Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other cases the ion state is only weakly bound , so that only a few discrete levels exist , and the band shows a few lines followed by a broad continuous portion . |
| 2 | At the same time energy is lost from rotational degrees of freedom , by collisions during the expansion , and samples often end up almost entirely in the lowest few rotational levels , so that only a few transitions are observed in the spectrum . |
| 3 | Most of these industries have closed down and only a few survive as a reminder of the type of activity found adjacent to the railway in past years . |
| 4 | Because he thought that he was dealing with the National Press rather than simply a few local people whom he had been ignoring for a considerable time , the Mayor responded to direct questioning , even if he did not change his colours . |
| 5 | Political life in America sometimes seems only to be about bargaining in one form or another : Bargaining skill is indispensable in a chief executive obliged to operate in a pluralist system of decision -making where power is diffused and decentralized , and where there is a multiplicity of significant power holders rather than just a few . |
| 6 | The apparent advantage of variance reduction is diminished if , as is much more often the case with surveys than with experiments , many somewhat disparate characteristics are under review rather than just a few correlated variables . |
| 7 | We have like , we have hundreds of crap facilities rather than just a few good ones . |
| 8 | The audience too seemed miles away and only a few coughs could be heard . |
| 9 | She then took her father 's hat from his head , laid it upside down on the sand , rocked it backwards and forwards a few times , then upset it . |
| 10 | This can usually be done by bending it backwards and forwards a few times . |
| 11 | The overworked and gloomy chef in the main dining car had not lost his temper altogether and only a few passengers had grumbled that the roomettes were too cramped ; the most usual disgruntlement , George said . |
| 12 | She breathed in slowly and regularly a few times , then got shakily to her feet . |
| 13 | Right and probably a few other things . |
| 14 | But when we 're dealing as we are in this case , with fraud , then clearly there has to be regulations , there has to be er primary legislation er so that was the point I 'm making but as I say , it 's not just me , it 's the stock exchange , the S I B , all of them believe that we need a single enforcement body to look at these matters and I do wish perhaps the minister does but the government must acc eople and a number of ople obviously with a number of traumas and a number of di exploit the different rules and regulations and to get through them because they know they are never going to be caught and the little chance of being prosecuted and even if they are prosecuted er then the chances of being convicted are remote and even if they are convicted I 'm afraid that the judicial shi system shows er that the worst they can expect is a few hours mowing the grass in front of an old folks home or perhaps a few months er in the country residence , albeit owned by Her Majesty . |
| 15 | It had cost her , more than just a few thousand pesetas . |
| 16 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 17 | In the event , this official reformation was both rapid and radical , but up until just a few weeks before Henry 's death it had by no means been inevitable . |
| 18 | Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep , but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering , no one would see . |
| 19 | The adventurous side of Kylie 's spirit eventually triumphed though and just a few months after her exams another audition was being set up . |
| 20 | They read books now and sometimes a few 0& them write poetry . |
| 21 | The sounds of the party were faint here , and now and then a few bars of melody drifted toward us . |
| 22 | The crowd had thinned out now and only a few people were left , dancing in a desultory fashion on the dimly-lit stage . |
| 23 | Whaley got out but quite a few of the others did n't . ’ |
| 24 | Indeed , advice work is certainly more complex today than even a few years ago . |
| 25 | In the case of credit , it has been suggested that even if barely one in three consumers is aware of credit costs , and even if only a few of them use the information to shop around actively , lenders might compete with lower rates as a result . |
| 26 | Here and there a few barricades were erected but they were defended half-heartedly by the few who manned them . |
| 27 | Here and there a few people moved about amongst the chicken coops and the junk : a girl chasing a goose into a pen , a boy flying a kite . |
| 28 | Indeed , the mystics played an extremely important part in each one of these three monotheistic religions , even though only a few people could undertake the mystical life . |
| 29 | The group itself is usually already perceived by this time as a source of comfort , strength , wisdom and support even though only a few weeks previously all its members were lost in active addictive disease . |
| 30 | In practice legislation at Stormont , the Northern Ireland Parliament , tended to follow legislation at Westminster quite closely but often a few years behind . |