Example sentences of "[prep] a few [adj] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were contract ‘ hits ’ for a few hundred pounds each but others were murdered ‘ just for fun ’ . |
| 2 | Except for a few specialised publications such as The Art Newspaper , only a handful of quality papers regularly deal with issues concerning the art trade : the International Herald Tribune ; the German Handelsblatt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; and in the United States , the New York Times . |
| 3 | For a few silent moments this does n't click into place . |
| 4 | However , Will Purser helped me with a few defensive sentences such as , ‘ Please talk slowly , I have only just begun to learn Burmese . ’ |
| 5 | Income tax in peacetime was not introduced in the UK until the 1840s , and VAT — a general tax on goods and services ( with a few specified exemptions such as good and children 's clothing ) — was not introduced until the 1970s . |
| 6 | We are doing well with dog-fighting in spite of its illegality , and we are making progress with a few speculative lines such as cave diving , simulated extreme skiing and Russian roulette . |
| 7 | The immediate result is that alongside a few major clerics such as Runcie and Jenkins , we find that Stalker , Sampson , Anderton , Alderson , Newman , Imbert , Dear , Oxford , and Hermon are national personalities , while a second division of chief officers regularly proclaim on a range of subjects which at other times would lie outside the province of the police . |
| 8 | In the same year 20 per cent of the population was concentrated in a few metropolitan areas each with a population of over half a million . |
| 9 | In a few more moments this love scene would have reached the point of no return . |
| 10 | After a pause we continued , but in a few more minutes another note came through saying that further resignations were expected . |
| 11 | And due to a few unforseen obstacles some did n't even manage that . |
| 12 | Now we can begin to see the outlines of a theory of human personality and cultural development which is elegant indeed and which reduces to a few general principles many of the random and apparently unsystematic motions of human history and culture . |
| 13 | The SAPC consists largely of representatives from Regional and District Councils , plus a few other organisations such as police , motoring associations etc . |