Example sentences of "and a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that this is reflected not just in the increased knowledge of the students but also in a change of attitude and a few greater degrees of empathy . ’ |
| 2 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
| 3 | To make these adjustable plant supports , all you need is a piece of semi-rigid green netting and a few canes . |
| 4 | Me and a few short stories . |
| 5 | The moon was a slender crescent , and a few tattered clouds shuffled across the perfect dome of blue-black sky . |
| 6 | While most of the people rested in the river meadow , shivering as the layers of fog brimmed round them , Cameron and a few strong runners made for the Tummel above the confluence , crossed it , and found the people of Atholl and Tulliemet overflowing the howff at Widow Duff 's , supping broth , chewing mutton , throwing ribs to the dogs . |
| 7 | It had a marked effect on those who read his poetry , and a few years later Leonard was to find himself tutored by one of Pound 's most sympathetic admirers and directed to the understanding of the American 's verse , somewhat to Leonard 's concern , as we shall see . |
| 8 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 9 | Social workers in the study had ‘ grave reservations ’ about the fund and a few felt it was quicker and easier to apply to charities for help . |
| 10 | Many routes could not be said to form a coherent network , other than as InterCity connections to whom they did not now belong , and a few ( surprisingly few ) were in the mould of the traditional country branch line . |
| 11 | Ambulance to Raigmore Hospital , Inverness and a few hours later I was talking to the consultant . |
| 12 | We bought one ( a mistake , we should have got two ) to supplement an old ladle-handle type of thing dug out from my past , and a hammer and a few pegs to be on the safe side . |
| 13 | The floor was undulating , covered in grass and a few patches of exposed rock . |
| 14 | At the present time , it has become attenuated but not extinct , and it continues in the long review-articles in the new York Review of Books and London Review of Books , and a few other periodicals . |
| 15 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |
| 16 | The Germans killed six million and a few years later we invited them to be our guests over here ? |
| 17 | But in the potato channel are lumps of earth and a few stones masquerading as vegetable , and in the stone channel a few potatoes pretending to be mineral . |
| 18 | Only 18 months ago , it was little more than a dream , the brainchild of himself and a few radical economists , blending Mr Gorbachev 's plans for economic decentralisation with crystallising Estonian nationalism . |
| 19 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 20 | It can not be very comfortable , for it consists merely of an uneven depression on top of the stone wall , barely softened by dust and a few wisps of hay . |
| 21 | Then , after a couple of minutes , I entered the house in time to see Lovat and a few Commandos dashing upstairs . |
| 22 | ‘ A bad night , Boyo , and a few wounded here and there . ’ |
| 23 | It must have been about fifteen to twenty feet deep and a few feet across . |
| 24 | He doffed his cap as we marched past , and a few paces further on we negotiated the turn and were heading back along the road on the other side of the village green towards the saluting base . |
| 25 | The commission contained Karl Barth , and Florovsky , and the American Protestant Mackay who was a man of polysyllables , and the more profound American Protestant Richard Niebuhr , and Ernst Wolf to represent the German Lutheran tradition , and a few others . |
| 26 | The only difference between Tina Turner today and a few years ago is her material . |
| 27 | They 'd go there after work for a drink and a few rock stars would turn up . |
| 28 | Once the Prime Minister and a few senior ministers had made up their minds , it then achieved what senior civil servants call ‘ momentum ’ . |
| 29 | Moran stood erect and apart on the platform , totally separate as he gazed at the hill across the tracks where the stationmaster 's brown horse and a few cattle and sheep grazed . |
| 30 | The odd plaice show throughout May along with bass and a few early silver eel . |