Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is that the Viking badge today adorns a range of cars that only a few years ago would have been impossible to imagine . |
| 2 | In the treeless streets between high blank walls one saw no cars and only a few people . |
| 3 | And erm there was half a dozen shops and quite a few , spent most of me life there . |
| 4 | They opened the gates by the steps and quite a few people are coming and going through them now . |
| 5 | The process was never completed owing to a lack of consensus in a number of important areas and only a few piecemeal changes have been made over the years , most recently the creation of Schools in 1989 . |
| 6 | Around 700 warders are stationed at the Belfast jail which houses loyalist and republican remand prisoners and only a few sentenced prisoners . |
| 7 | There were no enemies and only a few night-time predators on the steppe ; however he was pleased to note that elementary security was not being neglected . |
| 8 | The same pattern of asexual reproduction occurs in water fleas , aphids and even a few lizards . |
| 9 | In the afternoon we arrived at the truly beautiful island of Mayero which has no boutiques or roads and only a few hundred inhabitants . |
| 10 | The air was quite filled with hundreds and hundreds of swifts , wheeling and turning in the sky , with dozens of swallows and sand-martins and just a few house-martins lower down over the water . |
| 11 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |
| 12 | A bridge over the river at Halling has been a debating point for a great number of years and it is a wonder , considering that here has been a main crossing place for hundreds of years and possibly a few thousand , that some structure has not been built . |
| 13 | However , the work involved in generating enough statistical observations to produce a reasonable sample size for an examination of 10 potential shares is still considerable and beyond the means and inclination of most private investors and quite a few professional investors/fund managers . |
| 14 | Fragments of paper were missing from some of the pages and quite a few names were faded , some almost beyond recognition . |
| 15 | Many were sent to psychiatric hospitals and put in overcrowded wards with real mental patients and only a few overworked nuns to supervise them . |
| 16 | The need for laboratory investigations should be determined by the clinical problems posed by individual patients and only a few tests need be considered as routine ( table III ) . |
| 17 | Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns . |
| 18 | The grateful customer sent Tina a box of chocolates but only a few days earlier she had vowed not to eat any chocolates because of Lent . |
| 19 | A number of salts are found in the soils of arid regions but only a few are generally quantitatively significant — , , , , , and KCI . |
| 20 | Well he 's hit me while I 've had my kid in my arms and quite a few times . |
| 21 | As Weber ( 1963 ) points out , Sweden , Holland and Denmark are small nations with limited sized labour forces and only a few industries of major importance . |
| 22 | Then we did a show 1935–55 in which we included the first Americans and quite a few British artists , since they were fairly late going into constructivism . |
| 23 | There are no easy answers but maybe a few guidelines as to what might be happening , for Margaret , staring dry-eyed and forlorn into a new day , and for all the other people who have ever had that sort of feeling . |
| 24 | Well if if you add to those two factors , erm isolation and and loneliness , erm then the consequences can vary I mean certainly there were large numbers or quite a few elderly people up in the flats , who who survived who survived very poorly really . |
| 25 | By comparison the scientist is burdened with his instruments and only a few of the greatest of them feel the infinite but the mystic is drowned in it . |
| 26 | In the shade beneath them pigs , dogs , domestic fowls , horses and even a few ancient buffalos swarmed in a stinking congregation . |
| 27 | ( There are plenty of white working-class boys and even a few policemen who do not hold pronounced racist views . ) |
| 28 | Savary-Miller grading of the oesophageal mucisa was confirmed by biopy specimens taken from all macroscopic lsions and also a few centimetre proximal to them or , if no lesions were visible , from a site 3–5 cm above the oesophagogastric junction . |
| 29 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 30 | THREE years of undergraduate study now requires 10 to 20 paperbacks where formerly a few solid textbooks sufficed . |