Example sentences of "by a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a stout-hearted , even an obstinate man , not to be deterred by a few bruises , and not to surrender his charge without a struggle . |
| 2 | The Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers is still in existence , kept going by a few enthusiasts , and the papingo shoot is held annually in June . |
| 3 | The red-brick government-issue buildings stand isolated within a security fence , surrounded even today only by a few houses , fields , orchards and small villages housing some of Britain 's finest racehorse stables . |
| 4 | Instead of a series of national financial systems linked by a few operators buying and selling credit across the exchanges , we now have a global system , in which national markets , physically separate , function as if they were all in the same place . |
| 5 | At Monza , he beat Jochen Rindt by a few feet and the championship was his , even though he did not win another race that season . |
| 6 | It was a few feet by a few feet with a bench to sit on . |
| 7 | She would have passed me by a few feet , perhaps not noticing me . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's a patch of grass a few feet by a few feet , ’ I informed him , suddenly aware that Mr Palmer had never visited Chelsea Terrace in his life . |
| 9 | If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally . |
| 10 | The pension can be drawn in full for the first eight weeks in hospital , after which your parent will be notified that it will be reduced by a few pounds ( for the exact amount of the reduction see the current issue of leaflet NI9 ) . |
| 11 | Another day of dreadful toil had come to the industrial ghettos of early Victorian Glasgow , a world often forgotten and ignored , a world echoed throughout Britain where families lived and died bounded by a few streets , walled from the world of green and life by an invisible fence , a dead hand that bound them in chains of language , and rags , and marked them for life more surely than any thief was ever branded at Glasgow Cross . |
| 12 | Some farmers cured their own bacon but most of the curing was done commercially by a few firms established for the purpose . |
| 13 | Innsbruck , the famous Olympic ski resort is another excursion where you have a fascinating guided coach tour of the city followed by a few hours to explore for yourselves . |
| 14 | Our morning walk along the cliffs gave us terrific views of the secluded white sand bays dotted along the coastline followed by a few hours on Pompièrre beach where the locals meet to picnic . |
| 15 | It does not seem , in general , valuable to postpone death by a few hours at enormous cost . |
| 16 | We 've been told to take off times , but if there 's one certainty , they 'll be rescheduled by a few hours before the season starts . |
| 17 | Fortified by a few bottles of champagne , he told a disbelieving audience that his main love in life was ‘ screwing ’ . |
| 18 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 19 | The expedition which the king led to Scotland in the winter of 1341–2 was unpopular : according to Murimuth he was attended only ‘ by a few knights ’ , and Arundel , Huntingdon , and five other earls declined the invitation to serve . |
| 20 | ‘ I dare say , but I 'd far rather be playing snooker with a few of the boys , accompanied by a few pints of beer — preferably Devil 's Dram . |
| 21 | A quick walk down Coronation Street was followed by a few pints of Newton and Ridley Ale before we departed . |
| 22 | The french windows were still open by a few inches . |
| 23 | In the end , it was much easier than she had thought to push the silver door open by a few inches and to stand listening , trying to see , trying to hear , trying to feel the lingering dark presence . |
| 24 | From this angle he could see what he had not noticed before : the drawer of the cabinet , open by a few inches , and , inside , picked out clearly in the lamplight , an envelope with two words written on it in Greek . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ The turntable ladder only just fitted into the churchyard by a few inches . |
| 26 | Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium . |
| 27 | These are approximations in which the very large number of particles are replaced by a few quantities . |
| 28 | The Ministers arrived at first light to find the palace dark and empty , the huge rooms barely lit by a few lamps placed here and there showing the furniture covered in drapes . |
| 29 | As at other sites , the trace metal contamination — first lead , then zinc — predated the onset of acidification by a few decades . |
| 30 | The idea that there might be intelligent lifeforms — indeed , civilizations more advanced than our own — on other worlds has been resisted vociferously by fundamentalists of various religions and , astonishingly , by a few scientists . |