Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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1 | Then on the fourth month the birds should be in full production of fours , threes and maybe a few twos . |
2 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |
3 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
4 | Then we , father er with doing the bicycles and with interest in other engineering things like gas engines , which seemed to have a , a period of er great prosperity I would say er in the period between nineteen hundred or maybe a few years before that until early twenties the , the gas engines were ideal things for little factories . |
5 | ‘ Five bodies were found yesterday ( Wednesday ) , today another two and just a few hours ago the last body , ’ said a human rights officer . |