Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he qualified for a few regional events , in fact he was aiming much higher : he wanted a crack at the Open Championship . |
| 2 | After allowing for a few thousand of natural increase , the Serb and Montenegrin population of Kosovo would have fallen from 237,000 in 1981 to about 220,000 in 1986 . |
| 3 | Persian rugs have traditionally been considered the most expensive and easily re-saleable of all oriental rugs , and allowing for a few notable exceptions ( usually older and more collectable items from different parts of the world ) , this assumption has generally held true . |
| 4 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 5 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 6 | Nobody cares about a few thousand Masai . |
| 7 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 8 | Unfortunately I ca n't imagine any chairman introducing measures that would make it harder for him to flog of a few prised assets in order to raise some hard cash . |
| 9 | Without bothering to confirm the report , Guretzky-Cornitz passed it on to Army HQ , embellished with a few boastful addenda of his own . |
| 10 | The wood was added to the aquarium and a few strategically placed plastic plants were added with a few well-rounded , safe , large pebbles . |
| 11 | It all starts with a few slow miles in the suburbs , then out into the Suffolk countryside , with a long trail of runner snaking their way along narrow country lanes . |
| 12 | All of their problems could have been solved with a few simple decisions but they seemed to have been robbed of their ability to think straight . ’ |
| 13 | It was only when I entered the Arab quarter , a network of dusty roads and wastelands of rubble interspersed with a few small houses just south of the city , that a Palestinian remembered the name . |
| 14 | When animals do not fall into a few simple categories , quantitative genetic techniques become more practical . |
| 15 | I would suggest that you build in a few nice easy open questions at the beginning of the session . |
| 16 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 17 | Im happy for us to stick with the present team ( when DOL fit ) , unless we start to make obvious cock ups in one postition. the team looks balanced and functional as it is … just need the forwards to start knocking in a few more goals … |
| 18 | ‘ But I can pencil in a few other little misdemeanours . |
| 19 | This was because the scientific elite of the Athenaeum , on whom the correspondents relied , were well aware that research on controlled thermonuclear reactions was already being furtively pursued in a few British laboratories . |
| 20 | Within the last few years , physicists have come within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero using a new technique called laser entrapment . |
| 21 | City centre lodging houses and ‘ casual wards ’ run by local authorities housed many thousands of vagrants at night , but during the Second World War , when work became plentiful , the numbers dropped to a few thousand . |
| 22 | Eventually , once the temperature had dropped to a few thousand degrees , and electrons and nuclei no longer had enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic attraction between them , they would have started combining to form atoms . |
| 23 | Rent a horse or a motor bike and explore on a few leisurely sorties . |
| 24 | Attempts to improve occupational mobility for them may concentrate on a few professional openings where their colour is defined as an occupational advantage ( e.g. race relations advisers ) or on employers ( e.g. local authorities ) with positive action policies , or self-employment ( small businesses ) . |
| 25 | Her smoking experiences , hitherto , had been confined to a few borrowed puffs from Walter Ash 's cigarettes , and some experimental moments , at the age of twelve , in the school bicycle shed . |
| 26 | On the one hand , production was modernized in ever larger factories and ownership was concentrated in a network of trusts , cartels and syndicates increasingly dominated by a few major banks . |
| 27 | However , until quite recently , the possibility of making recordings in Britain was dominated by a few large companies involved in manufacturing and distributing records as well as originating them . |
| 28 | But the same writer also showed his affinity with the notions of contemporary Christendom by observing that battles were won by a few renowned knights , and the army which had ‘ even one more famous warrior than its enemy must … win ’ . |
| 29 | Even very simple parts , consisting of a few long notes , are effective . |
| 30 | Wetlands transitional to wet pastures were also noted but in spite of considerable travel in these areas , I noted only two active drainage schemes , both consisting of a few open ditches mainly to facilitate surface water runoff . |