Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In front of him were squat columns of coins and a few cheques . |
| 2 | Jet beads , bone needles and pins and spoons , bronze horse-trappings and a tile of the IXth Legion lay on a stone table with a collection of coins and a few pieces of gold jewellery . |
| 3 | He said it 's a couple of cocks and a few leeks chucked in . |
| 4 | However , there are more significant problems in that the same kinds of organizations and the same kinds of services are often accounted for differently although they are all adopting budgetary accounting . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't worry — there 's only a cloak , a couple of gowns and a few blouses . |
| 6 | There was only a handful of tourists and a few gardeners in orange overalls and hard yellow hats batting the undergrowth down and checking the stonework . |
| 7 | It 's very much concerned with the training and Ministry of Elders and a few weeks ago a part of our programme we held a very successful and lively meeting on the subject of church membership . |
| 8 | He hands me a brown manila file , and a handwritten invoice which I imagine he is giving to me now while the connection between the reams of faxes and the many noughts , in local shillings , of his invoice is still fresh . |
| 9 | Everyone that would beautifully imitate nature should well consider the diversity of trees , the size and shape of leaves and the many shades of green . |
| 10 | An increasing number of archivists and a few historians are coming to believe that a major change has taken place in the manner in which human society creates the evidence which will be used by the historians who , in the future , come to write about the late twentieth century ( Morris , et. al. 1992 ) . |
| 11 | In clinical infections , this is similar to the situation in cattle and the same lesions are present at necropsy . |
| 12 | She tells him all and , one assumes from hints and a few quotations in her letters , he does the same to her . |
| 13 | The service was conducted throughout in traditional Coptic , a language found only in churches and a few schools , and which very few even of the Copts understood . |
| 14 | Two contentious issues are the cost of training to managers and the same managers ' grasp of systems ( or the lack of it ) . |