Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the matches are wet , so we cram down a few handfuls of cheese and boiled sweets . |
| 2 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 3 | Write down a few examples of when you last ( i ) provided food , clothing or other " necessities " for the addict in your life because he or she can not afford them . |
| 4 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 5 | Perhaps a few examples of Smithsonian directors ' thinking in rejecting and accepting material , or even releasing items in the collections , might throw light on the subject . |
| 6 | Beetles , wasps , squirrels etc feed upon the leaves and acorns of the oak ; but a tree that weighs 100 tonnes may produce only a few tonnes of such provender each year . |
| 7 | If you are a small man , with only a few pounds of surplus weight , and are in a big hurry to lose it . |
| 8 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
| 9 | Steel shutters barricaded most of the shops and those that were open displayed only a few boxes of tired vegetables and strings of plastic toys . |
| 10 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 11 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 12 | With only a few islands of relief the Government did very badly in by-elections front the autumn of 1933 to the spring of 1935 . |
| 13 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 14 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 15 | Within only a few hours of the big bang , the production of helium and other elements would have stopped . |
| 16 | I 've nothing against these two teams , but to be deprived of the euphoric English faces after only a few minutes of joy and achievement was an insult . |
| 17 | Comrade Chang , the cadre , speaks only a few phrases of English , but seems a very pleasant man . |
| 18 | Only a few stalwarts of the original L Detachment were included , together with Stirling himself and Paddy Mayne . |
| 19 | Conventional shellac records were very brittle ; only a few ounces of shear stress would crack them in half . |
| 20 | The fact that most of the rainforest is uninhabited , with only a few pockets of indigenous communities , makes exploitation attractive . |
| 21 | While this strategy may be appropriate for a ‘ mission area ’ where only a few pockets of Christians are to be found and they have to decide between going to one place at the expense of another , it must be applied rather differently in a situation where the Church has extensive geographical coverage . |
| 22 | There were only a few spots of blood and all I could think about was how Mum must n't see them . |
| 23 | Tomorrow morning , just the odd light shower about anywhere , but only a few spots of rain , it wo n't be long before the sun comes out yet again . |
| 24 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
| 25 | As Weber ( 1963 ) points out , Sweden , Holland and Denmark are small nations with limited sized labour forces and only a few industries of major importance . |
| 26 | I saw then , through the one eye that would open , that my fire was scattered , that only a few wisps of smoke rose here and there . |
| 27 | Only a few pages of the funeral sermon preached by John Buckeridge , his successor as Bishop of Ely , deal with Andrewes himself . |
| 28 | In this day and age , 100MB is average , and people quite often discover that they 've got only a few kilobytes of space left , and usually at the most inopportune times . |
| 29 | Entrances should be preceded by only a few frames of ‘ dead ’ action , and exits should be equally neat . |
| 30 | ‘ Swainmotes ’ were held at Weybridge in Huntingdon Forest at Midsummer , Michaelmas and Martinmas in the middle of the fifteenth century , but only a few presentments of venison trespasses by husbandmen were presented by the foresters before the verderers between 1451 and 1455 . |