Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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1 | When animals do not fall into a few simple categories , quantitative genetic techniques become more practical . |
2 | Why not invest in a few Units — new interchangeable separates in black , white , navy and red and a variety of shapes ? |
3 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
4 | I 'm not asking for a few soothing words to calm my conscience ; if I can , I want to help . |
5 | Rules ensuring media ownership is not concentrated in a few hands , with restrictions on cross media holdings . |
6 | Both the ITC and the Radio Authority are to enforce rules ensuring media ownership is not concentrated in a few hands . |
7 | It was a time in 1941 that he will not forget as a few hours later fifteen year old Tom witnessed the ‘ Clydebank Blitz . ’ |
8 | His complete acceptance of the ‘ protest ’ in ‘ Protestant ’ did not come till a few years later when some leading members of his Mount Merrion , Belfast , congregation insisted that he object to the Church 's ‘ street corner boy ’ activities of picketing the Irish Presbyterian Church General Assembly . |
9 | We are not talking of a few fanatical terrorists , we are talking of a nine million-strong nation in the heart of the Balkans . |
10 | You 're not talking about a few thousand pounds but millions , millions I shall be borrowing from various banking concerns who are willing to lend that money on the strength of my reputation . |
11 | Dana did not reappear for a few days , and during that time I felt I was going mad . |
12 | ‘ I had not worked for a few months so I was ready to do something , ’ is how he explains his reasons for doing it . |
13 | The accident occurred late on Tuesday or early on Wednesday but was not discovered until a few survivors emerged and bodies began floating ashore . |
14 | Gas gangrene , for which an effective cure was not discovered till a few weeks before the Armistice , claimed an ever-increasing toll ; during the April fighting on the Right Bank , one French regiment had thirty-two officers wounded of whom no fewer than nineteen died subsequently , mostly from gas gangrene . |