Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A lot A lot of well quite a few people and I mean th have been in the flats way before I came to . |
| 3 | It is presumably because of this innate variability of habitat that there are so many species of organism on land : probably anything between 10 and 70 or more million , compared with maybe only a few hundred thousand in the oceans . |
| 4 | It is not possible at present to assess the taxonomic weight of the character of the arm spine articulation surface on the lateral arm plates , whether of familial or subfamilial worth as only a few species have yet been examined . |
| 5 | ‘ Charles , I lost my virginity when I was twelve , and since then quite a few other things have happened . ’ |
| 6 | Since then only a few have carried the flame in Europe and India , but recently the worldwide growth of homœopathy has started to look again at the LM potencies which Hahnemann describes , in a footnote to 270 as being ‘ the most powerful and at the same time mildest in action i.e. as the most perfected . ’ |