Example sentences of "perhaps a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is due to start with bonds by mid-1992 and with the most widely traded equities perhaps a few months later . |
| 2 | ‘ … a little cottage , and perhaps a few chickens . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The whole process is slow — perhaps a few months — but can be very quick in real emergencies . |
| 5 | perhaps a few blows to the side of the head with an axe ? |
| 6 | Perhaps a few adverts round the football terraces would spread the net a little wider . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps a few ; it will do no harm , ’ she said soothingly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Walworth was hardly the place where families had money lying about , except perhaps a few pennies in a cocoa tin for feeding gas meters . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We sit there for half an hour perhaps and log one car , a few walkers , several cows , perhaps a few ghosts . |
| 19 | The age that Flavia gave her was Constanza 's , perhaps a few years more . |
| 20 | I should have said that these houses are all close to the road , perhaps a few paces from the pavement . |
| 21 | How big is the search space ? perhaps a few hundred states |
| 22 | ‘ It is thirty years now , perhaps a few more . |
| 23 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 24 | The statue can not have stood long in the weather , and one would guess it one of the last set up before the Persians came , the girl perhaps a few years earlier . |
| 25 | Perhaps a few bullets ? |
| 26 | I decided to focus on the Matter again ; the cooking facilities ; it looked like it would have to be a barby of some sort , with paper logs made out of Bible pages twisted up and tied into knots — not the lovely picture pages , they remind me too much of Ma and Pa 's bedroom — perhaps a few letters to the Corinthians ; nice and dry . |
| 27 | Ancient marble columns and building blocks are scattered throughout the village , providing a doorstep here , a lintel there , or perhaps a few mooring posts . |
| 28 | The accompaniment sounds very well when it is hummed , with perhaps a few words here and there while the solo part rests , or to join with it at a point of culmination . |
| 29 | She had perhaps a few spoonfuls of oil ; she was told to pour those minute contents of her jar into jars that might have held a hundred times as much as she had . |
| 30 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |