Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The presence of soils in turn ensures the presence of breeding petrels that burrow in soils , or require the dense vegetation for nesting , and of a few species of birds ( and indeed of introduced mammals ) that live entirely on the resources of the land . |
| 32 | This will probably involve a social worker in an area team putting together a package that might consist of a few hours of home care , a couple of days of day care , and night sitting for one night . |
| 33 | But always , for that one first moment , there was a hope , a promise of a few hours of enchantment . |
| 34 | Despite his wide range of achievements , Dall 's name is little known outside of a few groups of specialists . |
| 35 | The presence of a few colonies of candida does not constitute infection , however , any more than the presence of many other organisms in small numbers in the vagina means that they are there in a pathogenic capacity . |
| 36 | ‘ Cheap , ’ Rose replied , quoting the pusher , ‘ the price of a few gallons of petrol and you 're off to paradise . ’ |
| 37 | After the 1915 offensives , the troops had come to believe that if Pétain called for an attack there must be some point to it , that it would not be a senseless sacrifice of lives in the way of those over-ambitious generals , out to gain recognition from the conquest at any price of a few yards of enemy trench . |
| 38 | Anglo-American sociology of law has been imprinted with the emphasis given to the study of law enforcement and criminal justice systems in handling traditional crime and , despite the interest of a few sociologists of deviance in some marginal forms of deviant conduct , our present conceptions of criminal behaviour are heavily influenced by this emphasis . |
| 39 | Or — like a few men of Sparrow Force whom Corporal Palmer had found near the coast living off the Company 's abandoned-in-transit Christmas parcels — they wandered aimlessly until captured , or killed by native factions . |
| 40 | It became the Chancellor 's habit to interrupt his morning procession to work for a few minutes of Cabinet Room conversation with the Prime Minister . |
| 41 | The boat was blown to glory , nothing was ever found of it except for a few bits of debris , and to all intents and purposes both occupants were blown to glory with it . ’ |
| 42 | Injuries in war and disasters provide numerous anecdotes of the anaesthetic effects of shock ; a doctor in the aftermath of London 's Clapham rail crash of 1988 reported having treated several victims lying or sitting by the track in a state of bewilderment and oblivious of serious wounds ; in one case an ankle was completely severed other than for a few shreds of flesh . |
| 43 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 44 | He was probably always nipping down to Underwoods for a few grams of thallium . |
| 45 | Brought down to prose by Falstaff for a few lines of word-play , Hal leaves him with another line of verse , marking the difference of ethos between them . |
| 46 | Is the price we pay for a few moments of Mills and Boon romance too high , leaving an aftermath of bitterness , boredom and let-down ? |
| 47 | A few farmers even managed to do very well out of the exorbitant prices charged to urban residents for a few mouthfuls of grain . |
| 48 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 49 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | ‘ Well , I did get a bit depressed at times … and I got through a few pairs of shoes . ’ |
| 52 | Many of the upland landscapes today are like patch-work quilts of forest and open moorland , with a few areas of upland bogs preserved for their rare , wild , moorland plants . |
| 53 | ‘ When I have often heard ’ is in the 1692 word-book ; the Plaint is on a single-sheet insert bound into the 1693 word-book , with a few lines of dialogue to cover the joins . |
| 54 | Answer the following questions , each with a few lines of explanation . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | It means you 'll lose a bit of paintwork when you do the job but very u most often you can get it all back together with a few flakes of paint missing . |
| 57 | covered over with sn with a few feet of snow . |
| 58 | You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’ |
| 59 | He was dark-haired with a few strands of hair on his upper lip . |
| 60 | I would get a stocking with a few bits of things in when I was young and Grandma used to make a big cake with white icing , but that would be when Daddy was alive . |