Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The trip was a total success , and despite a few hiccups in transit we were able to transport some 5O , OOO items to the main hospital in addition to taking supplies to the towns at Clut-Napoca and Milas . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
| 34 | I started to fix the tongue and groove boarding , and with a few boards in place , felt confident enough to work on the roof . |
| 35 | In 891/1486 , when Bayezid II built his medrese in Amasya , he stipulated that the muftis of Amasya should act as muderris , a condition which is reported to have been observed without exception until 1033/1623–4 , and with a few exceptions until 1084/1673–4 when the two offices were finally separated . |
| 36 | By definition , the altruistic majority must promote the reproductive success of the selfish the reproductive success of the selfish organism , the mutant , will be far greater than the altruist , and within a few generations of selfish individuals . |
| 37 | And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me . |
| 38 | And within a few hours of meeting 25-year-old Chris , Heather agreed to spend the rest of her life with him . |
| 39 | Beyond the apple trees and within a few feet of the river is a large raised platform , visible in winter before its annual submergence in weeds , part of a vanished building , and there are clear lines of stone walls adjoining it . |
| 40 | Under the legislation this was not in fact required ( only the Boards as a whole were required to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ ) , but Citrine and his senior colleagues believed that it was a desirable principle that each Board should break even , and within a few years of nationalisation this was also tacitly accepted by the Boards . |
| 41 | Cocks married in 1688 Frances , daughter of Richard Neville of Billingbear , Berkshire , and within a few months of being widowed , in 1724 , took as his second wife Mary , daughter of William Bethell of Swindon . |
| 42 | He repudiated the oath by which he had restored to the Holy See the ecclesiastical rights and privileges enjoyed by the emperors and the kings of Sicily and within a few months of his coronation he began to progress down into Italy . |
| 43 | These two mills were also on the direct route to Bristol and within a few miles of Fromebridge . |
| 44 | The fact that it was larger than most local mills and within a few miles of Cirencester probably saved it . |
| 45 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 46 | In short the pictures in an art museum have been closely monitored , often through decades and in a few cases for centuries , so full descriptions that appear in the catalogues have a thorough-paced authority . |
| 47 | Myenteric plexuses often participate in familial amyloid polyneuropathy and in a few cases with AL and AA . |
| 48 | In the villages without supplies water for all domestic purposes is fetched from springs , from wells and in a few cases from streams . |
| 49 | Sussex heathlands occur on the Lower Greensand in the west and north-west of the county , in the central area of the High Weald on the Hastings Beds , and in a few places on the Downs where there are superficial deposits of acidic soils . |
| 50 | In some regions , the cable is split into several parallel strands , and at a few points around the margin ( typically two or three ) the continuity of the cable is broken , the actin distribution appears disorderly , and the wound front is irregular rather than smoothly curved ; some of these discontinuities may represent sites of stronger attachment to the substratum . |
| 51 | The list of honorary and corresponding members included gentlemen living in 30 English counties , and at a few places in Scotland and Wales . |
| 52 | Only five or six farms were involved in this tragedy ; but for a few minutes at least we traverse fields brought into being by the high-handed action of a fifteenth-century squire , and pass by the mounds where the hamlet of Holyoak once stood . |
| 53 | The LP is produced by Jessica Corcoran in tandem with the band and coincides with the tail end of their current tour , a sell-out but for a few tickets for their London show at The Kilburn National on April 4 . |
| 54 | She had heard dark mutterings about him but after a few minutes of talking with him she was ready to put it down to common envy . |
| 55 | Nicky Ryan can be a defensive man in the wrong company , but after a few minutes in my presence he seems to know I have ‘ felt ’ Enya 's music , and he relaxes considerably . |
| 56 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 57 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |
| 58 | But after a few days of Margery 's company ‘ the worshipful woman sped herself fast out of Akun with all her retinue ’ . |
| 59 | Nigel Birch , from Hereford Rowing Club , new to the game , but with a few tricks up his sleeve . |
| 60 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |