Example sentences of "on [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this relatively more subtle classification system which explains why policemen and women were so concerned from the very beginning with the field-worker 's background , schooling , area of residence , affiliations , political opinions , and so on , even those visited on only a few occasions . |
| 2 | Round-bale silage was found on only a few farms and was not as yet widely used . |
| 3 | He was used on only a few favoured bitches , but his influence is still undeniable , his potency incredible . |
| 4 | Calcite was recognised on only a few sections . |
| 5 | It is significant , however , that the feedback involved is fairly simple , and dependent on only a few physical parameters , so that the computations concerned are relatively inflexible . |
| 6 | They were brought out on only a few special occasions and were always carefully washed and returned to their place of honour . |
| 7 | The MMC has wide powers to make recommendations , and the Secretary of State to act on these recommendations , yet on only a few occasions have companies been formally penalized as a result of MMC investigations . |
| 8 | Guidelines have been discovered beneath British mosaics on only a few occasions : the author knows of only two unequivocal examples — the painted lines on the penultimate layer of mortar of the mosaic from building XIII , Beeches Road , Cirencester ( Neal 1981 , no. 26 ) , and the scored circle of the fragmentary mosaic above the Charioteer pavement at Rudston ( Smith 1976 , 6 ) — although , in wall painting such practices were also known ( plaster on display , Jewry Wall Museum ) . |
| 9 | If 1 have concentrated on just a few of these predictions this is , in part , because several of those neglected are not unique to the conditioned attention theory and are readily accommodated by its rivals . |
| 10 | Because production is a continuous process of reinvention , entrepreneurial efforts are focused on many thousands of small ideas rather than on just a few big ones . |
| 11 | That you se it was , it was on here a few times he talks deliberately , and rather slow |
| 12 | on quite a few occasions , Windows ran until the first time I rebooted the computer . |