Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor was it powerful enough , outside of a few streets with Prussian generals ' names , to force through a genuinely modern network of boulevards . |
| 2 | Making out it was all so serious , instead of a few smokes with other kids and a little shop-lifting to pay for it . |
| 3 | The field was empty except for a few ewes with young lambs . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd settle for a few years with four legs like a cheetah and be able to go at forty miles an hour , ’ Otley declared . |
| 5 | Urquhart opened the exercise book and skimmed through a few pages with furious concentration before stuffing it in his coat pocket with a grunt of satisfaction . |
| 6 | Comparison of data adjusted by the prescribing unit and the new index with authority averages produced no significant differences except for in a few practices with skewed age-sex demography . |
| 7 | Come back to me in a few weeks with another research proposal . |