Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case a few records are updated very frequently , a few very seldom , and most records are updated more or less an average amount ; the distribution is shown in Fig. 6.21 . |
| 2 | Mr Harland added : ‘ Unfortunately in this case a few of our postmen failed to interpret those rules correctly . |
| 3 | Without any ends at all for which to survive life would be , in the strict sense of the words , not worth living , and on this boat a few decencies preserved without regard for consequences would be the last ends left which he values for themselves . |
| 4 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 5 | You may agree with honours or not , we 've done this programme a few year ago , Bill , but classless is erm , as I understand it , is to give anyone in this country erm the opportunity to get to the top . |
| 6 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 7 | Spencer Stuart went through this process a few years earlier in a more effective way . |
| 8 | Lorentz returned to this point a few months later when he was reviewing Fritz Lang 's German film M . |
| 9 | I had three questions on this point a few minutes ago . |
| 10 | First , at this juncture a few points in regard to what might be meant by ‘ baroque ’ . |
| 11 | To this day a few of the fields around the village tell of its past history . |
| 12 | Kiernan reports suggestions that Lermontov 's own death ( like Pushkin 's in another duel a few months before ) may have been murder , a murder planned by court reactionaries . |
| 13 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 14 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 15 | Against this gloom a few heroic individuals stood out , both for their ingenuity and their concern for agricultural well-being . |
| 16 | Police piecing together the events of Tuesday night have discovered that the killer had robbed another couple a few minutes before . |
| 17 | The CRL tackled this problem a few years ago , developing ice-lined refrigerators : tubes of water surrounding the fridge compartment freeze ; if the power fails , the tubes keep the vaccines cool until all the ice has melted . |
| 18 | Post a letter to another country a few hundred miles along the West African coast : it will be hand-sorted in a sorting office at the back of st Paul 's cathedral in London . |
| 19 | This time a few , reluctant drops spattered the millpond surface but did not disturb it . |
| 20 | By this stage a few will have decided that this is not for them . |
| 21 | Reflected Glory reunites him with writer Ronald Harwood and director Elijah Moskinsky , with whom he worked on the stage production of Another Time a few years ago . |
| 22 | Having changed money in one office , I was directed to another office a few streets away to arrange accommodation . |
| 23 | Self-indulgence , simply because facilities are there to be used , is a poor substitute for prior thought and it is amazing how much paper a few cross-tabulations can use up . |
| 24 | It might even result in information which , in turn , could help to elucidate why army undercover men were stealing the three vehicles that night a few months earlier near William Black 's house at the junction of Black 's Road and Tildarg . |
| 25 | San Quentin Point is the third part of a trilogy which began with THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE , CALIFORNIA ( 1975 ) — a foundation block of the " New Topographics " — and was followed by PARK CITY , a book of 102 photographs which describe the construction of a ski resort of that name a few miles east of Salt Lake City , Utah ( published 1980 ) . |
| 26 | Getting no satisfaction from that quarter a few of them had taken a problem to a union meeting . |
| 27 | Mother and baby get to know each other a few hours after birth … but for some mothers its a felling they can not appreciate … |
| 28 | The second one shows it in the condition in which her parents found it when they went in there on that morning a few days ago ’ ( p. 156–7 ) . |
| 29 | Well at that age a few months makes a difference . |
| 30 | . Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced the Channel Tunnel has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers , and after that incident a few weeks ago , which was er certainly played down by the authorities , I wonder just how safe the Tunnel is . |