Example sentences of "there [am/are] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are even a few herrings for good measure . |
| 2 | Here , there are no strictly male or female tasks or roles ( there are even a few female ‘ headmen ’ ) ; there are no purely male or female personality attributes ; there is no gender difference in access to ritual knowledge , no ‘ men 's clubs ’ or ‘ men 's houses ’ ; and there are no puberty rites or other rites of passage defining differential ideals of manhood and womanhood . |
| 3 | There are even a few who I 'm sure do n't have a care in the world , although I 'm almost prepared to stick my neck out and say that they 're in the minority . |
| 4 | If there are just a few of them write down their full names , titles and relevant facts about their background and attitudes . |
| 5 | Now there are just a few but they are large modern deep-sea trawlers , with more comfortable quarters — and some can freeze the fish at sea off Iceland , Canada or Norway . |
| 6 | He explained that ‘ As far as laboratory chemists are concerned there are just a few specific uses [ for tetra ] — they have tended to avoid it because of the toxicity ’ . |
| 7 | There are just a few questions and we 'll let you go back to the Vicarage . |
| 8 | In this battle , thankfully , there are just a few bruises |
| 9 | There are just a few questions I 'd like to ask you . |
| 10 | Before the war they were split between two empires : Ottoman and Persian After 1925 they were split between four states : Turkey , Iran , Iraq and Syria ( there are also a few Kurds in the Soviet Union ) . |
| 11 | Just outside Kos town , the Atlantis II is in a quiet spot only ten minutes walk from the discos and twenty minutes to the town centre and there are also a few bars and restaurants nearby . |
| 12 | There are also a few indoor pools . |
| 13 | There are also a few special sailors ' clinics in ports , but even so two-thirds of patients will be seen and treated by private practitioners . |
| 14 | There are also a few ‘ elite ’ schools mainly former white boarding schools . |
| 15 | There are also a few recorded instances of non-predators eating small animals on an opportunistic basis , for example giraffe ( Evans , 1970 ; Western , 1971 ) and red deer ( Furness 1988 ) . |
| 16 | There are also a few records for January , but only two for the first half of February . |
| 17 | I now live in a small Perthshire village , substantially less homogeneous than the one in which I grew up but in which there are also a few catholic families and where the majority are of presbyterian Scottish/Ulster stock . |
| 18 | As well as the above scale type there are also a few chordal/arpeggio ideas used . |
| 19 | As well as the above scale type there are also a few arpeggio ideas employed . |
| 20 | But there are also a few who do not behave properly in their dealings with the public . |
| 21 | There are also a few rules about pictorial balance . |
| 22 | Staying with the African bagrids , there are also a few others that will be just as good . |
| 23 | There are also a few video loops showing the actual scenes to which the various drawings refer . |
| 24 | There are also a few low-calorie convenience dinners that are allowed . |
| 25 | There are also a few that we simply would n't have bothered with , either from past experience or through reputation ( or lack of it ) . |
| 26 | Their fleet consists mainly of motor yachts and sport fishermen , including the 120ft ( 36.5m ) Obsession and Allegro , a 73ft ( 22m ) sport fisherman , although there are also a few sailing craft , some with bareboat options . |
| 27 | There are also a few experiments in Earth geometry that gain from the rapid transfer of data between distant schools . |
| 28 | There are also a few cases where we can roughly predict the location of a particular error . |
| 29 | There are however a few large and careful terracotta figures of more significance . |
| 30 | However , the conflict between modern farming practice and environmental conservation is by no means an irreconcilable one and , although entrenched positions have been taken up on both sides , there are now a few signs of a more sophisticated awareness of the Problems involved and a more constructive desire on the part of both farming organizations and the environmental lobby to overcome them . |