Example sentences of "[adv] just a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er … yes , perhaps just a few more condom and illicit sex gags turned up in that show than normal . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So just a few ideas , not let you know exhaustive but a few ideas to be aware of you 've got appropriate . |
| 5 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 6 | When she is doing anything with children , she always squats down to their level , touches them and listens to them , and the response she gets in just a few moments with each is quite extraordinary . |
| 7 | Unseasoned and untreated timber , very frequently used in the ‘ sixties and early ‘ seventies in windows and doors , will rot in just a few years . |
| 8 | However secure your income today , however comfortable your family life , this could all be placed in jeopardy by something that happens in just a few seconds … a serious accident . |
| 9 | Take in just a few of Northern Spain 's options , and discover the Spain that the Spanish truly love . |
| 10 | How can I describe that experience in just a few words ? |
| 11 | We ca n't hurt her — humiliate her like this when she 's expecting to marry him in just a few weeks , even if it has been arranged for family reasons , and not for love . |
| 12 | The report warned : " Unless there is reduction of population growth together with a resolution of the landless peasant phenomenon , it is difficult to see that much forest will remain in just a few decades time " . |
| 13 | Although it is impossible to sum up 170 years ’ service in just a few sentences , I would like to congratulate five members of Wimpey Plant and Transport staff who , between them , have given this many years of loyal service to the company . |
| 14 | The police are also urging people who keep money at home to have it banked for safety — they want to make sure that people like phylis do n't lose cash that took years to save in just a few short seconds . |
| 15 | The structured the structured thought patterns gave me an actual er organisation to my talk be it only just a few words on a piece of paper it was simple yet er gave the organisation to the actual talk while you stood up in front of an audience . |
| 16 | He was only just a few yards up the blacksmith . |
| 17 | The range of decorative techniques which have been at some time applied to metalwork is a subject for many books , not just a few pages . |
| 18 | This will ensure that the market-place of ideas , which politicians watch so closely , will have all , and not just a few , stall-holders of the truth . |
| 19 | It was obvious that not just a few houses , but whole districts including churches , monasteries , and other monuments to past glories would have to be swept aside to allow for the fill appreciation of the splendour of the glorious new order . |
| 20 | If America is to win in the new global competition , we need to begin telling one another a new story in which companies compete by drawing on the talent and creativity of all their employees , not just a few maverick inventors and dynamic CEOs . |
| 21 | I needed to share all your life , not just a few hours in bed every night . ’ |
| 22 | I nearly joined you , but when we do make love we 'll have all the time in the world , not just a few snatched minutes . ’ |
| 23 | I could have looked after her and been with her so much longer then , not just a few months , not just at the end ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But one must imagine the crowded churches in the East End of London , ’ said Everard , ‘ and the great processions — not just a few sophisticated Anglo-Catholic intellectuals pondering every word with critical detachment . ’ |
| 25 | Since we the taxpayers are having to pay for the programme , can the Minister at least listen to the taxpayers on this and spend these huge sums of money on all our children and not just a few ? |
| 26 | To achieve industrial competitiveness normally requires decades of persistent activity , not just a few years , but it can be thrown away very quickly and very easily . |
| 27 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |
| 28 | Already the first squadrons of sepoy cavalry were swooping over the abandoned ramparts and racing for the Cutcherry to kick away just a few inches of that thin trickle of grey powder before it burnt its way home . |
| 29 | New York is n't exactly just a few miles down the road . ’ |
| 30 | You could take home just a few to cut open and look for the young larva or larvae , as in some types of gall there is always more than one larva , each in its own separate section . |