Example sentences of "[adv] a few [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In one south German fish farm , only a few of 300 000 young carp survived an outbreak of the ringworm Bothriocephalus acheilognathi , which spread from the Far East . |
| 32 | Previous expeditions had often collected from disease-free trees in the forest , but only a few of these trees had shown useful resistance in later trials . |
| 33 | Only a few of these had pods , but here and elsewhere we found enough pods to make an important observation : all the wild cocoa throughout the Amazon region of Ecuador shares a common set of genetically determined characteristics including white seeds , very rough-surfaced yellow pods , and the absence of red pigmentation in the leaves . |
| 34 | These are only a few of the more common applications of the Technique . |
| 35 | Job costing , fee assessment , cash-flow forecasting and staff motivation are only a few of the requirements of a successful practice manager . |
| 36 | This section covers only a few of the documents published over the past hundred years on the geology of the Channel bed , including a few relating to the 1970s project which seems particularly relevant today . |
| 37 | Only a few of us knew about the cave . |
| 38 | And that 's only a few of the things that 'll be making their Megatape debuts on the front cover of COMMODORE FORCE ! |
| 39 | Through him the notion of the responsible use of power by a divinely ordained ruling class was introduced directly into the educational system , and boys were exposed systematically and en masse to an idea which only a few of them could have been counted on to pick up informally at home . |
| 40 | Only a few of the diplodocuses survived . |
| 41 | Over the years ‘ Mods and Rockers ’ , ‘ Hell 's Angels ’ , ‘ Skinheads ’ , ‘ Rude Boys ’ , ‘ Romantics ’ , ‘ Neo-Romantics ’ and ‘ Punks ’ were only a few of the pieces in an ever-changing cultural jig-saw . |
| 42 | In the case of credit , it has been suggested that even if barely one in three consumers is aware of credit costs , and even if only a few of them use the information to shop around actively , lenders might compete with lower rates as a result . |
| 43 | Growth in the take-home trade — some 15 per cent of all beer sales — in which only a few of the larger independent brewers have national distribution . |
| 44 | This is only a few of the Swan Yachts that we have available in Germany . |
| 45 | Many of the ideas included in the series , only a few of which have been mentioned above , were not original . |
| 46 | The cars will be built by a team of 40 , only a few of them Italian , and they could be joined by British engine designer Brian Hart for the Italian job to be done in Surrey . |
| 47 | Only a few of the errors are of the same kind as spelling or typing errors . |
| 48 | Only a few of them have any idea what it is like for school to be a persistent diet of boredom , incomprehension and failure . |
| 49 | ( In Britain , for example , only a few of the larger slaughterhouses , mainly in urban areas like Birmingham , have a permanent staff of qualified veterinarians to check procedures . ) |
| 50 | If this is the case , we would expect to find only a few of the many polymorphisms readily interpretable as responsive to present proximal selective forces . |
| 51 | In the mid-1950s only a few of the simpler , standard power stations were beginning commissioning three to three-and-a-half years after the start of work on site , but the BEA failed to get their average performance near to that of their best or up to the similar three-year timings achieved by the Atomic Energy Authority in developing their smaller ( but more challenging ) demonstration nuclear power plants . |
| 52 | Only a few of you — just as I suspected ! |
| 53 | The Office for Fine Arts intends to keep only a few of the better works for itself . |
| 54 | These were only a few of the paradoxes of Baldwin 's life and character . |
| 55 | This morphology does not lend itself to analysis after conventional staining since only a few of the autosomes show distinguishing features in the form of secondary constrictions ( Figure 3a ) and , of the sex chromosomes , only the Y of some strains can be recognized by virtue of occasionally visible unique features ( Figure 3a ) . |
| 56 | Only a few of the rabbits remained above ground . |
| 57 | Only a few of us remain , for though we do not age as mortals do , we can be killed , or in great unhappiness can choose to die . ’ |
| 58 | Finally , there was the decision of the Court of Appeal in the present case , where the point was considered in great detail in the judgment of Silke V.-P. , by reference to a full range of reported cases ( only a few of which have been cited herein ) , and also to the details of the procedures for judicial review in Hong Kong . |
| 59 | He is talking this time of the short stories of Guy de Maupassant , only a few of which can perhaps be seized on as crime short stories before their time . |
| 60 | By now there were only a few of them left , grouped like maintenance vehicles around The Fat Controller 's wide-bodied jet of a home . |