Example sentences of "with just a few " in BNC.
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1 | And with the Arc such an established part of the racing scene , Paris will be bursting with Britons this weekend , with just a few hundred going on a punting pilgrimage to Dublin . |
2 | In a natural arrangement use mainly medium size headed flowers with just a few large heads |
3 | Going along as a small independent with just a few programmes to your name does render you relatively powerless . |
4 | She too should find suitable work , and start with just a few hours , perhaps one or two days a week , before building up towards full-time work if she wishes . |
5 | Even if you open your account with just a few pounds , you can immediately begin to enjoy the benefits of a good rate of interest . |
6 | But do not judge the size of a shoal by the number of fish you see rolling , for it could be a big shoal with just a few fish rolling , or a small shoal with all the fish rolling . |
7 | B. Some towns have attracted more people than others , so there is a hierarchy of sizes , with just a few large towns and many smaller ones . |
8 | In America , wind is already being used by small communities with just a few well-designed windmills to supply all their power needs . |
9 | Its clientele was almost entirely male , with just a few women — secretaries being bought a drink by their bosses , presumably . |
10 | The situation was quiet , with just a few soldiers in the street , for the next few days . |
11 | With just a few basic materials , I now have paintings hanging on walls in relatives homes . |
12 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
13 | Look at plants from all angles to determine how they can be used — maybe you could remove the petals and make a smaller flower with just a few of them ? |
14 | The couple , who met only seven months ago , first wed in a hush-hush civil ceremony in Los Angeles in April with just a few friends as witnesses . |
15 | A simple matt black sweater , with just a few tiny red glass beads or minute sequins scattered over it , would look lovely in movement and gorgeous to wear on Christmas Day . |
16 | With just a few honourable exceptions , congressmen fawn over him whenever he comes to town . |
17 | Sometimes , a tree may be all female , at other times , mostly male with just a few branches carrying fruits from female flowers , and at other times again , the flowers will have both male and female organs , as is the case in most other flowering plants . |
18 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
19 | But if building rocky edifices is not your style then you can keep them in a tank with just a few normal caves ( or flowerpots ) ( Lanistes shells being regrettably unavailable to hobbyists ) . |
20 | A correlator 's input consists of examples with just a few features which can be quite elaborate . |
21 | Second , if the Liberals and Social Democrats had been able to squeeze a few more votes from Labour supporters , then it could well have been the Labour Party that finished up with just a few seats in parliament out of all proportion to votes cast . |
22 | They are narrative , and tell us of a situation , or prepare us for some significant message : Once having told us the story , set the mood , and prepared us for the shout of a choir of angels , Handel could paint a triumphant musical fresco with just a few poetic words : |
23 | We will try to illustrate these possibilities with just a few examples , though it is naturally impossible to cover the subject adequately in a short space . |
24 | WADING THROUGH mud or swimming through a cold ravine with just a few oatcakes and nuts to keep you going is not very one 's cup of tea , but for six Risley lads it was fun . |
25 | But it might be as well for those of you with just a few years to go before you have to repay your loan to check with your insurance company that there 's going to be enough in the kitty to repay it . |
26 | The wedding started with a simple service in City Hall with just a few witnesses , but once the hotel heard that Brenda and Pete wished to get married on the beach , they were swept off their feet . |
27 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
28 | There was no rain overnight so that the ground er is good with just a few soft places . |
29 | The break-up of the coalition and Churchill 's formation of a ‘ caretaker ’ government , consisting largely of his Conservative supporters together with just a few non-party men , followed almost at once . |
30 | Thus studies which , for example , have involved showing subjects a series of slides with just a few of them being arousing , e.g. autopsy slides ( Kramer , Buckhout , Fox , Widman & Tusche , 1991 ) or disfigured faces ( Christianson & Nilsson , 1984 ) , have shown impairments in memory for paired associates to the arousing stimulus or anterograde amnesia for subsequent slides . |