Example sentences of "of a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any selection of a few new titles , therefore , is bound to be especially arbitrary ; I can only plead that I 've made it as wide as possible . |
| 2 | Spanish Masonry had its ultimate origins in the deistic humanitarianism of a few eighteenth-century esprits forts . |
| 3 | With a little bit of orchestration , and the application of a few time-tested psychic tricks , I will soon be ready to steer her into a shocking spur-of-the-moment theological and sexual conversion . |
| 4 | The congregation of St Nicholas consisted of a few poor people from the neighbourhood and otherwise of less poor people from various parts of the city or from Birkenhead across the Mersey . |
| 5 | It does not move them that the cost of looking after the hundreds of thousands of Thais who are likely to be infected by 1995 will far exceed that of a few cancelled holidays . |
| 6 | One unexpected spin-off was the growth of a few genuine friendships . |
| 7 | Meanwhile pacifists were generally content with the abstract moralizing suggested by the Manchester Guardian 's opposition to the formation of a Liberal Foreign Affairs Committee on the grounds that the ‘ success or failure [ of foreign policy ] depends on the application of a few simple principles to facts which as a rule are not very numerous nor very complicated . ’ |
| 8 | This might consist of a few simple rules and procedure to control decision-making and conflict , for example . |
| 9 | Eventually this ‘ top down ’ approach can lead to the level of a few simple English statements or a small amount of programming code . |
| 10 | This could be replicated , at least superficially , by boiling in a concentrated caustic soda solution to give a white patination ; the addition of a few rusty nails would then turn the patina brown . |
| 11 | We are not talking of a few fanatical terrorists , we are talking of a nine million-strong nation in the heart of the Balkans . |
| 12 | If I chose not to reap the benefits of this scheme then I might consider the fate of a few ungrateful citizens who had thought likewise and then seen their homes repossessed , had been inflicted with uncanny storms that ripped tiles from roof and threw chimney stacks into the street , had undergone torment at the hands of timeshare salespeople , had been billed for new and exorbitant taxes and had been struck off their doctors ' registers . |
| 13 | He called for action to tackle the difficulties without ‘ shaming the reputation of this country and infringing the civil liberties of a few helpless people whose only sin has been to seek freedom and our protection ’ . |
| 14 | Ironically , the actions of a few Western governments , led by the United states and including Britain , could finally kill off the nodule-mining industry before it even begins to operate , and all in the name of protecting the industry . |
| 15 | A new generation of middle level developing countries is facing the difficult transition from being exporters of a few traditional commodities and receiving most external finance in the form of official aid to a varied pattern of trade and production , combined with use of more commerical loans or investment . |
| 16 | IBM 's talk of a few orderly spin-outs could prove naively optimistic and it could be forced to jettison whole businesses that , under more favourable conditions , it would wisely prefer to retain , imperfections and all . |
| 17 | With the exception of a few intervening slabs , the routes are always steep , rarely less than overhanging or more than 25m , on near perfect rock and well equipped with bolts and chains for ‘ moulinette ’ . |
| 18 | If that means throwing hundreds out of work , or depriving families of a few extra pounds by delaying interest rate cuts , then so be it . |
| 19 | The fitting of a few extra valves solved the problem . |
| 20 | The real power lay outside the House of Commons , in the hands of a few rich magnates and aristocratic landowners . |
| 21 | As Veljanovski points out , ‘ if wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few rich landowners who buy Rolls Royces and caviar , then allocative efficiency will be consistent with the poor starving and the economy 's productive capacity channelled into the manufacture of these luxury items . |
| 22 | The more power in Europe lay in the hands of a few strong States , the more a State system emerged in which the position of each was established through the recognition of the others . |
| 23 | If you look through the components lists of a few recent projects you will no doubt find some that only use common components , but most seem to use at least one or two ‘ specials ’ . |
| 24 | These changes have , of course , encouraged non-Marxists to argue that Marxist theory is now invalid because power is no longer concentrated in the hands of a few economic owners and their friends . |
| 25 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 26 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 27 | There are a few other initiatives that , for a capital sum of a few million pounds , hold the prospect of bringing forward such a radical transformation of the immediate circumstances of poorer people , and the extent to which they control their own lives . |
| 28 | Well for the sake of a few million pounds the Conservatives will slash this area , that area , will say we need to close this unit , that unit . |
| 29 | She had been ridiculously cheap because of a few slight zebra markings . |
| 30 | With the exception of a few large-scale programmes ( Giaretto , 1982 ; Sgroi , 1982 ) and a single case study ( Kolko , 1986 ) , little is known about the suggested success of specific approaches . |