Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , even on the strictest of diets , allowing only a few hundred calories per day , it seems impossible to shift even a small amount of weight per week . |
| 2 | From a tentative experiment , bringing in a few girl trainees , mostly from charitable institutions , the employment in Edinburgh of women compositors had by Edwardian times become an institution . |
| 3 | Bravd , galloping along a few feet away , nodded . |
| 4 | But one day he made the mistake , at least from his point of view , of bringing along a few tapes of his favourite soul and reggae music . |
| 5 | It was an amazing frosty morning , with a strange , silent mist hanging only a few hundred feet high . |
| 6 | Jess said , climbing down a few rungs . |
| 7 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 8 | I WAS IN the office checking over a few invoices and trying to locate the squeak on my swivel chair when the phone rang . |
| 9 | At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’ |
| 10 | In case we do have a hard winter however , it might be worth potting up a few and over-wintering them , if you have n't already saved some of last year 's generously produced and well-ripened seed . |
| 11 | We 're seeing just a few cases and I do n't deny the fact that occasionally there are bullies in the Army . |
| 12 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 13 | Standard size is 16 x 25 x 39in , which is 40 x 63 x100cm , quite enough for a largish kite , and costing only a few pennies . |
| 14 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 15 | There had to be more to it than simply filling in a few spaces with a ballpoint ; greater symbolic weight was required . |
| 16 | One British couple living just a few hundred yards away were amazed by the news . |
| 17 | He became interested as a boy of six when he discovered a set living just a few hundred yards away from the wooden bungalow in which the family then lived . |
| 18 | ‘ Being used as cheap labour to break Alejandro 's ponies , ’ said Luke , taking Perdita 's suitcases from her , ‘ in return for picking up a few tips from the master . ’ |
| 19 | So again , erm a way of picking up a few marks , quite a few . |
| 20 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 21 | And he manages to present what could be very dry stuff with the flair of a good detective writer , setting up expectations whose fulfilment contains an element of surprise , while saving up a few clinching strokes for the end . |
| 22 | Being a regular to the attractions of the Continent and its sunnier climes , I started by skimming through and picking out a few of the relatively recent crags that I have visited , such as Ceuse & Oppede le Vieux : they are in — fine . |
| 23 | Before picking out a few of the research findings , which highlight short-comings , I should say that there was a great deal to commend and admire about the response to the Act from individual schools and authorities in very difficult circumstances , not the least of which was the failure of central government to provide any additional resources . |
| 24 | All three of the participants in that clandestine meeting , looking back a few months later , were to recall the weather on that day as an omen — a mirror of the tempestuous events which followed . |
| 25 | This bright red bus is large and suitable for serving quite a few children . |
| 26 | This fragment , measuring only a few square centimetres , was divided up and samples , the equivalent of about 50 mg in weight , were given to three accelerator laboratories in Oxford , Zurich and Tucson . |
| 27 | Here a great mass of molten rock , lying only a few thousand feet down in the earth 's crust , heats the rocks on the surface . |
| 28 | It baffled her as to why she should feel a tingle in her veins just because Piers Morrison was lying only a few inches away from her . |
| 29 | Channichthyid fish of antarctic waters , for example the icefish Champsocephalus aceratus , are unusual in possessing only a few erythrocytes ( red blood corpuscles ) as larvae and none as adults ; related species have much reduced erythrocyte counts throughout life . |
| 30 | The smallholder , growing only a few rows , will probably ‘ dibble ’ the tubers into the original ridges by hand , thereby saving the subsequent ridging operation . |