Example sentences of "[adv] a [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of you will remember Her Majesty the Queen 's visit in 1984 when she opened the Queen 's Library at Sighthill , and perhaps a few of you will recall the Duke of Edinburgh 's visit in 1965 . |
| 2 | He still brings in a few of the old fans . |
| 3 | When they got to St-Jean it was only a little past midnight and the cafes were still open . |
| 4 | Only a little of it , mind . ’ |
| 5 | You need only a little of your anti cellulite massage oil — about a teaspoonful for each leg . |
| 6 | I saw only a little of the country areas outside WA — I hope this might be rectified in the future . |
| 7 | ‘ I understand only a little of what you say . |
| 8 | But that was not all : Mr Browning said Mr Landor 's rooms were all to be painted , carpeted and furnished and that he thought her own quarters might at least be painted if she contributed only a little to the cost . |
| 9 | It had been built earlier in the century , and by 1794 was the home of Henry Poole 's uncle , Thomas Poole the elder , an ‘ irritable , arbitrary old man ’ whose bad temper owed only a little to his sufferings from the gout . |
| 10 | One , found almost exclusively in Bangkok and its suburbs , is the product of rapid industrialisation ; its inhabitants enjoy incomes only a little below those of the Portuguese . |
| 11 | Only a little over one third of the area farmed was owned by the farmers . |
| 12 | All these stars are concentrated in a field only a little over a degree in diameter . |
| 13 | In the mid-1920s only a little over 1 per cent were receiving a formal education . |
| 14 | Perhaps God in his wisdom has told us only a little about the nature and personhood of Satan so that we are not tempted to dwell on him with morbid fascination . |
| 15 | We know only a little about how , in this more secular society , we should try to minimize the damage for people going through the grieving process . |
| 16 | Yet language is too important to be left either to amateurs who know British education but know only a little about language , or to professionals who know much about language but have little close contact with British education . |
| 17 | She could give him a room with a bed , and her asking price for it was only a little above that of Mrs McIntosh , and much less than the inn . |
| 18 | Thus the fact that , for Rayleigh numbers only a little above critical , there is only a limited range of unstable wavenumber κ might be thought adequate information for a knowledge of the flow . |
| 19 | That in turn is important in understanding why motion occurs at all , but , as noted earlier , relates directly to observations only when the Rayleigh number is only a little above its critical value . |
| 20 | The same chapter in Chronic Diseases highlights this thus ‘ In taking one and the same medicine repeatedly ( which is indispensable to secure the cure of a serious chronic disease ) , if the dose is in every case varied and modified only a little in its degree of dynamization , then the vital force of the patient will calmly , and as it were willingly receive the same medicine even at brief intervals very many times in succession with the best results , every time increasing the well-being of the patient . ’ |
| 21 | In any case , it was only a little after twelve . |
| 22 | It was only a little after that , and before the damming had got very much further , that Ligulf said , ‘ Siward ? ’ |
| 23 | She looked at the clock , frustrated to find it was only a little after eleven . |
| 24 | ‘ Only a little after eight . ’ |
| 25 | The sauropods instead had teeth in the front with only a few at the sides . |
| 26 | Next , if you are using lots of fonts — but only a few at a time — you should combine blocks of fonts into Suitcases and then use one or other of the utilities such as Suitcase to manage them for you . |
| 27 | Interpretation of iconography , the historical context of works , or personal information about sitters for portraits are only a few of the varied topics which can be spelt out in catalogues . |
| 28 | The above examples are only a few of those showing how conventional ports de bras can be changed . |
| 29 | In fact only a few of Scotland 's great views are included but many well known ones elsewhere are covered such as Cat Bells and Snowdon , plus a few less familiar ones such as Mow Cop on the edge of the Cheshire Hills and Bennachie in Aberdeenshire . |
| 30 | ‘ Ah , ’ said Joe Connors , a dark little man who reached forward with spatulate fingers for the corkscrew , ‘ There 's only a few of us left . ’ |