Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] a few [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Abbey Burnfoot fished well over low water on night tides for a few decent codling .
2 None of them ever enlivened maths lessons with a few handy hints about alternative sexuality .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Statistical packages will now perform a battery of sophisticated multivariate analyses that reduce unwieldy correlation matrices to a few succinct dimensions .
7 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 .
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