Example sentences of "[adj] than a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a disarming lightness to the popular No. 7 ( its Mazurka affiliation charmingly highlighted ) , but No. 10 in C sharp minor is much less assured than a few years earlier ; No. 15 commences sadly off pitch and No. 16 is less ‘ driven ’ or trenchant than in the earlier and greatly celebrated account . |
| 2 | And , indeed , the sheer prevalence of Essene thought in the Holy Land at the time also bears witness to a congregation more numerous than a few conclaves of ascetics sequestered in the desert . |
| 3 | It had a resale value , even if it was no more than a few lire . |
| 4 | Loverboy tries hard to be hilarious , but raises no more than a few laughs . |
| 5 | Benn , the WBC title-holder , countered : little more than a few inches from his hated foe 's nose , returned the observation in kind . |
| 6 | Many great rivers — the Ganges and the Indus , the Amazon and the Yangtze — are so muddy that the animals swimming in them can not see more than a few inches ahead . |
| 7 | Most of the 400,000 people who turned out to watch saw little more than a few sparks over the Scheldt . |
| 8 | In fact over the 1950s the Tories never won as much as half of the popular vote , and were never more than a few percentage points ahead of Labour — percentage points which are nonetheless crucial within the British electoral system . |
| 9 | Of whom there were more than a few I would imagine , thinking of how she had thrown herself on the poor defenceless Marcus . |
| 10 | It will take more than a few scandal-mongers to sink him . |
| 11 | You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone . |
| 12 | In the case of Santiaguito , there is little evidence that the dome is actually growing at all — one can sit and watch it for hours without seeing anything more than a few wisps of steam from the top — and it 's quite safe to scramble all over it . |
| 13 | First , at currents of more than a few amps , capacitors that can carry the current without suffering di/dt stress , heating stress , and MHz ringing tend to be physically large , and expensive compared with normal power supply capacitors . |
| 14 | The apparatus required for imprinting , and then for measuring the efficacy of the imprinting response , was large and elaborate ; it was impossible to train more than a few birds at a time . |
| 15 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 16 | When examined in respect of his own involvement , von Keller denied that more than a few objects had been taken ; and stated that , as to his having appropriated the dormeuse for himself , there was never any question of sharing it . |
| 17 | Saving on housing is more than often , very unwise , when depreciated over a period of 10 years , the extra cost may be no more than a few eggs per bird extra . |
| 18 | Her pleading frail voice went straight to my heart every time , and quite often I would crack her more than a few eggs to make up the dozen . |
| 19 | That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus . |
| 20 | The ‘ patchwork pieces ’ could never be economically viable because they took time to cut , arrange and bag , yet were never sold for more than a few pence . |
| 21 | The male of the species is an unadulterated chauvinist who will not allow the females of his harem to move more than a few feet from him . |
| 22 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 23 | And excellent sight is most important if your world is in the air or your head is more than a few feet above the ground . |
| 24 | Now , as always at the beginning of the rainy season , dense black clouds began to roll in over the Residency from the direction of the river , advancing slowly , not more than a few feet above the ground and masking completely whatever lay in their path . |
| 25 | They hesitated among the thick heather , unable to see more than a few feet ahead . |
| 26 | A shy doe stood stock-still , observing us from no more than a few feet away . |
| 27 | None of them was out by more than a few feet . |
| 28 | From more than a few feet it was impossible to tell even the sex of the figure . |
| 29 | Luckily they were usually no more than a few feet deep . |
| 30 | This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone , but is no more than a few metres thick at most . |