Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun] and " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
2 | Colonel Durand , in command of the defences , who had only a few militia and the usual garrison ‘ invalids ’ under him , sent a desperate appeal for assistance to Field Marshal Wade , while the sudden departure of people returning to the surrounding countryside — Saturday 9 November 1745 was a market day in Carlisle — added to his difficulties , as an eye-witness recorded : |
3 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |
4 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
5 | Only a few hours and she would be with him again . |
6 | Moeri 's original procedure , of adding the chemicals to the second vat , would however have taken only a few minutes and would have left the reaction in no condition to explode . |
7 | Each individual hearing lasted only a few minutes and none of the accused was allowed legal representation . |
8 | But the time should still be only a few minutes and the parent should go to collect the child and indicate when it is appropriate to join the family again . |
9 | This takes only a few minutes and should be done every few days . |
10 | Tidying your Windows Program Manager will take only a few minutes and might save hours of frustration in the future . |
11 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
12 | Only a few capitals and a little of the marble panelling and mosaic remain of the original decoration . |
13 | But the ground conditions in some parts of Europe make good results extremely difficult to obtain : some areas of Portugal , for instance , have field sizes of only a few metres and exhibit multi-level and multi-seasonal cropping . |
14 | They did so with relations outside a household ( where property was ‘ common ’ ) and within the Zuwaya tribe ; only a few Tibbu and other non-Zuwaya had partnerships with them . |
15 | Detailed experimental analyses of wing-movements during flight are available for only a few species and probably differ in different insects ( Weis-Fogh , 1956a , 1956b ; Jensen , 1956 ; Jensen and Weis-Fogh , 1962 ; Nachtigall , 1966 ; Neville , 1960 ; Vogel , 1966–67 ) . |
16 | The report runs to only a few lines and Treby C.J. of the Common Pleas is reported as holding that ‘ when money is paid in pursuance of a void authority , etc. indebitatus assumpsit lies for it . ’ |
17 | Round-bale silage was found on only a few farms and was not as yet widely used . |
18 | This may range from small areas of earthworks within or at one end of a settlement , to large areas of earthworks with only a few farms and cottages in use today . |
19 | ‘ Otherwise only a few grazes and cuts . |
20 | Although Serb lines are within range of Bosnian artillery on nearby Igman mountain , the Bosnians have only a few tanks and not much ammunition . |
21 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |
22 | Today only a few stones and mounds remain as evidence of its existence . |
23 | At present , the executive takes decisions to release some murderers after only a few years and to keep others in prison for extremely long periods . |
24 | I am more concerned about employers who employ only a few people and whose main criterion is the flexibility of being able to take on staff , to change their hours from time to time and , on occasions , to get them to work 60 or 70 hours a week when they are busy . |
25 | Over to the right the tiny Islay ferry boat was just leaving , taking only a few cars and their passengers on the trip . |
26 | When a cosmic-ray encounters solid matter then in most cases it penetrates only a few millimetres and leaves a detectable track . |
27 | Most of the later graptolites had only a few branches and , in the Silurian , species with only a single branch tend to dominate the assemblages . |
28 | One of the H. Fire development bright colours within only a few days and began a reign of terror . |
29 | Three of these had discontinued treatment themselves after only a few days and failed to keep further appointments , one was found to have severe total colonic disease on colonoscopy , and one was found to have Crohn 's disease ; none of these five patients had side effects from treatment and were deemed unsuitable for analysis . |
30 | We used to have to catch the bus every morning and go to Chingford to school until Mark Hall was built and , erm and there was only one part of Mark Hall school built when we went there , there was only a few classrooms and er , it 's all grew up , the school grew up around us you know it 's a bit |