Example sentences of "with [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ For the smaller systems , with only a few staff , much of the context ( their list of potential training needs ) may seem irrelevant . |
| 32 | The bride 's mother takes her seat last of all with only a few minutes to spare . |
| 33 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 34 | If you are a small man , with only a few pounds of surplus weight , and are in a big hurry to lose it . |
| 35 | The sauropods instead had teeth in the front with only a few at the sides . |
| 36 | Swapping to Korg 's SPC-1 sound card produced more of the same , with only a few interesting variations . |
| 37 | Go , for example , to a meeting of the European Space Agency and the place will be crawling with European technical journalists with only a few desultory Brits , as often as not from the show-biz pages . |
| 38 | Maybe the Church is n't the answer for some especially those in parishes with only a few young people , but that is why I praise the deanery day as it provides a discussion place for people of all ages , and encourages us — the Church of the future — to make the Church a more appealing and welcoming place . |
| 39 | Then , with only a few hundred yards separating them now from their foes , they set off seawards . |
| 40 | He had a clear picture , for there was virtually no cloud cover , with only a few wispy strips of cirrus streaked like vapour trails against the reddish-brown groundscape . |
| 41 | They are distributed in eastern England , particularly Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire , and in Wiltshire , with only a few examples in Kent ( Figure 2.13 ) . |
| 42 | I try to get through this stage of painting with only a few sticks of colour . |
| 43 | I choose patterns with only a few passes with the lace carriage because all the time this carriage is in operation no inches ( sorry centimetres ) are being added to the length of the garment . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | In monkeys the lateral geniculate nucleus projects almost exclusively to the primary visual cortex , with only a few axons straying into the surrounding secondary cortical visual areas . |
| 46 | Data on accelerated soil erosion in the tropics is generally derived from small experimental plots , with only a few years of data . |
| 47 | The last meeting was held on Oki premises a few weeks ago with only a few friends of the family in attendance . |
| 48 | Some of the technology the group is using such as speculative loads has never been used before and as a result the designers believe the specification will stand unmodified for the next twenty years with only a few extensions . |
| 49 | In Britain , fertility fell surprisingly uniformly over the different regions of the country ( Brass and Kabir 1978 ) with only a few exceptions ( Woods 1987 ) . |
| 50 | With only a few islands of relief the Government did very badly in by-elections front the autumn of 1933 to the spring of 1935 . |
| 51 | Outside it is severe , with only a few small windows and most of those grilled . |
| 52 | Now , however , she was dying of tuberculosis and , with only a few weeks of life left , the past was very much on her mind . |
| 53 | He is said to have been deprived of the royal household and nobles with the counsel and consent of all his people , and to have fled from Bamburgh with only a few companions , which would suggest an almost outright rejection . |
| 54 | He lifted the skeleton bunch of grapes — now with only a few fruit clinging on precariously — back to the metal bedside cabinet . |
| 55 | With only a few exceptions all those aged 18 or over are liable to pay the same basic charge . |
| 56 | It 's not as though he 's a tourist with only a few hours . |
| 57 | Most of them had already breakfasted and he shared the dining-room with only a few others . |
| 58 | The initial ribbon development along the Ermine Street frontages with only a few irregular side-lanes and possibly one large building ( No. 1 ) . |
| 59 | This may range from small areas of earthworks within or at one end of a settlement , to large areas of earthworks with only a few farms and cottages in use today . |
| 60 | When the house was finished , he hid himself away for months at a time , with only a few good friends and his beloved books and garden . |