Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pictures show just a few shapes of wagon . |
| 2 | Although Serb lines are within range of Bosnian artillery on nearby Igman mountain , the Bosnians have only a few tanks and not much ammunition . |
| 3 | Captain Dunbar 's been around now for over a year and most of Madeleine 's suitors last only a few months , so we think it 's serious . ’ |
| 4 | Occasionally some specimens do not have such a dense covering of spinelets and the interradial areas have only a few scattered spinelets with a greater number on the radial shields . |
| 5 | Since martial law was imposed , with army checkposts everywhere , and a heavy plainclothes police presence , protests last only a few moments . |
| 6 | Most of these minor illnesses last only a few days or weeks : what are needed , therefore , are the measures quality of life days or quality of life weeks . |
| 7 | D. Each year the farmers plough only a few of their fields , but they do this in a slow rotation , leaving the sown grass for several years , as a long ley . |
| 8 | The national competition successes come just a few weeks after site newsletter Risley News was voted the north 's Newsletter of the Year at the Guardian Editing Awards , staged by the Northern region of the BAIE in Manchester . |
| 9 | Today most ports have only a few fishing boats but large fleets still work from three of the ports . |
| 10 | In your garden display , fireworks have just a few grams of explosive in them . |
| 11 | Where primroses and cowslips grow together a few will be hybrids between the two with large primrose-like flowers on top of a tall stem , like a cowslip . |
| 12 | The bulk of reviews in these papers cover just a few subject areas . |
| 13 | His mother 's claims come just a few days before the publication of a report into the case of seven mental patients , who died after they were discharged from hospital . |
| 14 | The colonies vary widely in shape : some are shrub-like , with numerous slender branches , others have only a few , or even a single branch . |