Example sentences of "of just a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The lush farmlands of Combsburgh and the main trade of the little town had come into the hands of just a few landlords . |
2 | If the sociologist regards the interview schedule ( and , as we shall discuss later , the questionnaire ) in this way then he will not rush blithely into the field with a schedule which is the product of just a few hours ' odd jottings on rough paper . |
3 | The 28,000 mile race could be settled within the space of just a few hours this weekend . |
4 | How our lives have changed in the course of just a few decades . |
5 | ‘ What 's wrong , Dana ? ’ she asked , feeling as if she had run a mile instead of just a few feet . |
6 | The approaches to market segmentation referred to above apply more naturally to consumer markets than to industrial markets , where an entire market may be made up of just a few customers . |
7 | Upper Framilode is by far the larger and was originally the location of the Purnells ' extensive iron and tinplate works , of which few traces remain , while Lower Framilode consists of just a few cottages , the mill and the Darell Arms . |
8 | There are many delightful alpines with a height and spread of just a few inches . |
9 | If you are only planning to follow the F-Plan for a week or two to polish off a modest weight problem of just a few pounds . |
10 | And it was n't a case of just a few beatings and that |
11 | However , a massive compression can be achieved by creating a relatively short code of just a few bytes which effectively tells the computer that ‘ the next 400,000 bytes will be blue ’ . |
12 | Rather , it invents a sort of simplified version of the training set : When the net has finished learning , the nodes in it form clusters of just a few points which each reflect much larger clusters in the training set . |
13 | Behind the retina is a cascade of other cells , neurones , which are all physiologically of just a few types . |
14 | A period of just a few seconds was allowed for recall and if they could recall only one or two letters the subjects were asked to specify their position in the sequence . |
15 | Under these circumstances , attempting even an interim assessment of just a few facets of change may appear premature ( not to mention hubristic ) . |