Example sentences of "[adv] to a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | This and a similar arrangement by Kenneth II for lands in Lothian came to be regarded by the English as an admission that Scottish rulers were not equals but vassals in relation not merely to a few specific regions but to the whole of Scotland — which had never been contemplated by the Scottish signatories . |
| 2 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 3 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 4 | Only when that bar in the bathroom was wafer thin or the toilet roll down to a few sheets , would the replacement be moved to the Forward Depot — the bathroom cupboard . |
| 5 | Diving down to a few hundred feet over Hal Far , Müncheberg then claimed another at 0754 as it was landing , but having no witness of this was credited only with a probable , although it was subsequently included in his score . |
| 6 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 7 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 8 | Visibility was down to a few yards . |
| 9 | The windscreen wipers trudge sluggishly and ineffectively through the water , bringing visibility down to a few feet . |
| 10 | At 8 o'clock on Friday , June 15th , over 30 teenagers met in the church Family Centre for a strange ritual known only to a few as MIDNIGHTICESKATING . |
| 11 | At a place known in advance only to a few , the motorcade comes to a halt . |
| 12 | It applies only to a few high risk processes and is invariably achieved by means of heat . |
| 13 | The problem is too technical , complex and known only to a few . |
| 14 | Its populist mission is to ‘ challenge the fallacy that the arts and humanities belong only to a few ’ . |
| 15 | Fortunately it is only to a few that I need refer . |
| 16 | The real identity of Superbarrio is known only to a few . |
| 17 | In the Sandleford warren no rabbit of his age would have been asked to tell a story , except perhaps to a few friends alone . |
| 18 | As the name suggests , the sole purpose of the group was to have fun , and perhaps show off to a few friends . |
| 19 | Dogs can take you directly to a few kilos of heroin welded into the chassis , but they 're not too good at sniffing out a Renoir . |
| 20 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 21 | The blastoids ( class Blastoidea ) had compact cups up to a few centimetres long , with five broad food grooves running down the sides ( lacking crinoid arms ) . |
| 22 | Tyrone , up to a few hundred feet of reddish sandstones occur above a basal conglomerate , and are succeeded by a thin development of argillaceous dolomite , the Upper Permian Magnesian Limestone . |
| 23 | A prototype module of the barrier , known by the apt acronym M.O.S.E. , was in position for tests up to a few months ago . |
| 24 | The effect takes more than 10ms to develop and can last for up to a few seconds . |
| 25 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 26 | However , he ran into a familiar stumbling-block : the concerto and the Souvenir add up to a few minutes less than the magic number of 55 , so he was forced to abandon the idea . |
| 27 | The control Store , containing up to a few thousand words , is set up initially with bit patterns representing the microprograms for the instruction set to be implemented . |
| 28 | Their spectra show that the radiating gas is excited by hydrodynamical shock fronts and that shock velocities of up to a few hundred kilometres a second are involved . |
| 29 | The number of strings which the algorithm keeps may range up to a few thousand , and each bit string may be a few hundred long . |
| 30 | On moderately dry ground , for example along the coast of Antarctica , unsorted polygons are convex shapes in the ground up to a few metres across , ringed by a network of furrows that mark the positions of persistent cracks ( Figure 3.8 ) . |