Example sentences of "[adv] just a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay let's see your essays spend er twenty or thirty minutes talking about the essays and the remainder of the tutorial talking about er the exams because this is the last time I see you before your exams in the tutorial anyway erm so just a few hints and tips on exam technique . |
| 2 | So just a few ideas , not let you know exhaustive but a few ideas to be aware of you 've got appropriate . |
| 3 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | When she is doing anything with children , she always squats down to their level , touches them and listens to them , and the response she gets in just a few moments with each is quite extraordinary . |
| 6 | Although it is impossible to sum up 170 years ’ service in just a few sentences , I would like to congratulate five members of Wimpey Plant and Transport staff who , between them , have given this many years of loyal service to the company . |
| 7 | However secure your income today , however comfortable your family life , this could all be placed in jeopardy by something that happens in just a few seconds … a serious accident . |
| 8 | How can I describe that experience in just a few words ? |
| 9 | Unseasoned and untreated timber , very frequently used in the ‘ sixties and early ‘ seventies in windows and doors , will rot in just a few years . |
| 10 | We ca n't hurt her — humiliate her like this when she 's expecting to marry him in just a few weeks , even if it has been arranged for family reasons , and not for love . |
| 11 | The structured the structured thought patterns gave me an actual er organisation to my talk be it only just a few words on a piece of paper it was simple yet er gave the organisation to the actual talk while you stood up in front of an audience . |
| 12 | He was only just a few yards up the blacksmith . |
| 13 | I needed to share all your life , not just a few hours in bed every night . ’ |
| 14 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |
| 15 | The range of decorative techniques which have been at some time applied to metalwork is a subject for many books , not just a few pages . |
| 16 | It was obvious that not just a few houses , but whole districts including churches , monasteries , and other monuments to past glories would have to be swept aside to allow for the fill appreciation of the splendour of the glorious new order . |
| 17 | To achieve industrial competitiveness normally requires decades of persistent activity , not just a few years , but it can be thrown away very quickly and very easily . |
| 18 | I could have looked after her and been with her so much longer then , not just a few months , not just at the end ! ’ |
| 19 | If America is to win in the new global competition , we need to begin telling one another a new story in which companies compete by drawing on the talent and creativity of all their employees , not just a few maverick inventors and dynamic CEOs . |
| 20 | Already the first squadrons of sepoy cavalry were swooping over the abandoned ramparts and racing for the Cutcherry to kick away just a few inches of that thin trickle of grey powder before it burnt its way home . |
| 21 | New York is n't exactly just a few miles down the road . ’ |
| 22 | He says the victim was walking to her home just a few minutes away along a very busy street . |
| 23 | And an Oxford student has been found hanged at her home just a few days before she was due to return for a new term . |
| 24 | I 'd like to spend erm a few minutes , hopefully not too long because I 'm er known for talking for hours and hours when it comes to our company and our product , but hopefully just a few minutes telling you about our approach to developing an open accounting system . |
| 25 | He stepped up just a few feet from the service line to receive Lendl 's second serve . |
| 26 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 27 | To pull back just a few metres on an Alpine climb is a dozen times harder than on the flat . |
| 28 | Standing beside Josh in the wings , she was barely aware of the play being acted out just a few feet away , too caught up in the playwright 's words to be aware of anything else . |
| 29 | To pick out just a few examples : grandparents treat their grandchildren in the same way whether they live in Aberdeen or London ; middle-class people use money to support their close relatives in similar ways whether they live in Swansea , Sheffield or London ; people use their kin network to help them find employment whether they live in Glasgow , Basildon or Corby . |
| 30 | The group of houses are now just a few yards away and at the sight of the French civilians lining the route , all tiredness is now forgotten and a spring has appeared in our step . |