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 | It was an amazing frosty morning , with a strange , silent mist hanging only a few hundred feet high . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We 're seeing just a few cases and I do n't deny the fact that occasionally there are bullies in the Army . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One British couple living just a few hundred yards away were amazed by the news . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This bright red bus is large and suitable for serving quite a few children . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The smallholder , growing only a few rows , will probably ‘ dibble ’ the tubers into the original ridges by hand , thereby saving the subsequent ridging operation . |
| 16 | Their impact lies in their sheer number : preserving just a few would mean accepting the loss in character of a remarkable and memorable landscape . |
| 17 | Around this lily-covered pond are growing just a few of the 3,000 members of the Araceae family . |
| 18 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 19 | A Mr Carey ( with his girlfriend ) began squatting there a few months later , and offered to pay rent which amounted to an acknowledgement of title , but this was refused . |
| 20 | It could cross the open sea , and land on the enemy coast small groups of men who , in raids lasting perhaps a few hours or , at most , a day or two , could do much damage to both enemy property and morale . |
| 21 | Unfortunately improvement was short-lived , lasting only a few weeks in those with more severe forms of the disease . |
| 22 | The Soviet work described in this historic talk concentrated on high-power pinch discharges lasting only a few microseconds with currents of up to two million amps flowing between electrodes in straight tubes . |
| 23 | However , many of them show random variations in brightness lasting only a few months or , on occasion , days . |
| 24 | Strong tetanic stimulation , which evoked large NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic currents , produced Ca 2+ transients lasting only a few seconds . |
| 25 | Most of the registered unemployed are unlikely to be interested in temporary jobs lasting only a few days . |
| 26 | e ) Sudden changes of pressure in the ears when clearing them , either on ascent or descent , can produce in susceptible pilots a strong feeling of disorientation , usually lasting only a few seconds . |
| 27 | Choosing the right hotel for your holiday is a most important decision and it needs careful consideration even if you are staying only a few days . |
| 28 | The temporary nature of her job , staying only a few weeks at any one place , meant she had met and worked for a wide variety of men . |
| 29 | Consequently there are arguments among botanists about the relationships of many plants , living and fossil , and some classifications have quite large categories containing only a few plants , which may be rare . |
| 30 | Er , we 're getting quite a few calls on that subject now , John from Erith , good morning to you John . |