Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , councillors are part-time and serve on only a few committees . |
| 2 | Most early red-figure appears on only a few shapes : cups , and pots like the one-piece amphora ( figs. 86–7 ) , in which much of the pot was traditionally black and the extension of that to the background of the picture was an easy step and one which integrates the picture more fully with the pot . |
| 3 | We will , therefore , focus on only a few aspects , namely : primary insider trading , secondary insider trading ( tippee trading ) , tipping , and counselling and procuring others to commit an offence under the Act . |
| 4 | So I went back to alight indicator , pulled down only a few inches , which was enough to allow the bream to suck the bait to their lips , and then I paused for a few seconds while I watched the line from the rod-tip tightening in the water . |
| 5 | The central character is so consistently developed that the audience take it for granted the house will fall down only a few weeks after he has started [ sic ] to live in it . ’ |
| 6 | A car radioed in only a few minutes ago . |
| 7 | She was familiar enough with the garden by this time to return in only a few minutes with sheafs of colourful tropical blooms , and she arranged them in two big vases to make riotously informal bunches of colour that lacked classical form but would , she hoped , be pleasing to Faye 's artistic eye . |
| 8 | ‘ Euthanasia is seen as part of good terminal care , practised in only a few cases , the less the better , ’ said Prof Borst-Eilers . |
| 9 | If two of you regurgitate the notes perfectly generally in line with answering the question but then one of you brings in only a few sentences saying , well this could be accounted for with di dum di dum or , if we think about learning and er behaviourism , this has something to say about that . |
| 10 | A second useful way of dating is through overstrikes , but these occur in only a few instances . |
| 11 | However , these were frequently in technical language and sold in only a few outlets ; and many clergy were not concerned with encouraging the laity to grapple with complex issues . |
| 12 | Some of these longer spinelets end in only a few points , others are shorter more rugose with a multipointed crown . |
| 13 | James , Alice and Alfred hurried in guiltily a few minutes later , glaring at each other for being thrust into proximity , the former carrying bread and milk for dinner , and the latter clutching a treasure trove of samphire as a peace offering . |
| 14 | Soon they were airborne , the dragon skimming along easily a few feet from the floor and leaving a billowing cloud of dust in its wake . |
| 15 | Ryan had come along just a few weeks after they took the braces off her teeth and the tits started to look like something ; in those few weeks Jo had had more attention from boys than she could handle . |
| 16 | The report warned : " Unless there is reduction of population growth together with a resolution of the landless peasant phenomenon , it is difficult to see that much forest will remain in just a few decades time " . |
| 17 | When she is doing anything with children , she always squats down to their level , touches them and listens to them , and the response she gets in just a few moments with each is quite extraordinary . |
| 18 | Although it is impossible to sum up 170 years ’ service in just a few sentences , I would like to congratulate five members of Wimpey Plant and Transport staff who , between them , have given this many years of loyal service to the company . |
| 19 | However secure your income today , however comfortable your family life , this could all be placed in jeopardy by something that happens in just a few seconds … a serious accident . |
| 20 | How can I describe that experience in just a few words ? |
| 21 | Unseasoned and untreated timber , very frequently used in the ‘ sixties and early ‘ seventies in windows and doors , will rot in just a few years . |
| 22 | We ca n't hurt her — humiliate her like this when she 's expecting to marry him in just a few weeks , even if it has been arranged for family reasons , and not for love . |
| 23 | So I turned down quite a few sitcoms . |
| 24 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 25 | Ray Wilkins pulled in quite a few votes … 5 per cent … just above him is Ray Clemence … the top four … the heavywweights … the favourites … |
| 26 | Wealth tax exists in quite a few parts of the world . |
| 27 | Teenage antenatal classes exist in quite a few hospitals now , but there are not nearly enough . |
| 28 | So we 've been down there a few times but I said to you did n't I ? |
| 29 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 30 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |