Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only another few hours to get through . |
| 2 | It took only another few steps for Mait to come within range of the other bomb . |
| 3 | Judge Angus Stroyan QC said : ‘ This was no doubt an extremely unpleasant few seconds for the girl but really no more than a drunken antic . |
| 4 | What happened to them when they got to the other end I have never dared to ask , but perhaps these few illustrations ( pages 82–83 ) will convince you that Doc Winfield actually sat in this contraption and was hooked from a completely static position by an aircraft into the air and probably ( and I never found out ) delivered to some hospital none the worse for the experiment . |
| 5 | Newcomers to night fishing are always surprised to find how cold it is at night , especially those few hours before and after dawn . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've had a terribly peaceful few weeks . ’ |
| 7 | At the end of June , Sir Geoffrey made his own last vain attempt to reassure Hong Kong , flying in briefly for one of the most uncomfortable few days of his long diplomatic career . |
| 8 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 9 | ‘ Nearly … just these few carnations . ’ |
| 10 | It is in just those few cells in the inner cell mass that we have our origins . |
| 11 | Well when was there that fortnight and it seemed ever so strange when we car with the driver sitting that side and all the traffic coming by the other way , it seemed mad to me cos of just those few weeks , I did n't get time to get |
| 12 | Because of the fact that code switching , when it occurs , is pervasive in bilinguals ' speech , and defies analysis on any one level , individual researchers have tended to focus on just those few aspects of code switching which are of particular relevance to them . |
| 13 | With just four minutes remaining , though , the stalest of stalemates was broken by Chelsea captain Andy Townsend , who rounded off an immensely difficult few days for Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson . |
| 14 | You thought me dead these few weeks … |
| 15 | Like the wind that guttered and blew out the candles , a bloodied man had broken through the dancers ' joy to break the glittering ball into dark fragments , yet still some few couples could not bear to relinquish the last moments of peace . |
| 16 | he 's got a few bits , there 's still another few bits to be done you know but it just looks such a mess |
| 17 | Inevitably those few insiders who do undertake postgraduate research in the social sciences are aware that they are involved in the creation of ‘ clap trap ’ , and must know that this denigration stems from the implicit threat they pose to the structures of pedagogy and institutional power . |
| 18 | Even these few quotations show that the notion of the ‘ map ’ or ‘ structure ’ of a subject is by no means straightforward , and involves not only the theoretical or conceptual unities which are referred to in the literature on the nature of disciplines ( OECD 1972 ) , but the approach , emphasis and even methods of teaching . |
| 19 | ‘ Dear knows why he has not been back here these few days ! ’ muttered the housekeeper fretfully . |
| 20 | Among churchmen , even those few bishops who had given enthusiastic support to the coup of 1327 had done so largely out of exasperation with the Despensers ' greed on the Marches or with royal failure to defend the north against Scotland : such personal links as they may have had with Isabella and Mortimer were strained both by a peace which left the north exposed and by Mortimer 's ruthless venality . |
| 21 | For instance , the West , Roy and Nichols study looked at the cases of men who had already been incarcerated in an institution for mentally ill offenders — they were not a random sample of even those few rapists who are convicted . |
| 22 | What the sojourn with Blackheath and Kent did bring home to Gordon Hamilton was the tendency , even those few years ago , of the Irish selection committees to ignore overseas talent . |
| 23 | Had this volume-composition correlation been known in May 1991 , geologists could safely have predicted that the eruption would last for at least another few months , and would erupt at least twice as much magma again . |
| 24 | Whereas Senad , who lost an eye , and needed a jaw operation must stay in Britian for at least another few months . |
| 25 | One method is for the sequence field of the micro-instruction to specify all but the least significant few bits of the next micro-instruction address . |
| 26 | Some computers allow several different test functions to be connected as each of the least significant few bits of the next micro-instruction address , allowing 4-way , 8-way , or even higher order conditional jumps . |
| 27 | It 's been a very trying few days . |
| 28 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |
| 29 | The whole essence of Conservative Party that 's put before the Environment Committee today and I remind us that it was only in a very short few months ago that this Council might be at cuts of up to twenty million pounds in order that low in the very country . |
| 30 | But she was n't away till the third or the fourth , if you could get it within the very first few days |