Example sentences of "[coord] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading may be slow as the eyes are able to take in only one short word or a few letters at one glance . |
| 2 | Maybe , we wondered , there are derelict areas , or a few jigsaw puzzle pieces , on the edge of our own city , or within its boundaries which , with a little compromise and a lot of imagination … ? |
| 3 | The tiniest corner can become a retreat from the day 's troubles , where a patch of raked sand — seen through the right eyes — is a rippled lake , or a few stems of bamboo a hillside thicket . |
| 4 | The salient fact is that what is uniquely on offer at these parties is not all-night dancing or a few boutique drugs , but fantasy-sensation itself : the orgiastic effect of thousands of people mainlining heavy acid rock at the level of total sound . |
| 5 | And most of those who do will only try it once or a few times . |
| 6 | Conversely , where the exothermicity of the association is small ( comparable to , or a few times kT , Figure 4B ) , then there is much residual motion in the associated state , and the adverse entropy of the association is only a fraction of the formal loss in entropy corresponding to the formation of a rigid complex . |
| 7 | Few of us get through childhood without a broken bone or a few stitches . |
| 8 | It is an excellent way of turning a second-grade smoked salmon , i.e. imported Canadian or Norwegian , or a few slices cut from the end of a side ( sometimes sold cheaply by fishmongers and delicatessen merchants ) into a real delicacy . |
| 9 | Add a cinnamon stick or a few slices of fresh root ginger , then simmer for a few minutes — check it has a good flavour , then remove the spices and add 450g/1lb chopped rhubarb . |
| 10 | The Persons who inhabit the Cottages are chiefly poor Labouring People , who are induced to seek Habitations in the Forest for the Advantages of living Rent free , and having the Benefit of Pasturage for a Cow or a few Sheep , and of keeping Pigs in the Woods ; but many Encroachments have been made by People of Substance . |
| 11 | The possibility of establishing a taxon or class by fiat encourages anatomists to take one or a few specimens and subject them to very detailed dissection . |
| 12 | For the former , since they play against only one or a few opponents , there is no need for learning ; the genetically-determined strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ can be stable . |
| 13 | In all these cases , the bone accumulations resulting from burial , pitfalls , burrow deaths and hibernation/aestivation deaths are distinguished by their limitation to one or a few species but with all parts of the skeleton represented unbroken and well preserved . |
| 14 | In either case , the same degree of dominance of a small mammal assemblage by one or a few species may be achieved , but by different means . |
| 15 | Or a few factors , give me some factors . |
| 16 | The Coventry muster put 53½ per cent at nil , or a few shillings , with a further 9.6 per cent at 20s. or so . |
| 17 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 18 | In their present mood people would think nothing of mortgaging themselves for years ahead in order to acquire some trifling luxury like a jar of brandied peaches or a few leaves of tobacco . |
| 19 | Simple renal cysts were defined as one or a few cysts of 0.2 cm in diameter or more that did not result from adult polycystic disease , medullary cystic disease , or pyelogenic cysts . |
| 20 | The human brain , and the body that it controls , can not do more than one or a few things at once . |
| 21 | Tax at the reduced rate of 20 per cent is due , which amounts to £38 a year , or a few pence over £3 a month . |
| 22 | There were unexplained hold-ups , enemy strongpoints catching the leaders in heavy fire perhaps , or a few moments ' loss of direction as they probed forward . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In this country it is only the older , the inherited rich or a few intellectuals who are relaxed enough to think about the unprivileged . |
| 25 | West Country Living : A few hours or a few weeks before the mast With air like this , it 's a sin not to get out into it . |
| 26 | Tests at very high temperatures need be , and should be , continued for only a short period , i.e. , for days or a few weeks rather than months . |
| 27 | In an effore to pick a premium FFL squad , could someone send me the current ( or a few weeks old league table that was published recently ) as I seem to have got rid of it , and todays paper does n't have one in |
| 28 | As it must be swallowed , the layer is not too thick , which may account for the common occurrence of relatively thin layers of nutritious material over a single seed or a few seeds in a fruit . |
| 29 | In his famous concluding paragraph of The Origin of Species Darwin expressed wonder that the diversity of the organic world can have been produced from one or a few ancestors by the operation of several natural laws — ‘ there is grandeur in this view of life … ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ The waste and desert appearance is partly caused by the vast extent of the common lands belonging to the towns and villages , the system of management of which is ruinous in the extreme , and the finest districts , capable of enriching the proprietors and the country at large , are abandoned to , and only serve as pasture for goats , sheep or a few asses . ’ |