Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [coord] [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before dawn , I was propped on an elbow , with a warming mug of tea and a few verses of Romans . |
| 2 | The best decor for this type of tank consists of wood and a few rocks . |
| 3 | The aeroelastic engineer will usually be interested only in the fundamental mode of vibration and a few overtones , say 10 in all ; in the usual model this implies the dominant and the 9 immediately subdominant eigenvalues and vectors . |
| 4 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |
| 5 | Two basins were provided , with jugs of water and a few towels . |
| 6 | Turning to give his wife a look of gentleness and a few words of encouragement , he opened the door , his men fell in behind him and they left . |
| 7 | ‘ A little spartan , ’ he ran his finger along the nearest buttress and examined the dust it collected , ‘ probably seen better days , but nothing a good lick of paint and a few ornaments would n't help to brighten up . |
| 8 | He could see a tiny backyard with a scrap of lawn and a few flowers . |
| 9 | But in the potato channel are lumps of earth and a few stones masquerading as vegetable , and in the stone channel a few potatoes pretending to be mineral . |
| 10 | If you do not like a coffee house you have lost only the price of a cup of coffee and a few minutes of your time . |
| 11 | We still use the old byre for milking and the few cows I keep do n't call for a new mechanical milker . |
| 12 | He hands me a billy and suggests I get some snow for water and a few twigs to start the fire . |
| 13 | A bemused Southall found himself cautioned for time-wasting and a few seconds later had to pick the ball out of the net . |
| 14 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 15 | The floor was undulating , covered in grass and a few patches of exposed rock . |
| 16 | Sadly , as television interviews all too clearly show , most footballers from other teams are monosyllabic in speech and a few yards short of a goal in the brain department . |
| 17 | but if you can think of some way to say that and put it down so that we put down something like four sentences on paper and a few examples . |
| 18 | I predict a defeat for the scum at Man city this saturday , a win for Leeds against chelsea , a win for New Earswick ( my team ) on saturday and on sunday and a few jars and a curry on saturday night to make this week a truly memorable one . |
| 19 | Still , after all the outdoor activity in the fresh air , many people do n't last much beyond dinner and a few drinks ! |
| 20 | Packs roam everywhere at will and the few towns have not ‘ Wares to police the whole countryside , so the farmers and herders are mostly left to fend for themselves and , as I said , the hunters are all but ruined . |
| 21 | All went well until she tried to climb into a taxi after the reception at the exclusive Dorchester Club following a quiet ceremony for family and a few friends at Chelsea Register Office . |
| 22 | It can not be very comfortable , for it consists merely of an uneven depression on top of the stone wall , barely softened by dust and a few wisps of hay . |