Example sentences of "[conj] a few [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 2 | The archaeological evidence for this hunting activity over very long periods , from 12,000 to 4000 BC , consists of flint implements and a few bone objects from both open settlement sites and caves . |
| 3 | They integrated with the Picts , the ‘ painted men ’ , finally absorbing them and their culture completely , leaving behind only robbed brochs , broken hill-forts and a few stone carvings as evidence of the Picts ' passing . |
| 4 | The Hotel Des Etrangers is centrally located about 250 yards from the Piazzo Colombo and a few minutes walk from the Via Matteotti . |
| 5 | Some cattle are reared on permanent pasture on the lower slopes and a few fodder crops of grass , oats and potatoes are grown in the lower valleys . |
| 6 | Back to that poky little shop , livin' off the takin 's of penny bags of bullseyes and a few pence worth of paraffin oil ! ’ |
| 7 | Further north , and a few miles west of Fréteval , which Philip had held since last June , the lord of Vendôme switched his allegiance to France . |
| 8 | Where is Q P9 ? papers rustling This one I think we should give a little thought , because this is the one I think where oh yes this is going to get complicated because I have now been given a quiff and a few suggestion forms about it |
| 9 | So they 're probably just gon na have their you know merchandise and a few people sort of |
| 10 | Next to the Met Office was the teleprinter room where yards of paper would come spewing out from the machine at regular intervals , bearing coded weather reports from all the other Met Stations in the United Kingdom and a few weather ships in the Atlantic , and these had to be painstakingly plotted on blank charts of the British Isles . |
| 11 | Now it merits but a few column inches in a few papers . |
| 12 | Moreover , it was but a few minutes walk from the Junior School ( Roslyn ) , and only a little further from the senior school ( Westmount High ) to which Esther and Leonard were duly sent . |
| 13 | But a few miles south-west of these peaks are the Low Tatras . |