Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves . |
| 2 | A caricaturist look at a face and extracts the significant features so that with a few lines he creates a likeness . |
| 3 | If you have an odd number of needles , you end up knitting the same needles on every row , so that after a few rows the carriage jams . |
| 4 | The Ministers and the Court dignitaries were on the platform to make their farewells , which the Emperor had insisted be short and restrained , so that within a few minutes of his arrival he and his son were on board and the train left to cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 6 | I did so and after a few minutes he said , ‘ Good enough , now you can continue in English . ’ |
| 7 | But it seems sad that so many did not have a more enjoyable sexual introduction , especially when for a few it had been the one and only time . |
| 8 | It will look at the entirety of the obligations undertaken by the firm and determine the nature of the relationship from the whole contract construed in the light of its commercial context rather than from a few words in the contract . |
| 9 | I was desperately trying not to let the cat out of the bag , and a few tricky moments came about just because of a few crossed wires . |
| 10 | He could n't really think that she would stop her investigations just because of a few threats ? |
| 11 | I pulled the wing above my head , steadied it , turned and faced downhill and with a few steps forward , and a gentle push from David , I was airborne . |
| 12 | The case where the complainant had seen the assailant only once or on a few occasions before might well be treated as that of identification rather than recognition . |
| 13 | The strange , rank smell was stronger than ever and after a few moments they all heard a heavy movement close by . |
| 14 | Mr Singh and i drove through the wide streets of New Delhi , empty now but for a few pilgrims washing under the public pumps near the shrine of Nizamuddin . |
| 15 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
| 16 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
| 17 | Anything struck by a poisoned arrow was paralysed almost immediately and in a few moments was dead . |
| 18 | He continued up the hill , and she went on down ; but a few paces further on she stopped and looked back , and it was at that precise moment that it happened , because he had turned back as well and for a few moments they looked longingly at each other , each tongue-tied , but each sure , now , of the other 's feelings . |
| 19 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 20 | a ) Intrusive igneous rocks occur in south Harris and western Lewis particularly , as well as in a few other localities , of which eastern South Uist is the most important . |
| 21 | The seneschal glanced at it briefly but did not appear excessively worried , even when after a few moments — the scullions running past and round them were all carrying pails of water and sand , fire blankets , cutting gear and stretchers . |
| 22 | Jeff , who drove a lead car , explained : ‘ We knew there was a building site there and after a few dollars had changed hands the construction workers used one of their cranes to transfer the three-and-a-halfton generator . ’ |
| 23 | One of the doctors managed to get the laundry going again and in a few days the hospital was evacuated to a small country town . |