Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 2 | An individual GP probably gets to see only a few cases of Meningitis in his career . |
| 3 | She turned to march away but got only a few inches before she was hauled back . |
| 4 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |
| 5 | CROSS A FAST TYPIST WITH A WINDOWS WORD PROCESSOR AND THE CHANCES ARE YOU 'LL SEE SOME WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH AS THE PROGRAM CHUGS ALONG A FEW PACES BEHIND THE USER . |
| 6 | Sam Baker QC ( almost ) from number 113a had suggested that he ‘ bring along a few bottles of my Australian Chardonnay ’ but no one could face the prospect of being talked through another glass of uniquely flinty , resonantly expressive Murray River Chardonnay by Sam Baker QC ( almost ) . |
| 7 | Two thousand years ago a sex manual written in China laid down a few guidelines for gauging a woman 's sexual characteristics from a careful study of her face . |
| 8 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 9 | But he had travelled only a few miles when he lost his way among the dark country lanes near his home in Diss , Norfolk . |
| 10 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
| 11 | In Germany solo song was neglected altogether and even the influences of villanella and madrigal penetrated only a few years earlier than in England , in the first place through Lassus and two Netherland protégés of his : Ivo de Vento ( d. 1575 ) and Jacob Regnart ( c. 1540–1599 ) . |
| 12 | Each produces only a few drops of nectar at a time . |
| 13 | White Doves is a Victorian terraced house situated only a few minutes from the famous Minster , in a quiet cul-de-sac . |
| 14 | There must be very few bird reserves situated only a few minutes ' walk from the centre of a town which turn out to be as rewarding as Radipole Lake , another RSPB reserve . |
| 15 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
| 16 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 17 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 18 | Fourthly , the field workers were given only a few packets of ORS for distribution among the villagers . |
| 19 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and yesterday the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 20 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and last week the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 21 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |
| 22 | Bravd , galloping along a few feet away , nodded . |
| 23 | But one day he made the mistake , at least from his point of view , of bringing along a few tapes of his favourite soul and reggae music . |
| 24 | There were no preparations at Thornfield , and no visits to the Ingram family , who lived only a few miles away . |
| 25 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 26 | Jess said , climbing down a few rungs . |
| 27 | These qualification courses form a greater proportion of the total training carried out by the libraries who listed only a few programmes for 1984/5 ( see Table 9 ) , in general tending to constitute the main type of development training for non-professionals , especially in smaller libraries . |
| 28 | This should need only a few turns |
| 29 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 30 | It helps to ask the client 's permission to jot down a few facts . |