Example sentences of "a [adj] young [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually a frail young women appeared , shaking with fear , and was taken into a nearby house . |
| 2 | You can pick off a few young leaves for salads or cooking . |
| 3 | There were a few young men who developed female characteristics , unconsciously perhaps at first but certainly consciously when they became aware of the power that these gave them . |
| 4 | Quite a few young men paid her attention and wanted to court her , but rather than be out ‘ winching ’ ( courting ) she preferred the company of mother and the family . |
| 5 | They helped dig the badgers ' new home … there were also a few young recruits on hand to help with the spadework . |
| 6 | There were a few obvious English tourists , but even more elderly Italians , and even a few young couples , as if it were the fashionable thing to do . |
| 7 | In fact , as they are very difficult to sex — males have slightly longer finnage and slightly larger humping of the forehead — it is best to buy half a dozen young ones and let them pair naturally , usually when they get to 5–6″ , but sometimes as early as 4″ . |
| 8 | At one place there were about a dozen young women having a lunch together . |
| 9 | Within the last fortnight , we have seen the release on parole of one offender after serving just 22 months of a five year sentence for sexual offences against at least a dozen young boys , and the sentencing of another man to life imprisonment after a sexual orgy resulting in the death of a nine year old . |
| 10 | On one occasion a dozen young myrtles had been dispatched , at a shilling apiece , although Miller much regretted he was unable to pack them himself on account of injuring his leg while ‘ a-herborising by water ’ . |
| 11 | They were a motley crew half a dozen young men in shabby clothes , some still wearing khaki tunics and caps and one of them with a placard across his chest saying : Ex-Service — please help . |
| 12 | He murdered at least a dozen young men before burying their bodies in and around his home . |
| 13 | Charlie went straight up to the room that he shared with Terry and put on a Fine Young Cannibals tape . |
| 14 | Jim Baxter , Denis Law , Willie Henderson , Charlie Cooke and a thousand young pretenders , some special , some sad and some whose names would appear on team-sheets when the '60s were long gone . |
| 15 | Floored Masterpieces made Boyd 's reputation as a gifted young children 's book illustrator . |
| 16 | Floored Masterpieces made Boyd 's reputation as a gifted young children 's book illustrator . |
| 17 | People living near a former young offenders institution are fighting plans to turn it into a detention centre for the immigration service . |
| 18 | They say the centre , to be based at a former young offenders institution , will treat refugees as criminals . |
| 19 | Campsfield House , a former young offenders ' institution has been refurbished for the Immigration Service . |
| 20 | A new young persons clinic is open every Friday at Park Place Health Centre , Darlington . |
| 21 | At a casual glance , Connections appears to possess all the erotic aesthetics of the Adam and Eve , and , therefore , all the erotic aesthetics of a mid-Seventies young offenders ' institute situated on the outskirts of Cardiff . |
| 22 | A smart young police officer pushed his way through the crowd . |