Example sentences of "and [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several contractors have had it and it 's never been right and eventually a few days or weeks later a man comes round to pick up the grass which has already flown everywhere so it 's too late and a wa total waste of money . |
| 2 | Travel has been easier than in the upper course valleys and so a few villages have grown to become market towns . |
| 3 | ‘ … a little cottage , and perhaps a few chickens . |
| 4 | The crucial question is whether the arbitrator 's is a typical authority , or whether the two features picked out above are peculiar to it and perhaps a few others , but are not characteristic of authorities in general . |
| 5 | You may live within a few metres of many if not most of the plant and animal species ever recorded in Britain , and perhaps a few that are new to science . |
| 6 | I had greatly looked forward to the meeting , hoping to hear words of wit and wisdom about the law , and perhaps a few good legal anecdotes . |
| 7 | We might run in the chaps I saw , and perhaps a few others , if they maintain a twenty-four hour guard on the place . |
| 8 | The narrowest such " we " -group is that of the domestic family itself , parents and their young children and their co-resident retainers ( if there are any ) , but the category " kinsmen " also embraces grandparents and grandchildren , married siblings and their children , married children , uncles and aunts , first cousins , and perhaps a few more . |
| 9 | Many of you will remember Her Majesty the Queen 's visit in 1984 when she opened the Queen 's Library at Sighthill , and perhaps a few of you will recall the Duke of Edinburgh 's visit in 1965 . |
| 10 | Disappointment for Oxford , joy for Swindon and perhaps a few more converts to Rugby League . |
| 11 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
| 12 | A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries . |
| 13 | I knew only that they happened there in the darkness and only a few feet from the pavements . |
| 14 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 15 | She exuded power : the power to change a boy 's destiny with a stern shake of her head and only a few official-sounding words . |
| 16 | Among vertebrates , no mammals , and only a few domestic strains of birds , are parthenogenetic , but there are wild ‘ species ’ of lizards consisting only of parthenogenetic females . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm sure that the majority of runners have to get money because you can not survive without it , and only a few are in a position to do otherwise . ’ |
| 18 | With an equal number of doctors and town watchmen in the city , about 50 , no gas and only a few oil lamps illuminating the winding streets and alleys , the dark work of the Resurrectionists went ahead almost unhindered . |
| 19 | The land was therefore made into a coach road , allowing farm labourers and market gardeners access to the fields , but during the reign of George I , this long-established route was closed by the Surveyor General and only a few privileged people were allowed to use it . |
| 20 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 21 | Although OSS was no more , the idea of having some form of intelligence agency to operate abroad had taken root and only a few months later Truman changed his mind . |
| 22 | Normally she would never have allowed such a thing on her own doorstep , but with the street lights out and only a few candles glimmering , no one would see . |
| 23 | Patrick Chauvel and I could see things were about to happen in Panama , Noriega had declared war on America , but it was Xmas and only a few of us went there . |
| 24 | In this country between 5 and 10 per cent of cases of gonorrhoea in women go on to develop a degree of tubal involvement , and only a few of these will lead to peritonitis . |
| 25 | First , there is the question of condition : with a few exceptions the books listed have their entire life in front of them , certainly hundreds of years , and only a few are even what the booksellers would call ‘ reading copies ’ . |
| 26 | The audience too seemed miles away and only a few coughs could be heard . |
| 27 | For the programme pick-up , Basil Hilton and Tony Geluch were using a single condenser microphone suspended centre stage and only a few feet above the conductor 's podium . |
| 28 | By comparison the scientist is burdened with his instruments and only a few of the greatest of them feel the infinite but the mystic is drowned in it . |
| 29 | In 1987 the ‘ Black Album ’ of pop singer Prince was withdrawn before it was issued , and only a few genuine copies ‘ escaped ’ . |
| 30 | The Laboulbeniales demonstrate a high degree of host specificity , and by this criterion are highly advanced ; most infect only a single species of arthropod , or at most a small group of closely related host species , and only a few are known to occur on a variety of distantly related hosts . |