Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately I ca n't imagine any chairman introducing measures that would make it harder for him to flog of a few prised assets in order to raise some hard cash . |
| 2 | He had turned her body to fire with a few practised touches out there and now he expected her to forget all that had happened , stand beside him and discuss the garden as if nothing in the world had just occurred . |
| 3 | The kingdom of Italy , the second big new state to emerge from the wars of the mid-century , had only to deal with a few French-speaking communities and some Germans in Venetia ; it did not yet have to face a minorities problem . |
| 4 | The best way is to start with a few vegetarian meals a week and gradually increase the number . |
| 5 | If we wanted an internal report er to go to a few selected clients that report would mainly be text . |
| 6 | All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century , shortly before Richard 's birth . |
| 7 | It 's also somewhat perverse to complain about a few innocent posts when the top of Ben Nevis is a lofty scrapyard . |
| 8 | Moreover , expeditions tend to congregate in a few favoured areas which provide rapid access to peaks as well as adequate water supplies and shelter from natural hazards like avalanches . |
| 9 | You should n't have to remove the power supply unit or unplug any cables to slot in a few extra megabytes of RAM . |