Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The England ‘ A ’ sweater of Hugh Morris deceived many entrants , while his Glamorgan and England colleague Steve Watkin also posed a few problems of identification . |
| 2 | Burmester also included a few samples contaminated with polyethylene glycol , a modern preservative . |
| 3 | Again using improvisation as its ethos , the album once more finds Talk Talk sailing blissfully off into the unknown , each musician using their own initiative , steering the music through freeform jazz and contemporary classical music , Hollis occasionally adding a few lines of comfort and despair in his fragile and tender voice . |
| 4 | South of Barrowgate Road there existed a few houses fronting Sutton Court Road ; some Almshouses on the southern side of Sutton Lane , with the fish pond behind them ; Sutton Court itself at the bottom end of Sutton Court Road , where Sutton Lane turned south — that part of Sutton Lane later became Fauconberg Road — with the Lawn Tennis Grounds on the southern side and Chiswick Park Farm occupying the whole area of land to the east of Sutton Court Road , and the continuing Sutton Lane — which later formed the southern part of Sutton Court Road — curving round to meet the bottom end of Burlington Lane , on the southern boundary of Chiswick House Gardens . |
| 5 | After a meal of meat and potato stew of which Willie only managed a few mouthfuls , Mr Fletcher returned accompanied by his two teenage sons . |
| 6 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 7 | There are up to 360 incinerators working abroad and Britain also has a few systems . |
| 8 | McIllvanney also kept a few power-cruisers of his own for charter , and his yard ran an efficient yacht-servicing and marine supplies business , and thus the boundaries between his operations and Cutwater Charters were necessarily blurred and , for all intents and purposes , he could have been said to run Cutwater . |