Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 2 | Ancient marble columns and building blocks are scattered throughout the village , providing a doorstep here , a lintel there , or perhaps a few mooring posts . |
| 3 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 4 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 5 | The geography of fifteenth-century palaces had been relatively simple : there was a Great Hall , where ceremonious and public appearances were made , and the Chamber where the King withdrew and where only a few could follow him . |
| 6 | " After seven hours we arrived in Ekondo Jundu , a village in a forest clearing , where only a few outsiders had been seen before . |
| 7 | ‘ A company where only a few outside interests own the shares . |
| 8 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 9 | If the key elements of ‘ owlness ’ were absent , or only a few were present , the birds showed some curiosity about the dummy but were not stimulated to perform the full mobbing response . |
| 10 | Night at any rate you had fine , as we had , with a high clear moon & just a few stars lost here & there among folds of cloud . |
| 11 | Do you collect a wide range of them , some of them , or just a few of them ? |
| 12 | Do you collect a wide range of them , some of them or just a few of them ? |
| 13 | She had no idea whether it was to be a large gathering , or just a few intimate friends . |
| 14 | THREE years of undergraduate study now requires 10 to 20 paperbacks where formerly a few solid textbooks sufficed . |
| 15 | I 'd have preferred a book that told a few truths , or even a few lies . |
| 16 | Some are quite a major commitment , some a small but regular commitment , others no more than an hour or even a few minutes of your time . |
| 17 | The LEA 's detachment and its knowledge of a few dozen ( or even a few hundred ) other institutions could be of great value . |
| 18 | Findings which are replicated throughout a number of countries , or which can be shown to vary under specified conditions , become much more powerful since ‘ an explanatory theory of industrial relations can not be based upon the narrow range of industrial relations processes observable in one , or even a few , countries ’ ( Walker , 1967 , p. 108 ) . |
| 19 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |
| 20 | What she wanted from Luke Hunter was not a few months ' — or even a few years ' — sensual companionship . |
| 21 | Well how about a wild boar , or even a few snails ? |
| 22 | Then we , father er with doing the bicycles and with interest in other engineering things like gas engines , which seemed to have a , a period of er great prosperity I would say er in the period between nineteen hundred or maybe a few years before that until early twenties the , the gas engines were ideal things for little factories . |
| 23 | Well if if you add to those two factors , erm isolation and and loneliness , erm then the consequences can vary I mean certainly there were large numbers or quite a few elderly people up in the flats , who who survived who survived very poorly really . |
| 24 | No-one , except perhaps a few scientists , had any idea of the long-term effects the dropping of these two bombs would have on the unfortunate Japanese — and perhaps even the scientists were unsure . |
| 25 | One hears odd whispers to the effect that the production of seed is limited , and that only a few growers are allowed to handle them . |
| 26 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 27 | He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul . |
| 28 | We may argue that temperate animals and plants must ‘ concentrate ’ on coping with winter , and that only a few manage to do so ; or that because life is so seasonal , temperate animals and plants are thrown into greater competition at specific times of year , than in the tropics . |
| 29 | Starting at the crowded favoured end is all very well if you can get a good clean start , but more often than not , there is so much crowding that only a few boards get away in clean wind . |
| 30 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |