Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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31 | Just a few minutes walk from town centre & beach . |
32 | The report warned : " Unless there is reduction of population growth together with a resolution of the landless peasant phenomenon , it is difficult to see that much forest will remain in just a few decades time " . |
33 | The Seychelles lie in the middle of the Indian Ocean , just a few degrees south of the equator . |
34 | The red colours show the hot spots and the blue shades are just a few degrees cooler . |
35 | Just a few yards north of the inn is a farm that serves teas in the summer . |
36 | Just a few miles west in the grounds of Nuneham Conference Park stands another folly which has ended up in an unexpected place . |
37 | When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) . |
38 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
39 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
40 | They were in Carlisle , just a few miles south of the Scottish-English border . |
41 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
42 | Indeed , for generations the Royal Family have had their own secluded haven just a few miles downriver . |
43 | One such hamlet is Somersby , in the heart of the wolds , just a few miles east of the market town of Horncastle . |
44 | Still a few sea bass here , though they 're so delicious that they hardly have time to freeze . |
45 | Their fleet consists mainly of motor yachts and sport fishermen , including the 120ft ( 36.5m ) Obsession and Allegro , a 73ft ( 22m ) sport fisherman , although there are also a few sailing craft , some with bareboat options . |
46 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |
47 | I assumed you 'd want to know that wreckage of a dinghy was washed up a few miles north of here on the Welsh coast last night . |
48 | Even a few microns difference in the size of a component can cost valuable minutes on the production line as machines are re-set . |
49 | Quite a few I suspect . |
50 | There are quite a few farm watch schemes around the county |
51 | Then they 'll now go into a maths lesson let's go into this , they 're gon na perhaps do that eight times , then they 're gon na get a breather , then a few days time after that the form teacher 's saying right , let's do it again and summarise it , I think it 's too much ! |