Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | If hypnotics are prescribed , enough tablets for only a few nights should be given at any one time and the medication stopped once the period of distress is over . |
| 2 | Kleiman suggested that this was because his shadowing task had occupied space in the readers ' " working memory " — a kind of short-term memory useful in retaining numbers and words for just a few seconds . |
| 3 | Relative savings of only a few percent in this area can therefore mean sizeable savings in absolute terms . |
| 4 | Go , for example , to a meeting of the European Space Agency and the place will be crawling with European technical journalists with only a few desultory Brits , as often as not from the show-biz pages . |
| 5 | Igfets have strange characteristics , which mean that they are not much use at frequencies of below a few kilohertz . |
| 6 | For instance , one could have a form in which special interludes have a natural place such as : There are of course many variants of such schemes , suitable for use in single-movement works of 20-minute duration down to short movements of only a few minutes . |
| 7 | This may range from small areas of earthworks within or at one end of a settlement , to large areas of earthworks with only a few farms and cottages in use today . |
| 8 | In America , wind is already being used by small communities with just a few well-designed windmills to supply all their power needs . |
| 9 | This is due to the fact that we are no longer told to add crushed rusks to our babies ' bottles at just a few weeks old . |
| 10 | The success of modestly-priced courses such as East Horton and the increasing popularity of driving ranges , where anyone can turn up with a three wood and a five iron and whack a basket of balls for just a few pounds , shows that golf can still thrive in the recession — if the price is right . |
| 11 | Although the finding of typical , oval , thin-shelled strongyle eggs on faecal examination may be a useful aid to diagnosis , it is important to remember that substantial worm burdens may be associated with faecal egg counts of only a few hundred epg , due either to low fecundity of adult worms or to the presence of many immature parasites . |
| 12 | We will try to illustrate these possibilities with just a few examples , though it is naturally impossible to cover the subject adequately in a short space . |
| 13 | Some of the technology the group is using such as speculative loads has never been used before and as a result the designers believe the specification will stand unmodified for the next twenty years with only a few extensions . |
| 14 | Moreover , few families can have such secure or cheap fuel supplies today as those who can obtain their annual needs from only a few days work spent cutting , drying , hauling and stacking peat . |
| 15 | One of the H. Fire development bright colours within only a few days and began a reign of terror . |
| 16 | Many types of pelargoniums make splendid plants for summer bedding and patio planting , in particular the Irenes , many of the coloured leaved and other zonals , ivy-leaved and scented varieties plus even a few of the regals . |
| 17 | I choose patterns with only a few passes with the lace carriage because all the time this carriage is in operation no inches ( sorry centimetres ) are being added to the length of the garment . |
| 18 | As breeding birds Moorhens are common , occurring wherever there is water ; even ponds of only a few square yards frequently hold breeding pairs . |
| 19 | In fact they have to be trained — starting with distances of only a few feet from , and within sight of , the loft . |
| 20 | Danvers , Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp is cutting prices on its M-8000 bridge product family : it says it will offer a fully H.320 version of its M-8000 Multipoint Bridge starting at $45,000 for the M-8600 with three ports : the M-8600 is for customers with only a few videoconferencing systems and limited requirements for linking a large number of sites on the same call ; the H.320 standards-compliant version will ship in the autumn . |
| 21 | Heads it 's Spring … a lovely display of Easter bonnets from just a few of the 25 children who took part in a magnificent parade at the Sally Ann Playgroup , Amery Street , Alton on Friday morning . |
| 22 | Very large numbers of synonyms for even a few home addresses can make it impractical , however . |
| 23 | Also in New Guinea are sympatric birds of paradise apparently dealing with fruit in a similar way , staying in the trees for only a few minutes , perhaps through fear of predators . |
| 24 | These correlations arise because a normal mode , although formally involving the whole molecule , may actually involve significant motions of only a few atoms constituting a discrete group , and hence have a frequency primarily determined by the group and only slightly affected by the nature of the rest of the molecule . |
| 25 | Rather , it invents a sort of simplified version of the training set : When the net has finished learning , the nodes in it form clusters of just a few points which each reflect much larger clusters in the training set . |
| 26 | It is this incredible flexibility that allows us to juggle page layouts in just a few minutes and produce a fresh piece of artwork each time rather than wait hours , even days , for the re-worked page to come back from the artist 's studio . |
| 27 | Guidelines have been discovered beneath British mosaics on only a few occasions : the author knows of only two unequivocal examples — the painted lines on the penultimate layer of mortar of the mosaic from building XIII , Beeches Road , Cirencester ( Neal 1981 , no. 26 ) , and the scored circle of the fragmentary mosaic above the Charioteer pavement at Rudston ( Smith 1976 , 6 ) — although , in wall painting such practices were also known ( plaster on display , Jewry Wall Museum ) . |
| 28 | The net result could be a rise in sea levels by just a few millimetres . |
| 29 | ‘ Those men are his friends of quite a few years … ’ |
| 30 | The daily body rhythms are timed similarly in different individuals , and in the same individual on different days , with regular differences of only a few hours between the timing of , say , the body temperature rhythm in ‘ larks ’ and ‘ owls ’ , for example . |