Example sentences of "[conj] a few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility of establishing a taxon or class by fiat encourages anatomists to take one or a few specimens and subject them to very detailed dissection . |
| 2 | Four years and two months ago or a few months but the gas man sort of found it dangerous . |
| 3 | You must always include one Warlord , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or a few characters as you wish . |
| 4 | He had a grey fringe round back and sides , although a few wisps that had once been fair or ginger were combed over the top . |
| 5 | Although a few years since Sunday Caddies were mentioned , they were still controversial , and in 1925 the Harpsden Parish Church of St Margaret sought to ban them under 14 years of age , so as to improve the chances of their attending Sunday School and Church . |
| 6 | You can hardly believe that a few stretchsuits and some nappies can possibly cost as much as they say , but nine months and a lot of shopping trips later , you will have been forced to accept that your new addition has managed to tip the scales severely in the debit direction . |
| 7 | This means that each job is learned completely and thoroughly , but I could n't help thinking that a few musicians and/or luthiers at strategic points around the factory would n't go amiss — groundworkers who actually understand how a guitar works and who could spot problems from the playing perspective , rather than just the engineering view . |
| 8 | Same as sex , you got ta try that a few times and then find out if you like it ! |
| 9 | It is possible that a few cells or nuclei were damaged at the site of crypt bisection and damaged nuclei would not have been measured . |
| 10 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
| 11 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 12 | With little more than a few snorts and grunts , the lumbering animals were coaxed down the ramp . |
| 13 | This exchange of ideas during the class in no way impeded the work of the children , as these conversations never lasted longer than a few minutes and even if two children spoke together they continued their work . |
| 14 | Where " events " last longer than a few hours or one day , the need for order in the relationship is increased . |
| 15 | Do n't worry , Billy , I wo n't stay more than a few hours and by that time I 'll know one way or the other . |
| 16 | Composers are notoriously fickle when it comes to performing their own music , but with a few exceptions ( the first part of the Diptyque being the most obvious , where the innumerable pauses , rallentandos and general changes of speed , not to mention more than a few smudges and slips , have no basis in the printed score ) Messiaen not only fulfils his own written requirements , but does so with utter conviction and persuasiveness . |
| 17 | Books can be sold on their jackets to impulse buyers who may well not read more than a few pages once they have bought them . |
| 18 | Denmark , the country that likes to say no , ruffled more than a few egos when they said yes to becoming European Championship substitutes and drew with England in their opening game before going on to win the trophy . |
| 19 | She had not moved more than a few inches when one of the men broke free , his fist smashing downwards . |
| 20 | He listened to the few men who had survived for more than a few weeks and talked of ‘ Blighty ’ and prayed only for a ‘ cushy wound ’ so they could be moved to the nearest hospital tent and , if they were among the lucky ones , eventually be sent home to England . |
| 21 | No molecule of our body survives unchanged for more than a few weeks or months ; over that period , even in adults , it is synthesized , plays its part in the cellular economy , and is then discarded , broken down and replaced by another more or less identical . |
| 22 | He could n't stay still for more than a few seconds and either paced the ground or fidgeted with his hair , clothes , hands , face and anything else within his reach . |
| 23 | It is a long list , but the SPSSX stepwise procedure seldom selected more than a few predictors as having a significant influence upon perceptions . |
| 24 | It does n't seem more than a few months since I was knitting clothes for her dolls — and now — ’ She held up her needles , speared through the left front of a pearly-white matinée jacket . |
| 25 | Sometimes the possible link can be from much longer ago than a few months and here the memory is almost invariably an unsolved murder case . |
| 26 | My sons ’ dragons are incapable of flying more than a few miles before they fade . ’ |
| 27 | It takes more than a few days but it goes again , just about . |
| 28 | Although recorded annually there is no regular winter population , and birds rarely remain for more than a few days except in severe winters , when considerable influxes occur . |
| 29 | No amount of persuasion would induce her to stay with us for more than a few days before she 'd vanish again to pursue her old habits , and on New Year 's Day 1967 , the police called for the last time . |
| 30 | He looked through the xerox sheets that had been pressed between them but there was nothing too controversial there , just a Jenner Clinic catalogue and price schedule and a few dates and details . |