Example sentences of "[adv] a [det] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I somehow do n't think they will take major amounts of money at those very restrictive odds , though I suppose you may get a couple of punters putting down a few quid each way : - ) . |
| 2 | erm And obviously a few people do n't like the sight of people on the Cowley , the Cowley Hospital site , and things like that . |
| 3 | Colonel Durand , in command of the defences , who had only a few militia and the usual garrison ‘ invalids ’ under him , sent a desperate appeal for assistance to Field Marshal Wade , while the sudden departure of people returning to the surrounding countryside — Saturday 9 November 1745 was a market day in Carlisle — added to his difficulties , as an eye-witness recorded : |
| 4 | Crail 's activities declined long ago and now there are only a few shellfish boats , but its seventeenth-century Customs House is still an attractive feature of the harbour . |
| 5 | He lifted the skeleton bunch of grapes — now with only a few fruit clinging on precariously — back to the metal bedside cabinet . |
| 6 | Dig the soil to the depth of a spade or fork , and clear out the rubbish as you go large stones , glass , china , bottle tops , sticks , wire , plastic and so on — at the same time mixing in a thin layer of rotted garden compost , especially if the soil is shallow and only a few cm ( in ) deep on top of chalk subsoil . |
| 7 | Reasons of security lie behind the decision and only a few works will not be staying , including a handful of objects and paintings belonging to the artist himself and the painting ‘ Montroig , the church and the people ’ ( 1919 ) which has been promised to the Fondació Joan Miró in Barcelona . |
| 8 | Mr. Frisby believes companies often pay little attention to the contract , thinking it involves only a few pence per copy . |
| 9 | Other places may contain only a few species , yet the biomass at least at some seasons can be very high ; and this is true of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans . |
| 10 | Whereas tropical forests may contain hundreds of species of trees , temperate forests typically contain only a few species ( oak with ash , yew with beech ) or even only one ( as in the redwood or cedar forests of North America ) . |
| 11 | There are only a few species of plants which grow floating on the water surface and are considered as useful for the heated aquarium . |
| 12 | Detailed experimental analyses of wing-movements during flight are available for only a few species and probably differ in different insects ( Weis-Fogh , 1956a , 1956b ; Jensen , 1956 ; Jensen and Weis-Fogh , 1962 ; Nachtigall , 1966 ; Neville , 1960 ; Vogel , 1966–67 ) . |
| 13 | Only a few species inhabit both polar regions ; each region has recruited almost entirely from its own hemisphere . |
| 14 | Both are slow processes ; the establishment of a typical antarctic plant community involving only a few species may take centuries or even millennia ( Lamb , 1970 ) . |
| 15 | Birds are prominent on the tundra , especially in summer when migrant waders and waterfowl pour in from the south ; only a few species are year-round residents . |
| 16 | It is not possible at present to assess the taxonomic weight of the character of the arm spine articulation surface on the lateral arm plates , whether of familial or subfamilial worth as only a few species have yet been examined . |
| 17 | ‘ For the smaller systems , with only a few staff , much of the context ( their list of potential training needs ) may seem irrelevant . |
| 18 | ‘ Only a few whiting . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Only a few whiting ! |
| 20 | Only a few people can train themselves to get beyond them . ’ |
| 21 | Goebbels 's eulogy of Hitler in an article in Das Reich on 31 December was said to have been well received by ‘ only a few people 's comrades and naturally the old loyal fighters ’ . |
| 22 | Woosnam himself , angry at the time of the incident at the 13th , said this week that ‘ only a few people spoilt it for a lot ’ . |
| 23 | He was afraid ; there were only a few people left where he was and not much food . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly , it was another early closure , with only a few people living nearby . |
| 25 | It was nothing more than ridiculous hysteria and totally unreal , but only a few people saw this and John Keith in Forres was one of them . |
| 26 | Indeed , the mystics played an extremely important part in each one of these three monotheistic religions , even though only a few people could undertake the mystical life . |
| 27 | It was in a narrow side street and there were only a few people watching . |
| 28 | The ancient conception has enormous ethical and intellectual scope but applies to only a few people ; the modern conception concerns a limited number of protective arrangements which concern every member of society . |
| 29 | Then , many had the bad luck to be infected whereas here we are talking about only a few people . |
| 30 | The American delegation had submitted ‘ a long list of trading firms , educational institutions , research institutions , local and provincial organizations , each amounting to only a few people , and even street neighbour groups , and is insisting on consultations with them ’ . |