Example sentences of "a few [noun] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many European countries worry that the countries of the former Soviet Union , from which only a few emigrants have escaped since the second world war , could revert to their 19th-century role as big exporters of people . |
| 2 | ARMED with microscopes , miniature drills and an infinite capacity for taking pains , a few palaeontologists have redrawn their profession 's picture of early life . |
| 3 | The atmosphere is good-humoured , with a strong sense of relief that adults can for a few moments get together without thinking of what is to be done next with twenty or thirty demanding , stimulating and occasionally frustrating children . |
| 4 | Bernice took a few moments break from her search to reach up and snap it off . |
| 5 | After a few moments Endill slowly put up his hand . |
| 6 | Outside the Bank of England he put the bag on the ground to have a few moments rest . |
| 7 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 8 | After a few moments search Thiercelin succeeded in tracing the relevant issue and spread the broadsheet on the table , translating hesitantly into French for the benefit of his colleague . |
| 9 | A few players do n't even know what is the capital of France when they 're in Paris playing the French Open . |
| 10 | ‘ Quite a few players have got to be worried and I include myself among them . |
| 11 | I was disappointed that Yorkshire did n't want me , but quite a few players have made good careers for themselves after slipping through their net and I am determined to become another . ’ |
| 12 | A few commentators have seen signs of hope in the recent refusal at appeal of applications for large centres alongside the M1 near Leicester and at Cribbs Causeway outside Bristol . |
| 13 | But Mr Carefull , 76 , of Helhoughton , Norfolk , used his cash to make more than a few prayers come true by helping others . |
| 14 | Only a few authorities have been treated in this fashion and they are the councils which have substantially exceeded government targets for local expenditure . |
| 15 | Indeed , a few authorities have retreated from corporate structures-management teams have been disbanded and some chief executives dismissed . |
| 16 | A few showers restore the green to west Mediterranean islands , and the sea 's still warm enough for swimming . |
| 17 | If just a few processes need soft water , it is practicable to pipe the soft water to the machines concerned . |
| 18 | But of Hippys ' work on Italy only a few quotations survive , and these are about foundation myths of places , or physical curiosities . |
| 19 | Everyone agrees , however , that a few TNCs control the global trade in grain , as well as the trade in other basic commodities . |
| 20 | As long as only a few predators hunt in the same area , each aposematic family is likely to produce several survivors . |
| 21 | A few infections arise from inanimate sources : for example , pathogens that cause tetanus are harboured in the soil . |
| 22 | A few businessmen admit privately to admiring his honesty , if not always his fervour . |
| 23 | A few States benefit most from this expenditure , notably those around Washington DC itself ( where potential contractors may gain advantages from locating in proximity to the Pentagon ) , plus Massachusetts , Texas , California , Washington , Maine and Missouri . |
| 24 | A few states conduct population estimates , but the lack of a consistent downward trend in the number of pelts harvested is taken to indicate that the populations are n't overexploited . |
| 25 | Only a few firms have won manufacturing licences because , unless the tape is of very high quality , it will produce poor pictures and damage the machines in which it is used . |
| 26 | In contrast , a few firms do help new recruits with bridging finance and/or pay a disturbance allowance . |
| 27 | Er we just kept them on and there 's I know quite a few schemes have stopped working but we 've still got them written down somewhere |
| 28 | A few Masai look on . |
| 29 | They were probably derived from some sort of segmented worm ( annelid ) — a few scientists adopt the view that different arthropods may have come from different and separate worms , independently , which became ‘ arthropodized ’ by acquiring an external skeleton . |
| 30 | A few writers suggest that the Allies ( that is , the American OSS ) demanded his release so that they could get better reporting on the situation inside Vietnam than the aged Nguyen Hai Thanh , long absent from his own country , was able to provide . |