Example sentences of "[adv] a few [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 2 | It could cross the open sea , and land on the enemy coast small groups of men who , in raids lasting perhaps a few hours or , at most , a day or two , could do much damage to both enemy property and morale . |
| 3 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Only a few hours and she would be with him again . |
| 7 | The life-shortening effect in LAWER is claimed to be ‘ smaller than that in euthanasia because the patients usually have only a few hours or days to live ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Each individual hearing lasted only a few minutes and none of the accused was allowed legal representation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This takes only a few minutes and should be done every few days . |
| 12 | Tidying your Windows Program Manager will take only a few minutes and might save hours of frustration in the future . |
| 13 | He was inside for only a few minutes and emerged very badly shaken . |
| 14 | Only a few capitals and a little of the marble panelling and mosaic remain of the original decoration . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | Radar and some ovens make use of microwaves , which are only a few centimetres or millimetres long . |
| 20 | ‘ Otherwise only a few grazes and cuts . |
| 21 | Although Serb lines are within range of Bosnian artillery on nearby Igman mountain , the Bosnians have only a few tanks and not much ammunition . |
| 22 | Jack the tiny Shetland pony weighs in at only a few stones and is just over two-feet tall . |
| 23 | Today only a few stones and mounds remain as evidence of its existence . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In fact there were only a few cars but quite a number of pack mules , some horse-drawn carts and one or two carozzelle , fine horse-drawn carriages , most of which had seen better days . |
| 26 | Over to the right the tiny Islay ferry boat was just leaving , taking only a few cars and their passengers on the trip . |
| 27 | When a cosmic-ray encounters solid matter then in most cases it penetrates only a few millimetres and leaves a detectable track . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Some guides are indeed very brief , suggesting visits at breakneck speed where only a few items or rooms will be seen . |
| 30 | Most of these minor illnesses last only a few days or weeks : what are needed , therefore , are the measures quality of life days or quality of life weeks . |