Example sentences of "[noun pl] and a few [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were some bruised shins and sprained ankles , black eyes and a few cuts and grazes but nothing you would n't get on a rugby field , although a couple of old ladies were taken off home by ambulance with attacks of the vapours . |
| 2 | In the pastures stood sheep , cattle and a few horses and around the farm buildings were geese , fowl and cats . |
| 3 | Anna Coots and Patricia Hewitt , two of the most creative pamphleteers , ought to be assured peerages and a few quangoes if Mr Smith gets to Downing Street . |
| 4 | Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro |
| 5 | ‘ I remember in the early days there were only green fields and a few cottages and farmhouses . |