Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their front end has a mouth below and a few light-sensitive spots above so that the animal can be said to have the beginnings of a head . |
| 2 | After five minutes or so and a few shaky moments in some bankside undergrowth , a huge koi graced my net which when put on the scales went a shade over 15lb . |
| 3 | It does n't take long and a few minutes trying things out could mean hours saved later and some useful space where you have used up some leftover yarns . |
| 4 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 5 | And most of those who do will only try it once or a few times . |
| 6 | Finally , a note to those contemplating summer glacier skiing : get up early and a few glorious runs of spring snow will make it all worthwhile . |
| 7 | Being a bright lad , he worked out that it was an updraught from underground and a few removed boulders later the entrance to Lancaster Hole was revealed . |
| 8 | Lexandro grinned wildly , for within but a few more weeks he was to have holes drilled through his carapace so that he could jack in to power armour . |
| 9 | Four years and two months ago or a few months but the gas man sort of found it dangerous . |
| 10 | I could train birds on the bitter bead , shock them , either immediately or a few minutes after training , and compare the biochemistry in the birds which had tasted the bead but forgotten the association with that in the birds which had tasted and remembered the bead . |
| 11 | The only difference between Tina Turner today and a few years ago is her material . |
| 12 | There are about 156,000 black-and-whites today and a few of the Swedish animals have been exported to Finland , Greece , Spain and Portugal . |
| 13 | A quarter of an inch in the waist here and a few millimetres on a horn there is often the extent of it . |
| 14 | So they climbed it together — a touch of combined tactics here and a few serious moments there . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , on Saturday night , Lee here and a few of his mates can go up the Ilford Palais , right ? |
| 16 | A a server here and a few clients there networking in between and the systems may have been relatively small in terms of their total hardware capacity . |
| 17 | and roast puddings , roast tikka twice and a few extras . |
| 18 | I strode well away from the Land Rover but there were cockle shells everywhere and a few needle whelks , like minute unicorns ' horns less than half an inch long . |
| 19 | Divergence across the fault leads to subsidence and the formation of shallow , elongated troughs or sags , typically a few tens of metres across and a few hundred metres long , which , many contain a sag pond . |
| 20 | On this day , early in 1940 , the hut was still there and a few deckchairs , but that was about all . |
| 21 | Sawdust in the gear-boxes , the electric-drill on the speedometer cables , a splash of paint here and there and a few other clever little tricks and the idiots were all falling over themselves to buy . ’ |
| 22 | Put your talking tapes there and a few CD-ROM products , and computer software . |
| 23 | The thatched roof went long ago , but when I was a child the loft was still covered and Mother and Father kept a bed there and a few other necessary things . |
| 24 | Staggering And , after earning at the staggering rate of nearly $60 a second throughout this tournament , he said : ‘ I would rather win Wimbledon again and a few thousand pounds than this tournament and all this money . ’ |
| 25 | Yeah , that 's , that 's when it 's hard she asks you the same thing again and again and a few minutes later , then half an hour later , then , then you think have you listened |