Example sentences of "to a few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And due to a few unforseen obstacles some did n't even manage that . |
| 2 | The coffee cups were all laid out on long white-napped tables , and waiters hovered over the silver urn , dispensing coffee to a few early arrivals . |
| 3 | We were ushered into the boardroom at the back of the building and were treated to a few welcoming remarks from Derek Jefferson , in his familiar , cheerful and very effective style . |
| 4 | But today , the flooding was limited to a few rural spots where roads were closed and even the main railway line between Swindon and Bristol was under water . |
| 5 | It will discourage the all too common , careless " triggering " of a response ( usually chronological and narrative ) to a few familiar words . |
| 6 | So she had jumped to a few incorrect conclusions about Piers . |
| 7 | Those scavengers living their entire lives in those caverns underneath Kefalov were merely an extreme example of segmented vision — their whole cosmos reduced to a few cubic kilometres of debris . |
| 8 | This would guarantee " the perfect security of all the principal statesmen in the House from the effects of local or individual prejudices or enmities … [ or ] some accidental offence to a few individual members of a constituency , or some petty and miserable pique " . |
| 9 | Due to a few simple changes on employment records , the cleaning income was tax-free . |
| 10 | And our optional Payment Protector plan covers you against loss of income in the event of sickness , accident or compulsory redundancy ( subject to a few simple conditions ) . |
| 11 | In the first two reports of the Commissioner , he drew attention to a few technical problems , such as wrong numbers being intercepted , and he did make recommendations as to how the procedures should be modified , describing these as being of ‘ no great importance ’ . |
| 12 | Well-dressed older men now pay the higher fare to travel through Beijing by minibus , avoiding the slow , jammed and steamy buses on which the youngest and strongest men fight their way to a few rickety seats . |
| 13 | I do n't remember ever being afraid , and I would boast of my nocturnal activities to a few close friends , who were duly impressed . |
| 14 | A further wave of activity occurs after the interviews have taken place , and then things should tail off as offers are made to a few selected individuals . |
| 15 | If we wanted an internal report er to go to a few selected clients that report would mainly be text . |
| 16 | Make no mistake , there are many who believe ( again not without considerable self-interest , that the serious business of running airlines should be left to a few major carriers — except , perhaps , for a few local services . |
| 17 | With support for the 88000 RISC as a system architecture dwindling to a few hardy companies , a core 88open unit will continue to service their requirements , testing and branding system software and applications . |
| 18 | With support for the 88000 as a system architecture dwindling to a few hardy companies , a core 88open unit will continue to service their requirements , testing and branding system software and applications . |
| 19 | For reasons principally of economy , most county councils have preferred to concentrate development on a few villages which can then conveniently be provided with the full range of public amenities — schools , shops , libraries , sewerage facilities and so on-This saves on the enormous cost of duplicating amenities in every village and helps to direct and contain population growth to a few well-chosen sites . |
| 20 | This and a similar arrangement by Kenneth II for lands in Lothian came to be regarded by the English as an admission that Scottish rulers were not equals but vassals in relation not merely to a few specific regions but to the whole of Scotland — which had never been contemplated by the Scottish signatories . |
| 21 | Eventually , as the lunchtime crowds subsided officewards and the pub was left to a few loud tourists , they found a quiet corner and sat down with their drinks . |
| 22 | Thus it is pointed out that support for microelectronics has been biased towards the south of the country , and it is argued that emphasis on a division between sunrise and sunset , on finance at the expense of manufacturing , on entrepreneurship and new firms as opposed to restructuring existing industries , will all encourage the confinement of the fifth wave of economic growth to a few small areas of the country . |
| 23 | Essential meaning I introduce Gerry to a few friendly drinks . |
| 24 | And then we went to a few Western shops to get our costumes for the Urban Cowboy premier . |
| 25 | Her smoking experiences , hitherto , had been confined to a few borrowed puffs from Walter Ash 's cigarettes , and some experimental moments , at the age of twelve , in the school bicycle shed . |
| 26 | Now we can begin to see the outlines of a theory of human personality and cultural development which is elegant indeed and which reduces to a few general principles many of the random and apparently unsystematic motions of human history and culture . |
| 27 | Armed with a basic knowledge of the major compositional schemes , the prospective collector or student should be able to recognize many of the more distinctive contemporary rugs and limit the less obvious ones to a few possible sources . |
| 28 | For lasers based on atomic transitions , this limits the available wavelengths to a few discrete lines , and even for molecular liquid dye lasers the practical tuning range for a given dye is limited to about 50 nm . |
| 29 | Erm we 'd better get on to a few other things . |
| 30 | Statistical packages will now perform a battery of sophisticated multivariate analyses that reduce unwieldy correlation matrices to a few succinct dimensions . |