Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a few [noun pl] of " in BNC.

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1 He was dark-haired with a few strands of hair on his upper lip .
2 Answer the following questions , each with a few lines of explanation .
3 Modern brick and concrete duplexes squatted here and there along the road , each with a few rows of vines trained along wires suspended from concrete posts behind them .
4 All for a few inches of bloody zipper !
5 But such generalizations as these , while perhaps being applicable to a few individuals of each country , can reasonably be said to be prejudiced statements based on inadequate sampling .
6 Jacques was also fortunate in that within a few months of taking up his appointment , the government 's public expenditure restrictions imposed in the economic crisis of 1931 were relaxed in 1935- 36 with the restoration of progressive grants and the encouragement of new provision in adult education , outlined in the Board of Education 's Circular 1444 .
7 Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work .
8 Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning .
9 Justification for Scott 's impressive display in the House of Commons became apparent within a few days of his drawings being hung .
10 They insisted that neither loyalists nor republicans would have left 200 lb of explosive within a few feet of men and women working contentedly in the bakery kitchen and suggested that it was more like the work of outside agents , acting under strict and impersonal orders .
11 These results are , however , probably too optimistic as a few cases of reocclusion by hyperplasia through the mesh have been reported with metallic stents placed either percutaneously or endoscopically ( C Liguory , personal communication ) for postsurgical CBD strictures .
12 That is , they fluctuate about a mean with a wavelength small compared with the dimensions of the sample , and the effects of these fluctuations become insignificant within a few wavelengths of the surface .
13 One , significant in a few parts of Europe , was the growth of a genuine popular military tradition and a willingness to regard the army as a respectable , even honourable , occupation .
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