Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |
| 2 | Potentially , RISC programs may have an even larger number of calls since the complex instructions found in CISCs are subroutines in RISC I. Thus the procedure call must be as short as possible , perhaps only a few jumps . |
| 3 | A long time later , or perhaps only a few seconds , she thought she saw her father 's face white as paper , floating among the clouds , then it dissolved into the face of an elderly stranger bending over her . |
| 4 | There is then a pause of perhaps only a few seconds , a semaphore drops , a gleaming red light changes to green , and the long goods train moves out on its journey . |
| 5 | Ms Fitzgerald puts initial demand at perhaps only a dozen companies in the US , but adds that they are leading edge customers which other potential users will be watching carefully . |
| 6 | Furthermore only a few days later , 20th July 1757 , a new lease was made out to Thomas Gunson the treasurer , all of the others ( including a new name , that of George Frears ) having sold out to him for , and in consideration of the princely sum of five shillings ! |
| 7 | Generally , women become familiar quickly with the scent of their infants , and can recognise their baby by smell alone only a few days after birth . |
| 8 | Okay let's see your essays spend er twenty or thirty minutes talking about the essays and the remainder of the tutorial talking about er the exams because this is the last time I see you before your exams in the tutorial anyway erm so just a few hints and tips on exam technique . |
| 9 | So just a few ideas , not let you know exhaustive but a few ideas to be aware of you 've got appropriate . |
| 10 | The structured the structured thought patterns gave me an actual er organisation to my talk be it only just a few words on a piece of paper it was simple yet er gave the organisation to the actual talk while you stood up in front of an audience . |
| 11 | He was only just a few yards up the blacksmith . |
| 12 | Below about a thousand metres oxygen concentrations are fairly static down to the a minimum between five hundred and a thousand metres depth so they 're fairly static . |
| 13 | Everyone will have to buy one of these machines and erm at the moment we might have to pay perhaps about a hundred pounds , but perhaps later these will become very , very cheap indeed and just will become part of the television set . |
| 14 | If we want to work at a high level of stress , however , anywhere near the potential strength of glass for instance , we must be prepared to keep the surface free from even the most microscopic cracks for , if even one crack is allowed to exceed the Griffith length , which may be only about a thousand Ångströms , catastrophic failure will occur . |
| 15 | It was only about a thousand words long but of a high quality . |
| 16 | Up until the beginning of the 1950s , only about a hundred Rottweilers were registered with the AKC . |
| 17 | We had only about a hundred miles to go but the journey was to take twenty-four hours . |
| 18 | Only about a dozen canoeists , including Richard and Paul , have conquered Sgwd-yr-Eira in the Brecon beacons Paul broke three ribs when the pair achieved the feat in January . |
| 19 | And when she was overcome with remorse and apologized so sweetly a few minutes later his admiration for her was boundless . |
| 20 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 21 | Table 2.4 shows that only around a dozen cases are mentioned in more than four of the sixteen newspapers in the study . |
| 22 | It seems that medics have not changed much over a hundred years . |
| 23 | The steppes were the first to be affected , so that in June alone over a million peasants left them for the Volga . |
| 24 | So he writes it down and everybody writes bits about what 's happened , and thus eventually a few questions were asked and reply came from the Super . |
| 25 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
| 26 | Dexter knew it was tempting to ask Lancaster whether he was lying and that he really meant that he could n't face the idea of seeing his wife again , a wife he had murdered and left a bloody corpse on the floor downstairs only a few minutes before . |
| 27 | Already the first squadrons of sepoy cavalry were swooping over the abandoned ramparts and racing for the Cutcherry to kick away just a few inches of that thin trickle of grey powder before it burnt its way home . |
| 28 | New York is n't exactly just a few miles down the road . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It was for the end-title sequence , and Michael Mills liked to have too much film rather than not enough , so the camera was still turning over when Michael got to just under a thousand feet ! ’ |
| 30 | Just under a hundred yards separated him from the police officers of two nations when he died . |