Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went there and found the beach exactly as described , with the clear and tranquil pond only a few yards behind the choppy sea . |
| 2 | " Potentates , diplomatists and militarists made this war " , claimed the most important and vocal British radical group of this kind only a few weeks after the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 3 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 4 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 5 | A pilot who died when his light plane crashed in a wood , had once survived another crash just a few miles away . |
| 6 | Wilkins ' response was to set up another mill only a few hundred yards away , this time using steam power . |
| 7 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 8 | Some need only a few strokes , others need many . |
| 9 | The sitters are evidently at their ease , and in the background we see a representation of the Dutch House at Kew , a favourite place just a few miles from London where they could escape from the formalities of public life . |
| 10 | He became Minister for the Arts in July 1990 and although he was in this post only a few months , he made a distinct mark . |
| 11 | Visitors to the city may easily fail to chance upon Portugal Place which remains an oasis of timeless calm only a few paces from the crowded pavements of the city centre . |
| 12 | You must have met in real life quite a few Baron Ochses when you were in Salzburg in the 1920s . |
| 13 | They both soon scattered when a mortar bomb burst at the entrance to the orchard , sending shrapnel whistling through the trees and thudding into the walls of the little cottage just a few yards away . |
| 14 | Small parties seem to serve their members better when food patches are found for in larger units only a few of the animals present could then be fed ( Dunbar 1977 ) . |
| 15 | Then she turned and walked towards the deep end , turned again and did a perfect back flip , hardly denting the surface and coming up into a smooth breaststroke only a few feet away from me . |
| 16 | This is the countryside that villagers in three hamlets just a few miles from Milton Keynes fear will be eaten up by concrete . |
| 17 | Referee Jimmy Johnston had given a general warning about foul play only a few minutes earlier . |
| 18 | I 've known him since our youth days and we became quite friendly when we were picked to play for Scotland 's Under-20 side together a few years back . |
| 19 | It is a tribute to the skill and wisdom of our ancestors that no outstanding staple crops have been introduced in the past 5000 years , and of those introduced in the past thousand years only a few , like the swede , have a significant nutritional impact . |
| 20 | Despite having visited the country and despite a long interest in the area , even I was not fully aware of the complexities and the depth of feeling in the various component parts of Yugoslavia until I read the quite remarkable book that Chris Cviic wrote for the Royal Institute of International Affairs only a few months ago . |
| 21 | Skipper Mike Harris managed to locate feeding fish on the shallow reefs just a few miles from shore where John Smith , Bryce Smith and Jamie Smith from Meols , and Liverpool tackle dealer Alan Sharpe , included 50 tasty black bream in their haul . |
| 22 | Mini-golf : There are good courses just a few minutes walk from the village centre . |
| 23 | When you get back to the Club Zorna Hotel , the action is still going on , whilst at the International Nightclub just a few hundred yards away , the night 's just beginning — and I went to Yugoslavia thinking it would be restful ! |
| 24 | The arable side of the local economy had been destroyed and whereas many had once found employment in growing corn only a few people were now needed to tend the flocks and herds . |
| 25 | We were based at Nigel 's chalet on the edge of Servoz , a small , sunny village just a few kilometres down the road from Chamonix , conveniently placed for visiting other resorts covered by the Mont Blanc skipass , including Les Contamines , Argentiere , Le Tour , Les Houches and Megeve . |
| 26 | Slightly smaller than Jeanneau 's new protégé , and displayed with considerably less ostentation only a few metres away , was the neat little Sprint designed by Joubert/Nivelt and built by Archambault . |
| 27 | Indeed , for generations the Royal Family have had their own secluded haven just a few miles downriver . |
| 28 | Liz started as an assistant cook just a few months after CCG had won the Grampian contract , but later moved into the office and now bring her experience to bear on a range of tasks . |
| 29 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 30 | All are small islets only a few thousand square metres in extent , which support a few Shetland sheep , a sizable common seal population and a few birds . |