Example sentences of "[prep] just a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 32 | For just a few seconds she stood petrified ; then , taking a deep , shuddering breath , she ran down the entry and into Lyra Street . |
| 33 | For just a few seconds , Lucinda hesitated ; for just long enough to take in the shock of white hair , the lined , weather-worn face and the tremendous size of him . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Had its fabric endured with its frescoes undamaged for just a few centuries longer , it might well have been ranked as one of the world 's Seven Wonders . |
| 36 | The lush farmlands of Combsburgh and the main trade of the little town had come into the hands of just a few landlords . |
| 37 | If the sociologist regards the interview schedule ( and , as we shall discuss later , the questionnaire ) in this way then he will not rush blithely into the field with a schedule which is the product of just a few hours ' odd jottings on rough paper . |
| 38 | The 28,000 mile race could be settled within the space of just a few hours this weekend . |
| 39 | How our lives have changed in the course of just a few decades . |
| 40 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dana ? ’ she asked , feeling as if she had run a mile instead of just a few feet . |
| 41 | The approaches to market segmentation referred to above apply more naturally to consumer markets than to industrial markets , where an entire market may be made up of just a few customers . |
| 42 | Upper Framilode is by far the larger and was originally the location of the Purnells ' extensive iron and tinplate works , of which few traces remain , while Lower Framilode consists of just a few cottages , the mill and the Darell Arms . |
| 43 | There are many delightful alpines with a height and spread of just a few inches . |
| 44 | If you are only planning to follow the F-Plan for a week or two to polish off a modest weight problem of just a few pounds . |
| 45 | And it was n't a case of just a few beatings and that |
| 46 | However , a massive compression can be achieved by creating a relatively short code of just a few bytes which effectively tells the computer that ‘ the next 400,000 bytes will be blue ’ . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Behind the retina is a cascade of other cells , neurones , which are all physiologically of just a few types . |
| 49 | A period of just a few seconds was allowed for recall and if they could recall only one or two letters the subjects were asked to specify their position in the sequence . |
| 50 | Under these circumstances , attempting even an interim assessment of just a few facets of change may appear premature ( not to mention hubristic ) . |
| 51 | ‘ Seems like just a few minutes ago ’ |
| 52 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 53 | The couple , who met only seven months ago , first wed in a hush-hush civil ceremony in Los Angeles in April with just a few friends as witnesses . |
| 54 | She too should find suitable work , and start with just a few hours , perhaps one or two days a week , before building up towards full-time work if she wishes . |
| 55 | Even if you open your account with just a few pounds , you can immediately begin to enjoy the benefits of a good rate of interest . |
| 56 | Its clientele was almost entirely male , with just a few women — secretaries being bought a drink by their bosses , presumably . |
| 57 | With just a few bits of metal and lots of imagination , Meccano addicts can build anything from a replica of Blackpool Tower to a Lancaster bomber . |
| 58 | Going along as a small independent with just a few programmes to your name does render you relatively powerless . |
| 59 | The situation was quiet , with just a few soldiers in the street , for the next few days . |
| 60 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |