Example sentences of "[adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former vice-president of Liber and managing director of Almqvist & Wiksell Förlag , Maria Curman , left her posts suddenly a few months ago . |
| 2 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 3 | If the spider is not to be seen , try tapping the web gently a few times . |
| 4 | Igfets have strange characteristics , which mean that they are not much use at frequencies of below a few kilohertz . |
| 5 | The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city . |
| 6 | The excellent road system of the greater Belfast region means that Jordanstown is merely a few minutes ' drive from the capital , allowing students to take advantage of the social life and the living accommodation available in the city . |
| 7 | At present it 's merely a few planks covering a narrow part of a stream further along this track . ’ |
| 8 | I never forgot his face , and sure enough a few nights later his aircraft was one of those that failed to return . |
| 9 | Such obtuseness would have been common enough a few years ago . |
| 10 | This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later . |
| 11 | ‘ … a little cottage , and perhaps a few chickens . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The whole process is slow — perhaps a few months — but can be very quick in real emergencies . |
| 14 | perhaps a few blows to the side of the head with an axe ? |
| 15 | Perhaps a few adverts round the football terraces would spread the net a little wider . |
| 16 | No-one , except perhaps a few scientists , had any idea of the long-term effects the dropping of these two bombs would have on the unfortunate Japanese — and perhaps even the scientists were unsure . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Perhaps a few examples of Smithsonian directors ' thinking in rejecting and accepting material , or even releasing items in the collections , might throw light on the subject . |
| 19 | DURING the furore of the next three weeks of General Election campaigning , for Christians perhaps a few reflections about the institution which is the House of Commons — and especially about the men and women who are sent there — would not come amiss . |
| 20 | This meant that Wilson would have to accept from the re-negotiation the same conditions as Heath had accepted , with perhaps a few minor , cosmetic modifications , or else withdraw the United Kingdom out of the EEC . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps a few ; it will do no harm , ’ she said soothingly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Walworth was hardly the place where families had money lying about , except perhaps a few pennies in a cocoa tin for feeding gas meters . |
| 24 | But animals , to varying degrees , employ all the senses available to human beings , with perhaps a few extra ones , and often with a far greater range of sensitivity . |
| 25 | Well perhaps a few , well-intentioned people like Jesse Helms [ the senator who criticised the NEA vigorously for allocating public funds to pornographic and blasphemous art ] might have said these things are disgusting . |
| 26 | It could cross the open sea , and land on the enemy coast small groups of men who , in raids lasting perhaps a few hours or , at most , a day or two , could do much damage to both enemy property and morale . |
| 27 | We sit there for half an hour perhaps and log one car , a few walkers , several cows , perhaps a few ghosts . |
| 28 | The age that Flavia gave her was Constanza 's , perhaps a few years more . |
| 29 | I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement . |
| 30 | How big is the search space ? perhaps a few hundred states |