the thyroid tumours would be fatal , whereas perhaps half of the cancers from caesium-137 would be fatal . |
| 8 | Although as a prediction of the electoral result this was incorrect , the estimates were only a few per cent out . |
| 9 | Most people will offer something even if it is only a few per cent for cash on delivery . |
| 10 | anything , there 's nothing in there which does , just a few er telephone lines er , going across the skyline there but they 're very faint , you can hardly see them , you 've got ta look very closely to see them . |
| 11 | Fuji Xerox Co Ltd plans to increase imports of parts to take advantage of the high yen in order to cut domestic production costs , Reuter reports from Tokyo : in the long term , it plans to raise the ratio to 30% from just a few per cent but the company is not rushing to achieve this as its export ratio of total products is low at around 20% and the high value of the yen is not severely damaging business . |
| 12 | I think actually , there are still a few erm male only Burns suppers . |
| 13 | Performance-wise , I suppose the best Bill ever managed was on a sunny spring weekday in the early 80s , when he 'd already passed his 60th birthday and I coaxed him up a few 5c slab routes at about E3 on Froggatt : Long John 's Slab , Great Slab , Armageddon . |
| 14 | They read books now and sometimes a few 0& them write poetry . |
| 15 | Oh there was quite a few pas when I past I went up for paper but I did n't call in and vote , you know , |
| 16 | Now the reason we 've got this , is there are quite a few erm , Ottery boys who are members of this corps , and get taken down there by bus every Friday evening , and the Town Clerk erm , went to speak to them . |
| 17 | I 'm I 'm a site agent for Tarmac Construction at erm I attend quite a few erm presentations really , tender interviews often going to the clients management meetings , site meetings and then like a lot of you the one to one situation . |
| 18 | There 's quite a few erm , posters up , asking you to go along to join , the netball fiasco |
| 19 | Er it seems it seems that there were a lot of students , from one of the bigger un er er top class universities which were handling this train , er but er there were quite a few er things done , some of them I would think dangerous . |
| 20 | I 've seen quite a few er in the so well you see we belong wi the Guild is fit into three tiers . |
| 21 | Oh yes cos there was quite a few er kids in in that little street of ours you know in Street . |
| 22 | They have quite a few er foreign beers in er in Budgens these days cos the other week we saw some of that Brock |