Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 31 | The first is to design and construct local services for the majority of mentally disordered people who live in their own homes and who may use mental health services for only a few weeks every few years . |
| 32 | Some may bloom for only a few weeks , but their display is beautiful . |
| 33 | Quick action is vital , since anyone who stops breathing can usually live for only a few minutes without help . |
| 34 | But he meant this to come for only a few days , not for an indefinite stay . |
| 35 | It was good to be able to demonstrate that I did know something about handling animals even though I had been qualified for only a few months . |
| 36 | She put her hands against her face , thinking , ‘ I shall stand this for only a few seconds more , then I shall leave . ’ |
| 37 | By contrast , some of the smallest features seen have lasted for only a few hours . |
| 38 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 39 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 40 | Wash the specimens gently in two changes of distilled water ( not tap water , which contains Fe and Ca ) for only a few seconds at a time — the stains are relatively soluble . |
| 41 | That lasted for only a few moments ; it was a perfect death . |
| 42 | Having used version 5.5 for only a few days I could never go back . |
| 43 | In all this time Kiev itself was in the hands of the short-lived Ukrainian Republic for only a few months . |
| 44 | You 've known him for only a few days , so that 's impossible . |
| 45 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 46 | Although the scheme was run for only a few weeks , more than 1,000 pairs of spectacles were collected from BNFL sites . |
| 47 | Bernard the chamberlain held his high office for only a few months , in 829 – 30 . |
| 48 | This stage resembles planning your essay outline , and could give you your necessary paragraph headings ( particularly since an exam essay gives room for only a few paragraphs ) . |
| 49 | Apollinaris survived for only a few months , and on his death Theuderic had Quintianus installed as bishop , apparently on the grounds that the saint had been driven from Rodez because of his loyalty to the Frankish king . |
| 50 | The Maréchal de Cadenet , a French ambassador on a special mission who stayed in London for only a few days in 1621 , was given by James I jewellery said to be worth £2,500 , while the duke of Buckingham , the king 's favourite , presented him with ponies and four albino falcons , the latter much prized by huntsmen . |
| 51 | Also in New Guinea are sympatric birds of paradise apparently dealing with fruit in a similar way , staying in the trees for only a few minutes , perhaps through fear of predators . |
| 52 | Officers expect to strike for only a few hours , and Association leaders will meet later this week to finalise the details . |
| 53 | It was after ten o'clock , and he would be quite right to disapprove , if it were n't for the fact that , in spite of appearances , she had slept for only a few hours last night . |
| 54 | She could tell he was relieved to be let off the hook if even for only a few minutes , despite his words as they 'd come downstairs . |
| 55 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 56 | Then , many had the bad luck to be infected whereas here we are talking about only a few people . |
| 57 | At the time of the contrasting attentions given to the ball at Lord 's in 1930 it was worth polishing it during only a few early overs . |
| 58 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 59 | At present , the executive takes decisions to release some murderers after only a few years and to keep others in prison for extremely long periods . |
| 60 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |