Example sentences of "[noun sg] with [art] few [noun pl] in " in BNC.

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1 Julia set off towards the Dorsoduro , beginning to feel really ill with a headache pounding behind her left eyebrow , smarting eyes , a rasped throat and a nose that felt as though it were stuffed with hot , wet flannel with a few pins in it , but even so she decided to give her lesson .
2 ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway .
3 Miller only credited Bartram with a few plants in the Dictionary : Lilium philadelphum , ‘ at present very rare in English gardens ’ , Toxicodendron serratum , ‘ not yet flowered ’ and Veratrum americanum , another rarity which had in a good season both flowered and seeded in this country .
4 Then she said I could look and she gave me a piece of cloth with a few coins in it which my mother had saved for me — and the ring .
5 I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag .
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