Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week . |
| 2 | DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West , including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany . |
| 3 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
| 4 | He turned his attention to the exploited — and , it was believed , unreachable — casual workers in the iron ore mines , women and men earning only a few rupees a day , living in squalor in dusty shacks on devastated hillsides . |
| 5 | Only a few years a go the coal board was proud of the work of the pit deputy . |
| 6 | SIR , — Harding and colleagues ( April 17 , p 999 ) confirm our observation that patients with malignant germ cell tumours treated in specialist units have better survival than those treated in hospitals that see only a few patients a year with this malignant disorder . |
| 7 | The early response has not been enthusiastic , though aides insisted yesterday that for many households the new tax bills would amount to only a few dollars a month . |
| 8 | There is even a special plan which enables you to insure your repayments — in case of illness , an accident or redundancy — for just a few pounds a month . |
| 9 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 10 | Clare asked Carolyn , casually , if she was interested in taking on a few hours a week . |
| 11 | The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground . |
| 12 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 13 | I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week . |