Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [adv] a few " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was once a dairy farm but with the introduction of milk quotas only a few cows are kept now to provide milk , cheese , cream and yogurt . |
| 2 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 3 | Kohl , on the other hand , will have to live with a politically obtuse gesture that is being compared to his appearance with American President Ronald Reagan , in May 1985 , at a Bitburg cemetery where they laid remembrance wreaths only a few yards from rows of graves of SS soldiers . |
| 4 | These stories occur world wide , so I will limit myself to two which are told of sites on the Yorkshire Wolds only a few miles from where I live . |
| 5 | Support for it has come from the observation that both the brain and the conventional digital computer ( i.e. the one hard-wired only for its machine code ) seem to be surprisingly homogeneous in their internal structure , which led to remarks like Newell 's ( 1973 ) ‘ … intelligent behaviour demands only a few very general features in the underlying mechanism ’ . |
| 6 | Part of the explanation is that artificial selection changes only a few characteristics at a time , whereas in nature many changes occur simultaneously . |
| 7 | Set among the pine trees just a few yards from the white sandy beach , the hotel has immediate access to all facilities in the Forte Hotel Village , at no extra charge , in addition to its own select amenities . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't believe you know Maximilian Keller , ’ the big man said , making introduction gestures awkwardly a few inches above the surface of the sea , ‘ and Jo-Ann Sills . |
| 9 | ‘ It distresses quite a few people when they find out the difference . |