Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long time later , or perhaps only a few seconds , she thought she saw her father 's face white as paper , floating among the clouds , then it dissolved into the face of an elderly stranger bending over her . |
| 2 | This movement , perhaps only a few metres per hour , continues until the supply dies away at source , and the nose of the flow gradually slows down and stops , still and silent . |
| 3 | Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface . |
| 4 | For the widow of a younger man or of one who has not been paying into a personal pension scheme for very long , this could be a very small amount — perhaps only a few hundred pounds a year . |
| 5 | Perhaps only a few applied for this job . |
| 6 | There is then a pause of perhaps only a few seconds , a semaphore drops , a gleaming red light changes to green , and the long goods train moves out on its journey . |
| 7 | Potentially , RISC programs may have an even larger number of calls since the complex instructions found in CISCs are subroutines in RISC I. Thus the procedure call must be as short as possible , perhaps only a few jumps . |
| 8 | Furthermore only a few days later , 20th July 1757 , a new lease was made out to Thomas Gunson the treasurer , all of the others ( including a new name , that of George Frears ) having sold out to him for , and in consideration of the princely sum of five shillings ! |
| 9 | The details of this analysis of pyroclastic deposits are rather complex , so only a few of the more interesting aspects will be described here . |
| 10 | Generally , women become familiar quickly with the scent of their infants , and can recognise their baby by smell alone only a few days after birth . |
| 11 | Er … yes , perhaps just a few more condom and illicit sex gags turned up in that show than normal . ’ |
| 12 | If you were to examine the work you may not find any faults , or perhaps just a few minor ones which ‘ do n't really matter ’ . |
| 13 | Okay let's see your essays spend er twenty or thirty minutes talking about the essays and the remainder of the tutorial talking about er the exams because this is the last time I see you before your exams in the tutorial anyway erm so just a few hints and tips on exam technique . |
| 14 | So just a few ideas , not let you know exhaustive but a few ideas to be aware of you 've got appropriate . |
| 15 | The structured the structured thought patterns gave me an actual er organisation to my talk be it only just a few words on a piece of paper it was simple yet er gave the organisation to the actual talk while you stood up in front of an audience . |
| 16 | He was only just a few yards up the blacksmith . |
| 17 | And when she was overcome with remorse and apologized so sweetly a few minutes later his admiration for her was boundless . |
| 18 | The consensus has it that economics will be the key stick with which the CEGB 's opponents , and perhaps even a few of its friends , will beat the board . |
| 19 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 20 | There 's a lot of movement of bird species at this time of year , so quite a few species may turn up , some quite unexpectedly . |
| 21 | So maybe a few more turning counts the census |
| 22 | So he writes it down and everybody writes bits about what 's happened , and thus eventually a few questions were asked and reply came from the Super . |
| 23 | He felt like some programmed thing with a piece of its instructions missing , battering itself repeatedly against the same piece of wall while a door stood open only a few feet away . |
| 24 | Dexter knew it was tempting to ask Lancaster whether he was lying and that he really meant that he could n't face the idea of seeing his wife again , a wife he had murdered and left a bloody corpse on the floor downstairs only a few minutes before . |
| 25 | Already the first squadrons of sepoy cavalry were swooping over the abandoned ramparts and racing for the Cutcherry to kick away just a few inches of that thin trickle of grey powder before it burnt its way home . |
| 26 | New York is n't exactly just a few miles down the road . ’ |
| 27 | It was the Collector 's hope that thus even a few men would be able to keep up a heavy fire . |
| 28 | there was already quite a few trees there , it was like a small wood and they 've plan and |
| 29 | On being taken back , he ran away again a few days later and this time was not forced to return , nor permitted to do so . |
| 30 | The interludes at the start of each act determine the character of the music for a time ( except for Interlude V , which is abruptly curtailed by the Barn Dance music of Act Three scene one , lending thereafter only a few sinister flecks of moonlight ) . |