Example sentences of "[det] [conj] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say this because a few days ago Spurs were linked with a different ( Swedish ) defender , so may have pulled out any interest . |
| 2 | This gives a jumble of echoes that will sometimes persist for as much as a few seconds after the original sound has ceased . |
| 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 | You must always include one Warlord , but apart from this you are free to choose as many or a few characters as you wish . |
| 5 | Schools in all but a few pockets of the county are expected to find enough people willing to stand for election in September when 1,600 governors are due to be appointed . |
| 6 | Outside the months of breeding all but a few species disappear to wintering grounds well south of the Arctic Circle ; thus the arctic has over 150 species of breeding land birds , but only eight of them reside on the tundra all the year round . |
| 7 | The problem here is not so much to prevent partners leaving before reaching retirement age ( any such general prohibition would be unrealistically restrictive in all but a few firms ) as to ensure that as little damage is done to the firm as possible when they do . |
| 8 | The Scottish Institute , however , feels that the system is ‘ satisfactory in all but a few cases ’ . |
| 9 | As suggested above , one of the central planks in Lord Devlin 's argument that the law does not simply exist to protect the individual , but also to protect society , was the fact that in all but a few cases the victim may not consent to the commission of an offence against themselves . |
| 10 | In all but a few cases their treason had been petty , enlisting in the German ranks after being taken prisoner or something of that sort . |
| 11 | In all but a few cases interviews were taped . |
| 12 | In all but a few cases , a solution will be provided immediately or within a couple of hours . |
| 13 | Registered land conveyancing is delightfully simple , both as to deducing and investigation of title , and official forms are obtainable that , with minor adaptation , will serve in all but a few cases . |
| 14 | But it had been proved to the satisfaction of all but a few sceptics that such an event would result in an effect similar to the collapse of a dwarf star . |
| 15 | The moon was not yet up and a high , thin bank of cloud obscured all but a few stars . |
| 16 | For example , foreign electronics firms have pre-empted the creation of a domestically-owned electronics industry in all but a few countries . |
| 17 | Political society formed a complex network of lordship and service , in which all but a few misfits had some place . |
| 18 | Political society formed a complex network of lordship and service , in which all but a few misfits had some place . |
| 19 | The writings of one of the great visionaries of the period , the Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , were not allowed to be published and he remained little more than a name , if even that , to all but a few scholars . |
| 20 | For all but a few weeks in the year there is the demand of regular attendances and rehearsals , often at unsocial hours , as well as regular private practice . |
| 21 | Conventional programs ( Fig. 2 ) embed the knowledge in the instructions , making it very difficult for all but a few programmers to understand the logic of the program . |
| 22 | All but a few households in Britain relied for heating on solid fuel fires in the principal room , and few considered it necessary to heat bedrooms or bathrooms continuously , even in winter . |
| 23 | For all but a few types the LOB corpus alone is too small a source from which to reliably derive information about how likely a word is to belong to a particular grammatical category ( many words in the LOB occur just once ) . |
| 24 | The would-be island , now with hermetically sealed borders and excluding all but a few tourists , is full of noises . |
| 25 | It had a resale value , even if it was no more than a few lire . |
| 26 | Loverboy tries hard to be hilarious , but raises no more than a few laughs . |
| 27 | Benn , the WBC title-holder , countered : little more than a few inches from his hated foe 's nose , returned the observation in kind . |
| 28 | Many great rivers — the Ganges and the Indus , the Amazon and the Yangtze — are so muddy that the animals swimming in them can not see more than a few inches ahead . |
| 29 | Most of the 400,000 people who turned out to watch saw little more than a few sparks over the Scheldt . |
| 30 | In fact over the 1950s the Tories never won as much as half of the popular vote , and were never more than a few percentage points ahead of Labour — percentage points which are nonetheless crucial within the British electoral system . |