Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took only another few steps for Mait to come within range of the other bomb . |
| 2 | Judge Angus Stroyan QC said : ‘ This was no doubt an extremely unpleasant few seconds for the girl but really no more than a drunken antic . |
| 3 | Newcomers to night fishing are always surprised to find how cold it is at night , especially those few hours before and after dawn . |
| 4 | At the end of June , Sir Geoffrey made his own last vain attempt to reassure Hong Kong , flying in briefly for one of the most uncomfortable few days of his long diplomatic career . |
| 5 | It is in just those few cells in the inner cell mass that we have our origins . |
| 6 | Because of the fact that code switching , when it occurs , is pervasive in bilinguals ' speech , and defies analysis on any one level , individual researchers have tended to focus on just those few aspects of code switching which are of particular relevance to them . |
| 7 | With just four minutes remaining , though , the stalest of stalemates was broken by Chelsea captain Andy Townsend , who rounded off an immensely difficult few days for Leeds manager Howard Wilkinson . |
| 8 | he 's got a few bits , there 's still another few bits to be done you know but it just looks such a mess |
| 9 | One method is for the sequence field of the micro-instruction to specify all but the least significant few bits of the next micro-instruction address . |
| 10 | Some computers allow several different test functions to be connected as each of the least significant few bits of the next micro-instruction address , allowing 4-way , 8-way , or even higher order conditional jumps . |
| 11 | National Railway Museum Curator of Operations Ray Towell , who has been with ‘ City of Truro ’ during most of the current tour , commented : ‘ It 's been a hectic and very pleasant few weeks to date but the welcome we 've had everywhere has been magnificent . |