Example sentences of "in a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has even suggested that a little less fishing might deplete the shoals enough to squeeze in a few vegetables . |
| 2 | Before Folly could take in what was happening , Luke had crossed the room in a few strides and almost thrown himself on to the sofa . |
| 3 | But he was across the room in a few strides , and when he went out , closing the door quietly behind him , Sarella knew he had gone forever . |
| 4 | ‘ The cards have only raked in a few customers , ’ Ashley said . |
| 5 | Meals-on-Wheels ( organised by WRVS ) were available only two days a week ; the social services department had only minimal provision for day care in a few Part III homes . |
| 6 | This change results in a wave of electrical activity passing down the nerve cell membrane — a wave called an action potential that in a few milliseconds passes from the cell body along the axon to the synapse . |
| 7 | ANYONE who feels like investing in a few grams of silver should call up a certain Carroll Jones in his office in Washington . |
| 8 | The first is in relation to debtor-creditor-supplier agreements where the amount owed is to be paid off in a few instalments . |
| 9 | In a few generations , there was a new class of Britons who regarded themselves as part of the Roman empire and ‘ Roman ’ in a broad sense . |
| 10 | Now , just as the long-standing debate had been settled , here was Kammerer adducing experimental evidence in favour of Lamarck 's discredited theory , for he was claiming that the pads had been ‘ re-evolved ’ in a few generations as a direct consequence of the parents being persuaded to mate once more in water ! |
| 11 | Again , it was the darkest ones that survived best , with the result that in a few generations the peppered moths living near the big industrial cities were nearly all black . |
| 12 | They themselves might suffer from the climate , but if they managed to survive and interbreed the chances are that in a few generations their offspring would have reverted to wild-type coats once again , as a result of the inevitable mixing that would occur among the stray cat colonies . |
| 13 | In a few generations , of course , people would want girls again , and values and fashions would change … but in the meantime , what would it be like to be one of an endangered species ? |
| 14 | Minority groups under pressure change , and do so in a few generations : they become bilingual and accept the culture of the larger society . |
| 15 | If we wish to increase growth rate in pigs , for example , we can try breeding only from the fastest growing pigs , and a whole population of fast growing pigs may be obtained in a few generations , if growth rate is heritable . |
| 16 | ‘ In a few generations , all mankind will be vegetarian , ’ said Shelley , waving a knife through the air . |
| 17 | Thus , in a few moths ( Erannis defoliaria , etc. ) , the females alone are apterous , while in the Chalcid genus Blastophaga it is the male which has lost the wings . |
| 18 | I was n't going to rush around buying horribly expensive things like smoke salmon that I could n't afford , I was going to do a big family feast and I was going to get in a few games like the monopoly or lotto or you know , I just , I have n't worked it out but I thought oh what fun |
| 19 | The plan is to grow the lawnmower business over the next couple of years and then float the shares to raise cash to add in a few operations that are less seasonal , and less weather-dependent . |
| 20 | Among adolescents , there is a feeling that Creole is appropriate " among friends " of the same generation , but not for use with parents , except in a few circumstances . |
| 21 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 22 | The hon. Gentleman will know , for he takes a close interest in this matter , that from next year , there is an extra £2.7 billion for the health service in its next budget , in a few day 's time — up another 5 per cent. , including efficiency gains . |
| 23 | However , a machine can only stretch in a few directions and is therefore only of limited value . |
| 24 | However in a few women the periods may become a little heavier . |
| 25 | I think we might as well get in a few things and anyway I want some envelope re-use labels . |
| 26 | He 's been in a few things . |
| 27 | In a few instances , the cone itself was of brick and this form of construction existed at Tibb 's Oast , a mid-nineteenth century oast-house , the conversion of which is described later . |
| 28 | In a few instances the loss of someone close can propel the survivor into an overwhelming emotional whirlpool that can not be contained without expert help or hospitalization or treatment or a combination of all of these . |
| 29 | The introduction of a financial quota system inevitably placed unprecedented responsibilities on most branches and student groups to make tangible contributions to support their activities , and those of the District , which led to predictable objections from some branches and to genuine difficulty in meeting the allocated quotas in a few instances . |
| 30 | In a few instances as might be expected , opinions differ on certain aspects . |