Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] a few [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Hotel Des Etrangers is centrally located about 250 yards from the Piazzo Colombo and a few minutes walk from the Via Matteotti .
2 Next to the Met Office was the teleprinter room where yards of paper would come spewing out from the machine at regular intervals , bearing coded weather reports from all the other Met Stations in the United Kingdom and a few weather ships in the Atlantic , and these had to be painstakingly plotted on blank charts of the British Isles .
3 The decision to endorse Loblaws ' ‘ green ’ products was made by Isaacs and a few board members .
4 We did our best to keep the men amused with socials and off-the-cuff concerts , but the thing which was most appreciated was the homely atmosphere provided by my wife and three children and by Mrs Weaverhurst and a few Maymyo friends still left .
5 Inexpensive rediffusion sets ( where one central receiver would serve a large number of speakers in different houses ) were introduced in the Dar es Salaam suburb of Ilala and a few community listening posts elsewhere in the capital .
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