Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him . |
| 2 | It is perhaps ironic that , with such a volume of water just a few yards from the doors , it had to use steam . |
| 3 | A commuter on the M8 would encounter a series of messages on the speed of traffic just a few miles ahead and , if that slowed , or the road were blocked , information on the most suitable diversion could be given in plenty of time to allow a driver to leave the motorway and avoid the hold up . |
| 4 | She died of cancer just a few days after Samuel George was born . |
| 5 | Machines that were seen to be at the forefront of technology just a few years ago are now readily replaced and cast-off with little or no second-hand value . |
| 6 | By contrast , the legends concerning Atlantis and the others refer to a period of time only a few thousand years ago . |
| 7 | The reason for all this is because carp are very hard fish to catch and carp fishermen fish for a long period of time often a few nights and days . |
| 8 | For is this not how such a story should begin , with the cliché of the poor and disenfranchised of the earth , huddling for warmth just a few feet away from champagne-swilling plutocrats glorying in their ascendancy ? |
| 9 | It is not snowing , but there is enough wind to be chilling and the day is grey and misty , so I get little sense of where the camp is , with visibility only a few tens of metres . |
| 10 | You 've been glad enough to have a doctor coming to see you every day — you , John , with your head broken … or you , George , sick and shaking with fever only a few hours ago . |
| 11 | The final decision was taken at the end of October , with victory only a few days away , and was announced with the publication of a letter from Lloyd George to Bonar Law , a letter actually drafted by Law as a summary of their agreement . |
| 12 | Even today , decades after I saw my first such microscope slide , I still think them extravagantly beautiful and can easily get lost in contemplation of the cellular thicket the microscope reveals , made the more intriguing by the curious , almost three-dimensional effect the stain gives ; as it brings into vision only a few of the total population of the neurons present , the cells seem to stand out like trees in a winter mist ( Figure 10.6 ) . |
| 13 | But the measurements show that these differences are small , for example only a few Kelvin at the tropopause . |
| 14 | In addition quite a few manufacturers of household goods are willing to lend their products for use in photographs for non-competing items in return for suitable credits . |
| 15 | In the decades before Emancipation only a few isolated individuals had carried dissent to the point of revolutionary commitment . |
| 16 | It remained in place only a few minutes more , When the Commanding Officer ordered not only a change of the command team which had built it , but a change of design as well . |
| 17 | BTW Ive always felt this — even before I became so anti-scum ( in truth only a few years ago ) . |
| 18 | These are now privately owned and only emerged from obscurity again a few years ago : sphinxes and winged sirens , the heads of minotaurs and owls , personifications of night and masks with invisible eyes . |
| 19 | It is not a very demanding version of the chase , especially on Sundays , when you may well see rows of gunmen in position only a few easy yards from the hotel where they mean to have lunch . |
| 20 | In fact only a few of Scotland 's great views are included but many well known ones elsewhere are covered such as Cat Bells and Snowdon , plus a few less familiar ones such as Mow Cop on the edge of the Cheshire Hills and Bennachie in Aberdeenshire . |
| 21 | Showers were not compulsory and in fact only a few boys took advantage of this facility . |
| 22 | Grant forced himself to hold the challenging stare of the glittering black eyes for what seemed an age , but what was in fact only a few seconds . |
| 23 | Fleeing across the western deserts , abandoned by all but his immediate family , Dara was eventually betrayed by Jiwan Khan , a local chieftain whom Dara had personally saved from death only a few years before . |
| 24 | But although he was beaten for pace quite a few times , it seemed that alot of the time he was out of position . |
| 25 | Some of the early names of this type have disappeared — Ibbotdoghter , Rogerdaughter , Hannebrother , Prestebruther , to instance just a few — and the compounds which survive , such as Hickmott ( which includes magh = brother-in-law ) are very rare . |
| 26 | You might have thought I 'd happily become a little playmate for you to while away a few tedious hours with , but let me tell you , Mr Jacobsen , you were way off the mark . ’ |
| 27 | A reformed chocoholic and one who turned her back on butter only a few months ago , I was interested to see if my attempts to live more healthily had borne fruit . |
| 28 | Indeed , MTB 74 , with her torpedo tubes on the foredeck instead of amidships , was ready for sea only a few hours before the raid , her crew having changed one of her five engines . |
| 29 | One of his worst experiences had been at Sunset just a few days before . |
| 30 | By contrast only a few reptiles , like tortoises and iguanas , are herbivores . |