Example sentences of "few [noun pl] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the few authorities where waste goes to modern landfills and methane is piped off for positive use , there is some energy payback , but there must be more incentive to separate the 40 per cent of the domestic waste that is vegetable-derived , and recycle it as compost . |
| 2 | We still get an , er quite a few calls where fireworks have been pushed through letter boxes , in including pillar boxes , and they can cause all sorts of havoc although they 'll not do an awful lot of damage to individuals . |
| 3 | There was a game they 'd played a few times when Edith was out of the house , a rough-and-tumble sort of thing , perfectly harmless . |
| 4 | There have been very few cases where microorganisms have been used for in situ removal of chlorinated , or even petroleum compounds , and conventional biological processes are more commonly used . |
| 5 | There will be definitional and ultimately theoretical problems in a few cases where land-use decisions are shared in a complex manner between a small group like a household , and a larger community . |
| 6 | It is worth noting that there are not a few cases where constructions containing postverbal adjectives are equivalent to different structures having the same subject and the same adjectival and verbal properties , but with the former now in ordinary predicative position and the latter replaced by an adverb : ( 61 ) Mario seemed regretful Mario was apparently regretful ( 62 ) the sharks remain dangerous the sharks are still dangerous This is exactly what could have been expected , given structure ( 47 ) . |
| 7 | A burst of frequency between 10 and 10 4 Hz is expected with a duration of several cycles and an energy release of between and in gravitational waves from a star core of mass M. The mass M is expected to be similar to that of the pulsars , which average around for the few cases where measurements have been made . |
| 8 | There are of course a few cases where wives earn more than their husbands . |
| 9 | Just a few minutes ago Lou Macari left the court buildings with his wife Dale , and his solicitor Stephen Pollard , who made this statement . |
| 10 | A few minutes later Romany pulled off the tarpaulin . |
| 11 | When the temperature cooled down a few minutes later Gallacher headed to the referee 's dressing room to apologise . |
| 12 | A few minutes later Luch drifted in from the castle . |
| 13 | A few minutes later Agnes was hurrying across the yard with the fresh linen in her arms , making for the house at the end of the square , when a man passing along the pavement glanced at her , then stopped and , raising his hat , said , ‘ Good afternoon , ’ and stepped towards her . |
| 14 | A few minutes later Marcus was sitting in the bathroom before a washbasin ( the water was hot ) with a towel over his chest and his face covered with shaving cream . |
| 15 | A few minutes later Chantal gunned the monstrous Harley Davidson out of the apartment block courtyard , with D'Arcy astride the pillion . |
| 16 | A few minutes later Murray turned into the Sports Centre and Richard continued towards the House in merciful solitude . |
| 17 | A few minutes later Sophie placed the tray on the low table beside Joanna and began to discuss the news of Helen 's engagement , but Joanna showed very little interest . |
| 18 | A few minutes later Ben won his , assisted by a 3.11 m.p.s. wind . |
| 19 | He turned to talk to me , but a few minutes later Ben was arguing about another of Will 's plays . |
| 20 | A few minutes later Nathan jumped down into the cockpit once more and hauled out the roller-reefed headsail . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's what we planned , ’ she agreed , and a few minutes later Cicely was talking of leaving for the hospital in half an hour . |
| 22 | A few minutes later Branco sent a typically fiendish Brazilian free-kick dipping and swerving past the wall and Van Breukelen , who rarely encountered anything like this in his Nottingham Forest days , punched the ball clear without knowing much about it . |
| 23 | A few minutes later music drones from his room . |
| 24 | A few minutes later Benjamin joined me . |
| 25 | A few minutes later Sandy opened her eyes and turned her head slowly towards them . |
| 26 | Rachel walked out on to the main road a few minutes later feeling overwhelmed with guilt . |
| 27 | Just a few minutes later French was released on bail pending an appeal . |
| 28 | A few minutes later Wayne McDowell , he played the ball out to brother Gary again , whose hard low cross was scrambled clear by the Almondsbury defence to back to Wayne McDowell whose lob shot ended up resting in the top of the netting . |
| 29 | USA hooker Tony Flay had to be replaced following an ugly facial cut and a few minutes later replacement hooker Pat Johnson had his nose broken by a punch . |
| 30 | A few minutes later Mr Saleb emerged . |