Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] [art] " 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 | The following exercise would take only a few minutes every day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In only a few moments the sheets , the bedding , all drenched . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A neutron star has a radius of about ten miles , only a few times the critical radius at which a star becomes a black hole . |
| 8 | Only a few years a go the coal board was proud of the work of the pit deputy . |
| 9 | Within only a few years the company was exporting its products to central Europe , Russia and the US . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The first is to design and construct local services for the majority of mentally disordered people who live in their own homes and who may use mental health services for only a few weeks every few years . |
| 13 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And after just a few minutes the cold was starting to get through . |
| 16 | But just a few minutes the vicar arrived , and despite the Church 's apology insisted the crosses would have to go . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In just a few cases the bonds that lie behind these transactions have survived , which show how his loans were arranged and secured . |
| 19 | In just a few days the centre will be a hive of activity . |
| 20 | The completed portraits now hang in the Quaderia dell'Ospedale Maggiore , and can be seen on occasions , for just a few weeks every other year as a rule . |
| 21 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 22 | Clare asked Carolyn , casually , if she was interested in taking on a few hours a week . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 25 | I first became involved when my youngest child started attending the playgroup and I was asked to work there a few mornings a week . |
| 26 | This waiting was the worst part , creeping forward a few feet every twenty minutes . |
| 27 | Pedestrians scampered blindly across the road to catch waiting buses , the cars jerked ahead a few yards every time the traffic lights turned to green . |