Example sentences of "from a few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Apart from a few critics ' reservations about the strength of the show 's songs , the reviews saluted Crawford as the West End 's newest star .
2 Apart from a few rings like those recovered from the megalithic passage-grave at Mané-er-Hroek in Brittany , the jade artefacts circulating in Neolithic Europe consisted entirely of flat celts with pointed butts .
3 This is because they can include additional short irradiations for elements with isotopes of very short half-lives , from a few minutes to a few hours , although this increases the analyst 's work .
4 The time span of observation in these studies varies from a few minutes to several hours .
5 So apart from a few minutes to snatch a bite to eat , he was seldom off the helm .
6 For stable samples we rarely need to obtain spectra in a hurry , and commercial spectrometers generally operate on timescales ranging from a few minutes to several hours .
7 The results can take from a few hours to over a week , depending on where you go to be tested .
8 It did look terribly empty , such a change from a few hours ago when music had filled the air and swaying bodies had danced and laughed and fooled about .
9 Market loans consist of a variety of different loans from a few hours to a few weeks , mainly to other banks or to financial institutions such as the discount houses which specialize in short-term lending and borrowing .
10 However , Gibson had no experience on the Mossie and would have benefited a great deal from a few hours with the PFF Mossie Unit at Warboys — perhaps a couple of low-level bombing attacks on our bombing range .
11 Thaw says the new Morse series he has just finished filming will be his last apart from a few specials .
12 Nolan , glowering routinely at Sam from a few feet away , switched his ill-humour to me .
13 It is easy to spot from a few feet away .
14 Visually , the body reminds me of a Schecter or Tom Anderson and if it was n't for Aria 's distinctive headstock you 'd be hard pushed to tell this was n't a £1500 guitar from a few feet away .
15 As they move forward , Tepilit , without warning , hurls his spear at the district officer from a few feet away .
16 From a few feet away , I hear a doctor speaking .
17 This morning , most areas had a bright start — apart from a few showers in the east .
18 Apart from a few scabs here and there and other tell-tale marks around my body my exuberance for life , living and loving , had returned .
19 Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon , street crime does not exist .
20 A thing that I 've heard from a few directions recently is erm the thought of work shadowing .
21 The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies .
22 You will then still have enough material with which to create an attractive picture , rather than try to make a suitable design from a few odds and ends .
23 In many cases , as illustrated by examples from a few industries , the issue of the advantages of scale has shifted from the level of the factory to the firm as a whole .
24 It can accommodate simulations of drainage-basins ranging in size from a few hectares to 40 000 square kilometres .
25 The continental shelf and deeper sea-bed beyond , to a distance of 300–600km from the shore , have a covering of fine grey glacial mud , forming a layer that varies in thickness from a few metres over active areas of sea-floor spreading to 200km or more in older , more stable regions .
26 Azerbaijan has about a third of the world population of mud volcanoes , which range in size from a few metres to several kilometres across the base .
27 If the marriage between small businesses and financiers is to have a happy ending , the couple need more than a guiding hand from a few enthusiasts dedicated to their cause .
28 He was in demand as a confessor , from a few parishioners , a few neighbouring clergy , a few old students at Lincoln .
29 There are virtually no deciduous trees , aside from a few beeches seen halfway along the Strait near the modern coaling-station of Punta Arenas .
30 Again , while the emphasis in television has changed slightly from a few decades ago , for instance in the acceptance that women can be sufficiently authoritative to read news broadcasts , nevertheless we still have Westerns full of macho cowboys and soap operas with glamorous full-time housewives .
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