Example sentences of "[adv] a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 2 | But animals , to varying degrees , employ all the senses available to human beings , with perhaps a few extra ones , and often with a far greater range of sensitivity . |
| 3 | I had greatly looked forward to the meeting , hoping to hear words of wit and wisdom about the law , and perhaps a few good legal anecdotes . |
| 4 | For quite long stretches of the meal these glances , with perhaps a few small frowns and smiles , are all we need to sustain communication . |
| 5 | Ancient marble columns and building blocks are scattered throughout the village , providing a doorstep here , a lintel there , or perhaps a few mooring posts . |
| 6 | How big is the search space ? perhaps a few hundred states |
| 7 | Er my final point sir is concern with perhaps a few emotional points being made to my right about the old and the infirm and the young not being able to afford houses . |
| 8 | It 's no use going on a six day trail ride , with six hours daily in the saddle , if all you want is some gentle hacking in a scenic setting , with perhaps a few longer pub rides as an added bonus . |
| 9 | ‘ It is thirty years now , perhaps a few more . |
| 10 | The narrowest such " we " -group is that of the domestic family itself , parents and their young children and their co-resident retainers ( if there are any ) , but the category " kinsmen " also embraces grandparents and grandchildren , married siblings and their children , married children , uncles and aunts , first cousins , and perhaps a few more . |
| 11 | Disappointment for Oxford , joy for Swindon and perhaps a few more converts to Rugby League . |
| 12 | In miles per second that 's not so easy , but humans have travelled at perhaps a few tens of miles per second in a spacecraft . |
| 13 | This meant that Wilson would have to accept from the re-negotiation the same conditions as Heath had accepted , with perhaps a few minor , cosmetic modifications , or else withdraw the United Kingdom out of the EEC . |
| 14 | Obviously a few spare fivers had not found the right pocket . |
| 15 | The advantage of this is that social secretaries deal with other people 's money , so a few wrong decisions wo n't hurt their own wallet . |
| 16 | ‘ Half my brain cells are dead tissue anyway , so a few more wo n't make much odds . |
| 17 | Only a few rural areas , isolated by bad roads and non-existent railways , remained relatively untouched , but even these , by virtue of their isolation , were often gobbled up by the equally voracious demand for holiday homes and weekend cottages . |
| 18 | Mr Murphy says eligibility levels which took account of variations between households and actual , rather than assumed , figures for tax and housing , could be definitively assessed by further analysis of detailed Family Expenditure Survey statistics at the cost of only a few thousand pounds . |
| 19 | Orwell felt that the bulk of British public opinion was behind Chamberlain 's foreign policy of ‘ non-intervention ’ , dissension being voiced by only a few thousand left-wingers , some of whom went on to fight in Spain . |
| 20 | Only a few thousand of the 250,000 different varieties of wild flowers have been named , he explained . |
| 21 | Morton 's controversial final chapter is only a few thousand words long and attempts to sum up the marriage now but TODAY has discovered new revelations showing how close Diana came to walking out — and still might . |
| 22 | One possibility therefore was that the Earth is only a few thousand years old , a second theory is that ancient helium-3 trapped inside the Earth is being ejected by volcanic eruptions and the third idea , Palmer 's , was that the Earth is indeed billions of years old and that fusion is taking place even now . |
| 23 | The centre of the Sun is at a temperature of fifteen million degrees and at a density 150 times that of water ; in Richter 's experiment , the density of the gases would be a mere fraction of water density and the spark that was supposed to ignite the thermonuclear explosion would have a temperature of only a few thousand degrees . |
| 24 | By contrast , the legends concerning Atlantis and the others refer to a period of time only a few thousand years ago . |
| 25 | The man , pictured in yesterday 's Sunday Mirror wearing a thick black false beard , also claims he was paid only a few thousand pounds from the massive haul and is now broke . |
| 26 | There are only a few thousand maleos left , most of them in the northern parts of the island . |
| 27 | All are small islets only a few thousand square metres in extent , which support a few Shetland sheep , a sizable common seal population and a few birds . |
| 28 | Within a dozen years Philadelphia , its capital , was among the half-dozen largest English towns in North America and , although it had a population of only a few thousand people , very few towns in England apart from London were much larger . |
| 29 | The Witt Librarian John Sunderland rejects the idea of charging a fee for consulting the archive on the grounds that it would raise only a few thousand pounds . |
| 30 | It is often complained of by many that a meeting will take five minutes to agree the expenditure of ten million and two hours to debate a minor item worth only a few thousand . |