Example sentences of "[prep] a few [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 2 | Unfortunately I ca n't imagine any chairman introducing measures that would make it harder for him to flog of a few prised assets in order to raise some hard cash . |
| 3 | For example , there has been extensive coverage of the controversial actions of a few local councils in London , and of the campaign for black sections in the Labour party . |
| 4 | They found that the two parents claim and defend a territory of a few square metres in the shallow stream in which they live . |
| 5 | Despite a few institutional innovations in 1961 and a number of others in 1969 , the WTO remains an administrative , training and ( only since 1969 ) a consultative organisation . |
| 6 | It is certainly true that for a few crucial generations in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the influence of Spanish Jesuits on the never-very-alert minds of the Habsburg emperors was decisive . |
| 7 | Vibrational excitation has only been reported for a few simple molecules in the gas phase , as shown in Fig. 5.8 , and vibrational structure may also be seen on some bands arising from electronic transitions . |
| 8 | So now , save for a few interesting mounds in the field , there is no visible evidence of its existence . |
| 9 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 10 | But the usual squashing and stretching still applies to most projection prints , except for a few large cinemas in major cities which are able to afford the expensive 70mm projectors . |
| 11 | So , except during a few warm days in summer , a white coat would seem to put its wearer at a disadvantage . |
| 12 | I managed to get in hundreds of leaflets , through a few loyal workers in the Department , but these were either destroyed or had little effect ; or more likely , were not adequately distributed out of fear . |
| 13 | It does not need a massive administrative apparatus for this , but can work through negotiations between a few key individuals in the state and business sectors . |
| 14 | It was dark and dirty , with a few rough-looking men in the bar . |
| 15 | Instead of the cafe or the restaurant that he 'd expected , he found a narrow shop with a few uncontroversial-looking videos in the window display and a more extensive and X-rated stock of tapes and magazines inside . |
| 16 | In Northern Ireland , a selective system still predominates , though with a few comprehensive schools in certain areas . |
| 17 | It all starts with a few slow miles in the suburbs , then out into the Suffolk countryside , with a long trail of runner snaking their way along narrow country lanes . |
| 18 | It incorporates a short history of the company with a few important milestones in its development and explains the company 's current service to the processing industries . |
| 19 | Frequently , the mistaken belief is that counselling involves telling people what to do in a nice friendly way and involves educating them with a few pertinent facts in a clear , easily memorable , style . |
| 20 | Libraries both public and institutional are disposing of books without any public debate , apart from a few over-heated outbursts in local newspapers and professional journals , forgotten as soon as read and never taken seriously . |
| 21 | Fortunately , the wave of crack that swept American ghettos and the Caribbean has not taken root in this country apart from a few isolated cases in the North of England . |
| 22 | The range of possibilities for the pace and form of change can be seen in a few specific industries in each of the three sectors : national resource processing , manufacturing and services . |
| 23 | The core of this project is a detailed investigation of the processes of social , economic and political change which are taking place in a few selected villages in the area from which the majority of Pakistani settlers in Britain originate . |
| 24 | Physical chemists like Vernon Harcourt in Oxford were just beginning to study reaction-mechanisms in a few simple cases in the 1860s , and at the same period in France P. M. Berthelot was performing total syntheses , and in Norway C. M. Guldberg and P. Waage discovered the Law of Mass Action governing chemical equilibria . |
| 25 | Attractive as they are , specialised feeders such as these will be doomed to starvation and death in a few short weeks in the aquarium . |
| 26 | It has already been used in a few clinical trials in normal volunteers and diabetics . |
| 27 | It was said , in effect , that the extent of , say , carbonate deposits over a few square miles in the Bahamas at the present day is something quite different from the persistence of carbonates in early Carboniferous times over much of the northern hemisphere . |
| 28 | There are dozens of them , some with very good outdoors and walking sections and it 's an unusually restrained visitor who leaves without a few extra pounds in the backpack . |
| 29 | Business as usual The election led to a few significant changes in Northern Ireland , but mostly it 's more of the same , says Robin Wilson |
| 30 | Let us look at a few Elizabethan towns in more detail , starting with York , the secular and ecclesiastical capital of Northern England , a county town and large commercial centre . |