Example sentences of "[subord] a few [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is drunk , although a few stages short of rat-arsed . |
| 2 | Whereas touristy me — town-bred and with no more knowledge of nags than a few donkey-rides sixty years ago — I rode high and proud on Suzy , a two-year-old Arab who was full of wind and nervous at moving so slowly . |
| 3 | I was obsessed by new clothes to the extent that I 'd lost interest in something if it was more than a few hours old . |
| 4 | It appears never to have remained sufficiently constant to enable benches more than a few kilometres wide to form , at least since the beginning of the Pleistocene period . |
| 5 | It may be possible to reconcile the seismic evidence with fractured rock beneath the lava , which is no more than a few kilometres thick , particularly if the first few sheets that flowed were heavily fractured and were then covered by the sheets we see today . |
| 6 | This deposit mantles the flanks of the pre-existing cone , but is no more than a few metres thick at most . |
| 7 | Luckily they were usually no more than a few feet deep . |
| 8 | Some breeders I rang did n't have any left , others did n't have any chicks of the age I wanted ( and after Barny , I was very wary of buying anything more than a few weeks old ) , and others lived in the Highlands of Scotland or somewhere equally inaccessible to me . |
| 9 | Those marks are no more than a few weeks old , that 's certain , but within that time no one knows when they were made . |
| 10 | Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old . |
| 11 | ‘ When we sent you away , Fergus , you were a babe , no more than a few days old . ’ |
| 12 | If it 's more than a few years old . |
| 13 | ’ Then just think of it , ’ she said with a superior smile , ’ as a few days extra for you to go on pulping your brain with galacvid garbage . ’ |
| 14 | However , complete accuracy is not important , as a few years either way make little difference to its value or collectability ; placing it in the right quarter of the appropriate century will nearly always suffice . |
| 15 | Turning , he saw a barn owl , flying parallel to him , though a few feet higher . |