Example sentences of "in [noun] [adv] a few " in BNC.

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1 In addition quite a few manufacturers of household goods are willing to lend their products for use in photographs for non-competing items in return for suitable credits .
2 Ladislav said later that there had been a murder in Roztoky just a few weeks earlier .
3 It remained in place only a few minutes more , When the Commanding Officer ordered not only a change of the command team which had built it , but a change of design as well .
4 Their dark waters , in places only a few hundred yards across , were met by vertically plunging forest , wreathed in mist , and for the most part deathly quiet .
5 BTW Ive always felt this — even before I became so anti-scum ( in truth only a few years ago ) .
6 It is not a very demanding version of the chase , especially on Sundays , when you may well see rows of gunmen in position only a few easy yards from the hotel where they mean to have lunch .
7 It is very strange to find , after wearing thick overcoats in Peking only a few weeks ago , that we are in the middle of hot summer weather ( by British standards ) here .
8 In fact only a few of Scotland 's great views are included but many well known ones elsewhere are covered such as Cat Bells and Snowdon , plus a few less familiar ones such as Mow Cop on the edge of the Cheshire Hills and Bennachie in Aberdeenshire .
9 Showers were not compulsory and in fact only a few boys took advantage of this facility .
10 Grant forced himself to hold the challenging stare of the glittering black eyes for what seemed an age , but what was in fact only a few seconds .
11 My hon. Friend will have welcomed the substantial arms and explosives finds in Belfast just a few weeks ago .
12 In Vienna quite a few of them had gone around in a crowd together , boys and girls .
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