Example sentences of "[prep] a few small " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this fuss over the hunting of a few small cubes of mycoprotein |
| 2 | Cooks Ferry and Stonebridge for a few small fish to bloodworm through the ice . |
| 3 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
| 4 | And Morse did the same , feeling for a few small moments an intense and splendid happiness . |
| 5 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 6 | The bones consist of lagomorph remains for the most part with a few small lizards and rodents . |
| 7 | But amazingly , 17-stone Alan escaped with a few small cuts and bruises — and a little lost dignity . |
| 8 | Microworm are best cultured in small plastic containers such as well washed half pound margarine tubs with a few small holes pierced into the lid . |
| 9 | The United States , Central and South America ( with a few small exceptions ) , Liberia and Japan were politically independent of Europe . |
| 10 | The algorithm begins with a few small clusters , and it enlarges them and creates new clusters as it is presented with more data . |
| 11 | It was a terrace of three stone cottages , with a cobbled clearing at the front and a common area with a few small outbuildings at the back . |
| 12 | The follicles were surrounded by a population of small round lymphocytes , intermingled with a few small cleaved cells and centrocyte like appearance . |
| 13 | We contented ourselves with a few small purchases , but will probably go there for some more serious shopping before the end of our stay in Peking , as it is obviously the best place in the country for buying touristy things . |
| 14 | As she passed through the lights she turned right into a small service road which ran alongside a few small shops . |
| 15 | Apart from a few small departments which relocated to Aldermaston into temporary accommodation shortly after the site was purchased , the main move was made in two parts starting with the move of the headquarters of Blue Circle Cement , the main UK operating group , into temporary accommodation in the third quarter of 1984 . |
| 16 | Next , in a few small still lifes of early 1910 , such as the Glass on a Table , the objects are blocked in a much more direct manner than hitherto . |
| 17 | Thus it is pointed out that support for microelectronics has been biased towards the south of the country , and it is argued that emphasis on a division between sunrise and sunset , on finance at the expense of manufacturing , on entrepreneurship and new firms as opposed to restructuring existing industries , will all encourage the confinement of the fifth wave of economic growth to a few small areas of the country . |