Example sentences of "just a few [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were just a few strands of grey in his hair , faint lines around his eyes and the sensuous mouth . |
| 2 | Already the first squadrons of sepoy cavalry were swooping over the abandoned ramparts and racing for the Cutcherry to kick away just a few inches of that thin trickle of grey powder before it burnt its way home . |
| 3 | You will find it much easier if you can bring yourself to take the very positive attitude that today the two of you are going to share just a few hours of life together : time that can never come again . |
| 4 | Sometimes within just a few minutes of the arrival of leaf-eating creatures , the tannin content is up to levels which make not only the leaves under attack , but all the other leaves of the tree toxic or at least unpalatable . |
| 5 | She earns between $800 and $1,000 a month , lives in one furnished room , and has just a few possessions of her own . |
| 6 | Just a few bits of timber really . " |
| 7 | With just a few bits of metal and lots of imagination , Meccano addicts can build anything from a replica of Blackpool Tower to a Lancaster bomber . |
| 8 | In your garden display , fireworks have just a few grams of explosive in them . |
| 9 | Their babble of French and Arabic made an awful din , but within just a few feet of us they quietened . |
| 10 | A quick look at just a few areas of today 's public relations work confirms that prediction : |
| 11 | At a base in Hereford , which trains bomb disposal men in the army 's toughest course , bomb teams demonstrated modern explosives … incendiary devices , letter bombs which contain just a few ounces of Semtex , and car bombs , at one pound , just half the size of those favoured by the IRA . |
| 12 | I would describe our time in Siret as being able to see just a few rays of light in a very dark week . |
| 13 | The pictures show just a few shapes of wagon . |
| 14 | A suitable kit includes just a few sheets of basic information about collecting children from playgrounds , marking registers , assembly times , break times , discipline and marking policies , a list of staff and their responsibilities and a sketch map locating various key areas in the school — particularly the location of the staff toilets ! |
| 15 | Just a few drops of these precious essential oils are sufficient . |
| 16 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 17 | Of course , these ideas are just a few ways of making a beautiful start at Allied . |
| 18 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
| 19 | And after just a few sessions of treatment his parents were overjoyed to be told their son could be walking by the time they leave the Capital in April . |
| 20 | And here are just a few examples of how they can help . |
| 21 | These are just a few examples of the types of products that can be found within the leading farm shops in Surrey who will also be exhibiting , including Secretts from Milford . |
| 22 | These are just a few examples of animal-borne infection to which humans are susceptible . |
| 23 | These are just a few examples of the use of modern biological control agents , though as Jutsum ( 1988 ) points out , the commercial value of these is currently less than 1 per cent of the global market value of crop-protection and public health agents ( mainly chemicals ) which currently amounts to $16 000 million annually . |
| 24 | Here are just a few examples of his bon mots : |
| 25 | Let us take just a few examples of strongly formed collectivities with a broadly socialist orientation to illustrate the point . |
| 26 | These are just a few examples of a wide range of security problems that can be encountered in the many disciplines of IT system development and operation . |
| 27 | Doctors ' desires to advance specialisms that they find intellectually exciting , university lecturers pursuing research at the expense of their teaching commitments , engineers wishing to develop technologically advanced products such as Concorde , are just a few examples of the kind of professional aspirations that lead to the misallocation of resources from the clients ' or taxpayers ' point of view . |
| 28 | Here are just a few examples of the rave reviews they got this year : |
| 29 | Under these circumstances , attempting even an interim assessment of just a few facets of change may appear premature ( not to mention hubristic ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Just a few words of encouragement , ’ said Bodie . |