Sentence examples for a few branch from inspiring English sources

The following year saw mixed gauge laid through the Box Tunnel, with the broad gauge now retained only for through services beyond Bristol and on a few branch lines.

Likelihood ratio tests showed that all but a few branch lengths were significantly greater than zero, and an additional likelihood ratio test rejected the molecular clock hypothesis.

The majority of sub-graphs have just a few branching vertices though there are a few very heavily branched sub-graphs with more than 20 out of 100 vertices with branches (Fig. 4A).

Mr. Rushing whipped out his Felco pruners and snipped off a few branches.

In 1837, Charles Darwin opened a notebook and drew a simple tree with a few branches.

When he got a few branches up, a police spokeswoman said, the branch he was on gave way.

There is no fence beside the path, only a foot-high barrier of scattered stones and a few branches.

But this is like treating a sick plant by cutting off a few branches – it just grows new ones.

A plant can stand losing its leaves and a few branches as long as its roots survive.

A Schwab spokesman said the firm frequently tested new offerings in a few branches and had not decided whether to offer the baskets to all of its customers.

From there, with the ball resting on a few branches, Woods did well to putt the ball on the green 40 feet from the hole.