Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | As their striding Emperor quivered with the unleashing of its weaponry , Biff sat impotently for only a few moments . |
| 2 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 3 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 4 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 5 | Blue whales are no longer hunted , but their numbers were depleted to such an extent in the past that present populations ( perhaps of only a few hundred individuals ) may be too small to recover . |
| 6 | Behind the retina is a cascade of other cells , neurones , which are all physiologically of just a few types . |
| 7 | The break-up of the coalition and Churchill 's formation of a ‘ caretaker ’ government , consisting largely of his Conservative supporters together with just a few non-party men , followed almost at once . |
| 8 | ‘ The director wants to see you right away , Marianne , and Dane asked me to tell you he 'll be down in just a few minutes , Shae , to finish off his costume fitting . ’ |
| 9 | This equipment can measure freon concentrations down to just a few parts per trillion . |
| 10 | At Gabes , the coastal plain narrows down to only a few miles between the sea and a large area of salt marshes . |
| 11 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |
| 12 | Weighing in at only a few ounces , you hardly notice that you 're wearing this jacket . |
| 13 | A pond that is iced over for just a few days will come to no harm , but in a prolonged freeze , the fish may suffer unless you take precautions . |
| 14 | It was over for quite a few of our friends and neighbours . |
| 15 | Yet , when the time comes for a hermit crab to change shell , having outgrown its present one , it can accomplish the change over in just a few seconds . |
| 16 | Many in the trade expect prices to go up further today , and possibly for quite a few auctions to come . |
| 17 | REPAIRS have been carried out to a 40ft long roof of a village canoe store which blew off after just a few weeks in place . |
| 18 | ‘ It may be impossible for him to get home in just a few months . ’ |
| 19 | They 're very big landowners — probably worth quite a few million piasters . " |
| 20 | The approaches to market segmentation referred to above apply more naturally to consumer markets than to industrial markets , where an entire market may be made up of just a few customers . |
| 21 | A large proportion of a corpus is made up of only a few words ( about 25% of a corpus is made up of just 15 different words ) . |
| 22 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
| 23 | And that was very quick as well , the way you worked it out , it 's not gon na take you long to pile up with quite a few marks on that . |
| 24 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 25 | But let me tell you now about just a few of those entries which did not make it to the final but which , nevertheless , had several redeeming features . |
| 26 | I was quite pleased to be back home but I missed the excitement of the trips and wanted to go back for just a few more days . |
| 27 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |
| 28 | Then at each level , credit is passed back after just a few attempts at search . |
| 29 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 30 | Where a major change to the firm has taken place ( eg the departure of one partner out of only a few or several partners at one time , merger or takeover , or the closure of an entire department ) there is a professional obligation to notify clients as soon as reasonably practicable . |