Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interior , although fairly basic in its design , is roomy and much better screwed together than a few years ago . |
| 2 | Under cover of the conversation , Luke drew her attention , his hand brushing against her arm through the fine fabric of the lacy jacket , and she started nervously so that a few drops of wine spilled over the rim of her glass . |
| 3 | Only that a few madmen liked to kill each other , and the British Army and the RUC , and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it . |
| 4 | If this phase difference is negligibly small , say , less than a few degrees , then the line may as well be represented in terms of lumped components corresponding to the total series and parallel impedances . |
| 5 | So I boiled them in pan for the dog and I put some taters in and a few peas and carrots sort of thing and some Oxos and made him a r a right good dinner . |
| 6 | Forays had been made at night ; scaffolding had been torn down and a few workers employed in building Carewscourt had been killed . |
| 7 | It does n't take long and a few minutes trying things out could mean hours saved later and some useful space where you have used up some leftover yarns . |
| 8 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 9 | Kádár was fairly liberal in that respect , so long as a few taboos were respected , especially the role of the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | That might work with the philosophe who put together the doctrine in the first place but it is unlikely to work with a follower who is able to live with all sons of inconsistencies so long as a few slogans can be repeated again and again . |
| 11 | Even in a larger group , so long as a few actors stand to benefit disproportionately from the group 's success , then it may be worth their while to bear the costs of collective action , although less-involved people will free-ride . |
| 12 | So if we 're talking about something talking about something taking a light year to reach us in terms of light , any possibility of human contact we 're talking about millions of years , probably , rather than a few years . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's just that a few days ago I heard one of our members say something about Connie . |
| 14 | This exchange of ideas during the class in no way impeded the work of the children , as these conversations never lasted longer than a few minutes and even if two children spoke together they continued their work . |
| 15 | Where " events " last longer than a few hours or one day , the need for order in the relationship is increased . |
| 16 | It seems as if I have been here a lot longer than a few years , and I do not think that I could ever fit into an institutional regime again . |
| 17 | It is probably true to say that if young British-born Caribbeans from London have a conversation lasting longer than a few turns , then it will contain London English even if it contains Creole as well . |
| 18 | No-one stayed longer than a few weeks . |
| 19 | Given that conditions had changed greatly in forty years , and that ‘ the right to know ’ had in every walk of life assumed paramount importance , it seemed nevertheless unrealistic — even allowing for the vastly different scale of the conflict — for relatives of servicemen to protest at lack of information over but a few days or even hours . |
| 20 | Indeed , in most cases there is no effect at all on the premium as these sort of policies give cover of a type that will not result in a reduced premium just because a few people more or less are covered at any one time in a particular situation . |
| 21 | Mr Des Wilson , the Liberal Democrat campaign manager , played down the racial element in the vote that defeated Mr Taylor , saying : ‘ We won that seat on the merits of our campaign , not because a few votes for the Tory may have been influenced by the colour of their candidate 's skin . ’ |
| 22 | The water pours on until a few inches has collected in the bottom . |
| 23 | In 1951 , for example , the Boards had been asked by the Minister to cut their spending on rural electrification , and most did so ; the South Western Board , by contrast , pressed on and a few years later were praised by the same Minister for pursuing this uneconomic development . |
| 24 | And most of those who do will only try it once or a few times . |
| 25 | I was obsessed by new clothes to the extent that I 'd lost interest in something if it was more than a few hours old . |
| 26 | Thus the warming and the movement of water help to give rise to climate , which is immensely complex ; and the day-to-day fluctuations which are known as ‘ weather ’ are extraordinarily difficult to predict in detail , more than a few hours ahead . |
| 27 | I get up fairly early , as you know , so he would n't be in it more than a few hours . ’ |
| 28 | Most of 'em do n't get used more than a few hours in the year . |
| 29 | On the other hand , more than a few civilians were sloppy and needed to smarten up a bit . |
| 30 | It appears never to have remained sufficiently constant to enable benches more than a few kilometres wide to form , at least since the beginning of the Pleistocene period . |