Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many other substances play a minor role as insect pigments , occurring either in small amounts or only in a few species . |
| 2 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |
| 3 | When handpumps break down , they can stand idle for want of maintenance , not for a week or two , or even for a few days , but for the lifetime of all the villagers . |
| 4 | I think it 's a matter that should be approached slowly , perhaps making it necessary to stay overnight , or even for a few days . |
| 5 | The rest of the known world was mainly dominated directly or indirectly by a few European states . |
| 6 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 7 | He was horrified that even for a few minutes he could seriously have contemplated such destructive stupidity . |
| 8 | She had concluded , with relief , that apart from a few episodes of moodiness from Sarah , they had taken it very well . |
| 9 | Everyone goes everywhere by car these days , and perhaps in a few hundred years from now our great-great-great grandchildren will be born with hardly any legs at all because they wo n't have any use for them . |
| 10 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 11 | Fortunately most of the corridors were bright enough and only in a few of the darker , damper ones did he need his torch to see where he was going . |
| 12 | However , the problem for competition policy is that trade-offs are more or less ubiquitous , and only in a few cases ( price fixing or market sharing are examples ) is it possible to reach an unambiguous verdict . |
| 13 | Deceptively , because in practice it is rarely accomplished and only in a few cases have polymer blends or mixtures achieved industrial importance . |
| 14 | The time demanded in maintaining roses is not great , it does not mean a number of hours or days a week , but it does mean a regular tour around , if only of a few minutes ' duration , perhaps in the evenings , with secateurs in hand to snip or prune away faded flowers , and a puff or spray here and there as and when you find aphids or other pests . |
| 15 | Once in the hides , sentries had been posted to protect the company positions , and many of the men took the opportunity to get some rest , if only for a few minutes . |
| 16 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
| 17 | These days the ladies will ride if only for a few hundred yards . |
| 18 | Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep . |
| 19 | Opportunities to relax and let her guard down , even if only for a few hours , had been rare . |
| 20 | We knew it was not true to life but it was a good way to escape our humdrum lives if only for a few hours . |
| 21 | ‘ Thanks , ’ Trent said , to delay his death , if only by a few minutes . |
| 22 | The situation does not occur on stillwaters because there is enough water well out from the banks to allow the beats to be separated , if only by a few yards . |
| 23 | Sooner , rather than later , and generally after a few stiff drams , Joicey would break into the Gaelic , roaring and shouting at the top of his voice : ‘ Man to man it was in those days . |
| 24 | And just for a few minutes she savoured the circuitous routes of pleasure . |
| 25 | She felt his arms tighten around her in a comforting hug and just for a few seconds she allowed herself the luxury of sinking against him , feeling the strength and the warmth of his body next to her skin . |
| 26 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 27 | packing Friday on the way to mum Peter 's mum she told them she 's just in so much pain , she wants it doing so he 's gon na get in , I said , it 's poss that she 'll be in six days and probably off a few weeks after when she gets home it 's operation on her neck and shoulder they 're going to release the nerve they reckon it 's it 's a she told them and do what they will with it . |
| 28 | But Bouncer , a rare white German Shepherd dog , has been stolen , probably to order and probably worth a few hundred pounds to an unscrupulous dealer . |
| 29 | We take our clothes off and I stick my penis into you and pull it in and out for a few minutes and white stuff comes out and you say ‘ Is that it ? ’ |
| 30 | Although intuitive aromatherapy is much derided by orthodox practitioners ( and even by a few scientifically minded aromatherapists ) , it too has its place in the holistic scheme of things . |