Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 31 | Currently available speech recognition systems typically impose a number of constraints on the user , such as a limited vocabulary ( possibly only a few hundred words ) , speaker dependence ( new users require individual training ) and the use of disconnected speech ( rather than the more natural continuous speech ) . |
| 32 | Almost immediately , it seemed , Burton got his first film break — still only a few months out of the RAF . |
| 33 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |
| 34 | You could take home just a few to cut open and look for the young larva or larvae , as in some types of gall there is always more than one larva , each in its own separate section . |
| 35 | And an Oxford student has been found hanged at her home just a few days before she was due to return for a new term . |
| 36 | He says the victim was walking to her home just a few minutes away along a very busy street . |
| 37 | I 'd like to spend erm a few minutes , hopefully not too long because I 'm er known for talking for hours and hours when it comes to our company and our product , but hopefully just a few minutes telling you about our approach to developing an open accounting system . |
| 38 | A very similar idea to Linde 's was put forth independently a few months later by Paul Steinhardt and Andreas Albrecht of the University of Pennsylvania . |
| 39 | However , there are still quite a few rather heavily marked White Parks and sometimes a completely black calf is thrown , which is never the case with the pure Chillinghams . |
| 40 | There are still quite a few trees and bushes festooned with the fruits of last year . |
| 41 | Above the eyes yeah , we 're still quite a few of these short are n't we ? |
| 42 | As much a part of the scenery as the granite tors are the Dartmoor ponies , and there are usually quite a few around the hut circles . |
| 43 | Patched together from the remnants of the Docklands ramp which some yonks back had been acquired by Neil , Liverpool 's mini was a pretty unconventional affair — big transistors tweaked with smaller ones , no more then a few feet of flat bottom — and it rode like a ditch . |
| 44 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
| 45 | This more gentle , gradual return to normal relies on a lot of family support , of course , and it 's easier to achieve , says Caroline , with a home birth or with a domino delivery ( when you 're examined by the community midwife at home , delivered in hospital by her , and then brought home again a few hours later ) . |
| 46 | " Oh boy , " breathed Chuck Sherman , gazing longingly at the impenetrable green wall of tropical foliage slipping past only a few yards from the ship 's rail , " this is going to make the mountains of West Virginia seem a bit tame . |
| 47 | Whereas formerly only a few writers ( such as de Sade and Sacher-Masoch ) propagated their practice , today they play a decisive role in our culture , literature , art , music , theater and movies . |
| 48 | After what seemed like several hours but was probably only a few minutes , we heard an aircraft approaching , and heads popped up all over the hut . |
| 49 | It felt like an hour , but it was probably only a few minutes . |
| 50 | There are probably only a few crewmen on board , not combat trained . |
| 51 | Called ‘ Trade Ups ’ , the idea is to provide proof of purchase of a competing product , for which you get to buy the ‘ better ’ product at a very low price , probably only a few pounds more than existing users can upgrade for . |
| 52 | ‘ It 's my guess that the reunion really will take place — probably only a few minutes after her arrival . ’ |
| 53 | for people , kids being off , so it 's obvious the rest of the country 's off that week , and so it 's probably only a few limited schools |
| 54 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 55 | If you have electrical appliances I know it 's gon na cost you a few pence , or probably even a few pounds these days , do make sure that your electrical appliances are serviced properly and correctly . |
| 56 | The single , simple reason for the biography 's size is that , in the effort to come up with what , if only for the number of facts it contains , must rank as definitive , Ackroyd has scoured not just every imaginable source but also quite a few unimaginable ones as well . |
| 57 | There are also quite a few different colours ranging from black and bay ( light brown ) to grey and palomino ( cream ) . |
| 58 | Yeah I mean but on the other hand the there 's probably quite a few that did read it . |
| 59 | I do n't think that he could look after other countries , although the same sort of precedent could no doubt apply for example , the former French prime minister , there 's probably quite a few of them around , could be found to go |
| 60 | Er it seems to me that erm there are probably quite a few policies in the structure plan that could be omitted if we just took the all the P P Gs as read . |