Example sentences of "a few [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Overhanging vines , wisteria , white roses and blue and white clematis , plus a few strawberry plants complete the picture . |
| 32 | Each year there were a few sex crime trials which got particularly extensive publicity . |
| 33 | I gave up at half a dozen , desultorily checked a few share prices and failed to read more than two paragraphs of an article on the gilt-edged market . |
| 34 | ‘ Last year we arranged a few entertainment evenings over at one of our sister Homes . |
| 35 | A very simple and beautiful example of the use of substitution notes may be found at the beginning of Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde : Here the commonplace cadence A minor-F7-E7 is given a subtle mystery through the use of a few substitution notes as follows : in bar 2 , G is a chromatic substitution for A ( on which it resolves ) , while B is a diatonic substitution for A or C , on which it does not resolve ; in bar 3 , A substitutes chromatically for B , on which it resolves . |
| 36 | For some months this Commando , with their small arms , a few petrol bombs , and an old 4.7 inch gun , stood between the Germans and their possible foothold on the Kent coast near New Romney . |
| 37 | Home Office Ministers fiddled while tyres and a few petrol bombs burned . |
| 38 | She and Lee were never close colleagues but as WEA tutor-organiser she continued to play a key role in attracting students to her short courses and from these developed a few Tutorial Classes for which Lee was the tutor . |
| 39 | Among these were PPB , which survived in two departments until the mid 1970s , PAR and MBO , which flourished in a few pilot studies . |
| 40 | T prevented him from playing rugby , but even a few knock-out blows from bowlers like Allan Donald have failed to temper his international cricketing ambitions . |
| 41 | Since the 1978 UN Conference on Health at Alma Ata it has become a universal wisdom that it is much more effective to build a primary health care network than to spend the same money on a few prestige hospitals which could only ever be used by an urban elite . |
| 42 | Hillhead for a few founder by day . |
| 43 | All caution ( H & S ) was thrown to the wind as a few sample experiments will show : how to make coal gas ; a safe gas explosion ; how to make a banger ; how to explode a little picric acid . |
| 44 | Most door-to-door sales people carry a few sample items and an illustrated catalogue showing their complete range of goods . |
| 45 | Well , it does us good to take a break but our experts have plenty to say this month about stitch patterns and how to experiment with them , so when you feel like a little knitting , try a few sample swatches . |
| 46 | Some idea of the strain to which the realm was submitted by these wars will become evident from a few sample years . |
| 47 | Earlier manmetric studies of the UOS in children used perfused sidehole pull through methods with sedation , an approach that only gives a few sample values of UOS pressure and these are influenced by the effects of sedation and stress . |
| 48 | But Derek Law , deputy director of the SSD , said there had only been a few teething problems . |
| 49 | UK , Macclesfield firm , JSB Computer Systems Ltd 's US operation , out in Scotts Valley , California ( UX No 347 ) , has had a few teething troubles — it is some $200,000 short of its initial target and has undergone a few staff changes — however JSB managing director , Steve Jones says the unit turned in $150,000 last month and is now holding its own . |
| 50 | But there are more than a few teething problems . |
| 51 | Recently both monthly and weekly paid staff have switched to Videpay ( the new payroll system ) and like all new systems there have been a few teething problems . |
| 52 | Earlier this afternoon , there were still a few teething problems … like plenty of signs … but no food … and a ticket machine … but no tickets . |
| 53 | The launch day saw a few teething problems . |
| 54 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 55 | The Shamen are a tad pissed off that nobody seems to write about them without dropping in a few drug references . |
| 56 | The Shamen are a tad pissed off that nobody seems to write about them without dropping in a few drug references . |
| 57 | Passers- by might expect a few satin teddies in the window . |
| 58 | Put it in a bowl of water a few bowl of hot water , a few drops , like you do if you got a cold , and just breathe in . |
| 59 | And just sort of write down a few expression and then think ah that 's not right or yes that 's |
| 60 | 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 . |