Example sentences of "a few [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could , of course , join a few million others and draw the dole . |
| 2 | These changes have , of course , encouraged non-Marxists to argue that Marxist theory is now invalid because power is no longer concentrated in the hands of a few economic owners and their friends . |
| 3 | So is this just with a few major accounts or |
| 4 | While the criteria apply to around 260 companies throughout Europe , Jeffrey Knight , special adviser to the Federation , says that it hopes to start the Eurolist early next year with a few major companies and then expand it rapidly . |
| 5 | The writing of a biography is simply impossible for more than a few major churchmen and even fewer secular rulers in the early Middle Ages . |
| 6 | Nightingale Park is in Edmonton and offers a few remaining studios and one-bedroom apartments , priced from £42,000 and £48,000 respectively . |
| 7 | He was able to assure her that in spite of a few twisted ankles and bruised limbs , those same Jocks were skiing not half badly by the time that strange wartime holiday was over . |
| 8 | If we wanted an internal report er to go to a few selected clients that report would mainly be text . |
| 9 | Make your new greenhouse a success by asking a few essential questions before you buy , says Jonathan Edwards |
| 10 | Ironically , fate intervened and he never did make that his career , which is probably just as well , since when he was given the task many years later of steering British Aerospace into the private sector he crossed swords with more than a few civil servants and did n't have a lot of time for them . |
| 11 | Danvers , Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp is cutting prices on its M-8000 bridge product family : it says it will offer a fully H.320 version of its M-8000 Multipoint Bridge starting at $45,000 for the M-8600 with three ports : the M-8600 is for customers with only a few videoconferencing systems and limited requirements for linking a large number of sites on the same call ; the H.320 standards-compliant version will ship in the autumn . |
| 12 | A few sprouted wings and took to the air , without bothering to become birds first . |
| 13 | There are quite a few experienced players and there 's enough dedication to win us some matches . |
| 14 | But predominantly the architecture is distinctively Lincolnshire with a preponderance of old brick farmhouses and barns , a few whitewashed cottages and many , many churches built of local greenstone . |
| 15 | Of the total NHS budget , as we can see from Figure 10.2 , a small part — less than 3 per cent — is taken by the central department to provide central administration , supply a few specialist services and give a few specific grants . |
| 16 | Gary felt it was right to pray about this and share his thoughts not only with God but with a few close brothers and sisters in Christ . |
| 17 | In 1979 he published a paper showing that the perception evoked by stimulating the skin or the neural pathway between the skin and the cortex was reported by the subject as occurring a few hundred milliseconds before the cortical ERP was sufficiently complete to generate that perception . |
| 18 | ‘ Before that , they had just sent them into a studio with a few hundred pounds and the records were almost souvenirs of the live side . |
| 19 | Park after a few hundred metres and don your mountain boots for the approach — and all of two minutes . |
| 20 | Generally speaking the offshore profile is much more gentle , so that a fall in sea level of 30 m ( 100 ft ) , for example , will cause a displacement seaward of the shoreline to the extent of anything between a few hundred metres and perhaps 20 km ( 12 miles ) . |
| 21 | After a simple pre-take off litany ( minus the F for flaps ) which should be familiar to any Cessna 150 pilot , the Aircoupe accelerated down Halfpenny Green 's Runway 34 in a formation take-off , becoming airborne in a few hundred feet before I had to throttle back to keep in station with the hard-climbing 172 camera ship . |
| 22 | The smart metalled road which links the new colonies to Aurobindo Marg gives out a few hundred feet before you get to the village . |
| 23 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 24 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 25 | Go back a few hundred years and look around : there are politicians squabbling for power , priests saving souls , etc . |
| 26 | The ground became firm for a few hundred yards and I ran , my eyes taking in every dot on the horizon , looking for that familiar yellow speck , but I missed seeing a sandy hollow right under my nose . |
| 27 | They went there in the middle of that morning , passing through the gate in the garden wall and along the cliff-path for a few hundred yards and then on to the golf-course . |
| 28 | Dr Clark has written of the eigh-teenth-century Englishman : The agency of the State which confronted him in everyday life was not Parliament , reaching out as a machinery of representative democracy … but the Church , quartering the land not into a few hundred constituencies but into ten thousand parishes , impinging on the daily concerns of the great majority , supporting its black-coated intelligentsia , bidding for a monopoly of education , piety and political acceptability . |
| 29 | Although not only really big natural find came to light , nearly every family group took home a few Roman coins and , perhaps , the odd hammered medieval coin as well . |
| 30 | There were rather more Presbyterians , a few Roman Catholics and Jews , and an overwhelmingly Anglican majority , at least 90 per cent of the party . |