Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looks round for escape from this man who is obviously a few co-ordinates short of a bearing , and starts to back away slowly . |
| 2 | The same applies to anyone , tall or short , who has been dieting for a lengthy period already , and generally to those who are only a few pounds overweight . |
| 3 | Frankly , the only people I can think of who need to go as low as 850 calories a day in order to achieve a pacey weight loss on the F-Plan are small , rather sedentary women , only a few pounds overweight , and those struggling off the last few pounds of excess weight after a prolonged dieting campaign . |
| 4 | Being only a few pounds overweight . |
| 5 | Having a naturally restrained appetite , which probably means that you are only a few pounds overweight and have gained this weight over a lengthy period . |
| 6 | SAVE FACE THE SAVE FACE/Lemon Fund has closed with £94,445 banked , only a few pounds short of the money we were required to pay Jason Donovan in settlement of the libel action he brought against us earlier this year . |
| 7 | In some places the peat was only a few feet deep whereas in others it went down several yards . |
| 8 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 9 | In deep water the travelling wave may be only a few feet high : but on those rare occasions when such waves reach shallow water , or coastlines , they can rear up and explode with fearful consequences . |
| 10 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |
| 11 | I was sad to leave the boat , we had made many friends despite the trip being only a few hours long . |
| 12 | Three days into our trek we were only a few hours short of the first Zanskari hamlet . |
| 13 | That 's what got to me : Miss Mallender only a few hours dead — and Morpurgo smiling . ’ |
| 14 | But the meeting was only a few hours old when the news broke that Winnie Mandela would face serious charges arising out of the murder in January 1989 of 14 year old activist , Stompie Moeketsi Seipei . |
| 15 | Carved out of the rock and only a few inches wide , they require a certain agility . |
| 16 | The woodcuts are only a few inches square , and defy the artists ' desire for detail and extravagance . |
| 17 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 18 | The gap between the two , although only a few metres wide , is deep enough for my boat to pass through at any state of tide . |
| 19 | Found on rocky coastal areas , younger wrasse live only a few metres deep , while larger specimens can be found deeper than 15 metres . |
| 20 | Evidence of this can be seen in the surprising number of items surviving from the late 19th and early 20th centuries , which one could be forgiven for thinking were only a few decades old . |
| 21 | The scorpions show divisions only in their long tails ; and most spiders have completely lost all signs of segmentation , only a few Southeast Asian species having clearly recognisable relics of their segmented past . |
| 22 | Individually , haplochromines are not spectacular in appearance : most are only a few centimetres long , and silvery , when they are not in their breeding colours . |
| 23 | They grow sticking up vertically on sandy sea floors , some only a few centimetres long , some half as tall as a man . |
| 24 | They are all about the same size — only a few centimetres long — with roughly the same shape , slim , approximately rectangular , with high foreheads and small pouting mouths . |
| 25 | Mudskippers are only a few centimetres long and you can find them in mangrove swamps and muddy estuaries in many parts of the tropics , lying on the glistening mud well beyond the lap of the waters . |
| 26 | Don Juan Pond , 122 m above sea level in Wright Valley and now only a few centimetres deep , is assumed to be the remnant of a much larger freshwater lake of at least 10 m depth . |
| 27 | Although the ericaceous shrubs are a consistent part of the community , they are usually much reduced in stature by exposure and grazing , and may be only a few centimetres high . |
| 28 | integrifolia and the heather Cassiope tetragona ; these grow at most only a few centimetres high , forming thin stands that barely cover the ground . |
| 29 | And with only a few places available each year , it 's like a bottleneck near the top , and the harder it becomes . |
| 30 | They were four-and-three-quarter inches long , and would fit onto most machines , but gave only a few seconds extra time . |