Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A company where only a few outside interests own the shares . |
| 2 | THREE years of undergraduate study now requires 10 to 20 paperbacks where formerly a few solid textbooks sufficed . |
| 3 | The apparent advantage of variance reduction is diminished if , as is much more often the case with surveys than with experiments , many somewhat disparate characteristics are under review rather than just a few correlated variables . |
| 4 | That behaviour demanded more suffering than just a few uncomfortable hours . |
| 5 | We have like , we have hundreds of crap facilities rather than just a few good ones . |
| 6 | More than just a few grey hairs here and there . |
| 7 | Fountain trays are also shallow and likewise can offer little to aquatic plant life , other than possibly a few submerged oxygenating plants . |
| 8 | There are no mother-in-law jokes , although inevitably a few ethnic ones slipped in . |
| 9 | Because he thought that he was dealing with the National Press rather than simply a few local people whom he had been ignoring for a considerable time , the Mayor responded to direct questioning , even if he did not change his colours . |
| 10 | In fact the largest body of migrants , those from the British Isles , had no significant linguistic difficulties , whereas quite a few internal migrants had , e.g. in the multi-national empires of central and eastern Europe . |
| 11 | Bristol fixture is a 100 hundred years old … and it was a happy birthday for the cherry and whites as they ran away with it … there 'll be no telegrams from the Queen for Bristol though just a few nasty looks from the coach … first try was scored by Neil Matthews and Gloucester with help of a penalty were 11-6 up at half-time … |
| 12 | From the first days of August , the president has had trouble even articulating the war aims , as not a few American commentators pointed out before ‘ supporting our boys ’ , prayer breakfasts , and a patriotism that may be more anxious than it yet seems , silenced them . |