Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , at each stage of the criminal justice process , there are only a few cases which get both widespread and sustained coverage in both the national and local press . |
| 2 | ‘ How interesting that after only a few hours you know so much about me . |
| 3 | There are only a few passes which remain open all year , although many smaller routes can be traversed freely throughout the summer months . |
| 4 | If this helps only a few teachers it would still be one step towards our goal of all participants in classes joining the Society . |
| 5 | On their first meal of monarch the jays were violently sick ; but after only a few trials they had learned not to eat monarchs , though they continued to eat other , tasty food . |
| 6 | Where there were only a few birds they were carried in the guard 's van and released at the time and place stated on the label . |
| 7 | Here we can mention only a few events which led to major therapeutic developments , and pass by much else which gave the clues and spurs for progress . |
| 8 | And our Lord in the words that we 've read gives a very solemn answer to that question in the , in those words that we read a few moments ago and his immediate answer to the question you know are there few that be saved , was to say many , this was in the following verse , many shall not be able to be saved , now does that mean that only a few will be saved , that there 's only a few people who are gon na be in heaven that Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for about a handful of people , a small percentage does that what it , is that what it means , well lets look and see what the bible has to say , in Matthew chapter seven in verse thirteen and verse fourteen , this is what Jesus says enter by the narrow gate for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction and many of those who enter by it , for the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life , but few of those who find it any way in the same book , in , in Matthew in , in , in chapter twenty two and in , in , in verse fourteen , listen again to what it says there Jesus is speaking he says for many a called , but few are chosen |
| 9 | After only a few days we were both madly in love , not just with each other , but with this beautiful island in the sun and with Crystal Springs , which we found by accident . |
| 10 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 11 | Having used version 5.5 for only a few days I could never go back . |
| 12 | Because of the low incidence of blindness among school-aged children in the UK there will be only a few pupils who are totally blind . |
| 13 | I did n't have any regular bags in the years leading up to Tom Weiskopf because there were only a few tournaments I could go to . |
| 14 | The ground was soft and spongy and in only a few paces her canvas shoes were soaked . |
| 15 | Given that it is based on a model which examined variation among electoral wards within only a few regions it could be argued that it is more validly applied at a local level . |
| 16 | Sit down at your machine with a cassette player and knit , following Diane 's clear and helpful explanations and in just a few hours YOU will be the master of your machine ! |
| 17 | Just a few things she has to do . ’ |
| 18 | There are just a few questions I 'd like to ask you . |
| 19 | Besides — ’ again she pried her eyes away from the eyeglasses and looked at her cousin ‘ — in just a few minutes you are going to be transformed into a femme fatale . |
| 20 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 21 | In just a few moments you can see how much easier your working life could become . |
| 22 | For just a few seconds she stood petrified ; then , taking a deep , shuddering breath , she ran down the entry and into Lyra Street . |
| 23 | Rather , it invents a sort of simplified version of the training set : When the net has finished learning , the nodes in it form clusters of just a few points which each reflect much larger clusters in the training set . |
| 24 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 25 | A correlator 's input consists of examples with just a few features which can be quite elaborate . |
| 26 | Assembly time is a natural occasion for identifying just a few children who have done well — a whole succession of children called to the front for praise in a single assembly simply devalues the reward . |
| 27 | However , a massive compression can be achieved by creating a relatively short code of just a few bytes which effectively tells the computer that ‘ the next 400,000 bytes will be blue ’ . |
| 28 | An opinion endorsed by not a few others who whispered among themselves — some of them when Amabel was not listening , others when she very obviously was — that Linnet Gage had stolen the show . |
| 29 | Mrs Frizzell snatched up her property , tried wildly to wrap the books in the remains of the paper bag , dropped one of them , picked it up and fled to the cloak-room at the back of the hall , followed by the titters and sniggers of not a few ladies who , knowing the reason for her purchase of the books , could well have rescued her from her predicament , but saw no reason to do so . |
| 30 | But while this method keeps many plant-eaters at bay , there are always a few creatures who have the design capability to deal with the toxins . |