Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It consists mostly of plain four-storey brick warehouses with a few more ornate buildings among them . |
| 2 | In late spring , snow surfaces within a few hundred metres of the coast often show a flush of colour , usually pink , green or brownish-yellow , caused by patches of unicellular or colonial algae . |
| 3 | Here the engineers have to carry out most of their work on Sundays when traffic is light , but this often entails diversions and extended journey times followed by temporary speed restrictions for a few further days at the beginning of each week . |
| 4 | Abbey Burnfoot fished well over low water on night tides for a few decent codling . |
| 5 | None of them ever enlivened maths lessons with a few handy hints about alternative sexuality . |
| 6 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
| 7 | When the loads are comparatively small in relation to the size it is generally best to concentrate the compression loads into a few compact , rod-like members and to diffuse the tensions into fabric and cords . |
| 8 | Microworm are best cultured in small plastic containers such as well washed half pound margarine tubs with a few small holes pierced into the lid . |
| 9 | Statistical packages will now perform a battery of sophisticated multivariate analyses that reduce unwieldy correlation matrices to a few succinct dimensions . |
| 10 | It was said , in effect , that the extent of , say , carbonate deposits over a few square miles in the Bahamas at the present day is something quite different from the persistence of carbonates in early Carboniferous times over much of the northern hemisphere . |