Example sentences of "[adv] to a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | In the Sandleford warren no rabbit of his age would have been asked to tell a story , except perhaps to a few friends alone . |
2 | By the time of its completion the company 's assets were climbing close to a billion dollars . |
3 | Dogs can take you directly to a few kilos of heroin welded into the chassis , but they 're not too good at sniffing out a Renoir . |
4 | The software includes a terminal emulator that integrates Unix applications with Windows by supporting MS Windows Dynamic Data Exchange to transfer data from a Unix session directly to a running Windows application . |
5 | So that although reference is made here to a remote children 's colony , its social significance had much wider reverberations , as indeed did the pedagogical theories worked out by Makarenko . |
6 | Karl , 62 , was sentenced in Bangkok five years ago to a HUNDRED years for murdering his Thai bride-to-be , but was released under an amnesty marking Queen Sirikit 's 60th birthday . |
7 | And once they 've been picked , cut the foliage back hard to a few centimetres from the crowns to stimulate new growth . |
8 | They took us to the police station and then to a battered women 's house at about 2 a.m . |
9 | Irish rugby is notorious for peaks and troughs , so look forward to a few peaks from now onwards . |
10 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
11 | For this purpose I choose the country depicted on Sheet 145 of the Ordnance Survey ( sixth edition ) , which runs from the edge of Oxford northwards to a few miles beyond Banbury , and from Chipping Norton on the west to beyond Brackley in Northamptonshire on the east . |