Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adv] a [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rub the meat with salt ( about a couple of tablespoonsful ) and let it stand overnight or at least a few hours before cutting it into 1 ½-inch thick strips along the grooves left by the bones . |
| 2 | As he 'd hobbled back through the sleet a tiny part of him had hoped her gratitude would include an embrace , or at least a few words that would let him know she felt something for him . |
| 3 | Samantha Ward Tadman , 10 , of Rhyl , has just taken up the cello , and after only a few months , the prize-winning pianist has passed her first cello exam Picture : PHIL MICHEU |
| 4 | And with only a few places available each year , it 's like a bottleneck near the top , and the harder it becomes . |
| 5 | The majority of the incomers who settled in these localities were young couples who were still committed to a strategy of occupational and residential mobility in order to further their career interests ; they were ‘ spiralists ’ , and with only a few exceptions , their residence does not seem to be permanent . |
| 6 | I took Oliver 's flowers , and fed them petal-first into the grinder , and in just a few minutes I had reduced his gift to a sludge which the cold water was washing away down the waste-pipe . |
| 7 | Sit down at your machine with a cassette player and knit , following Diane 's clear and helpful explanations and in just a few hours YOU will be the master of your machine ! |
| 8 | Yes , the answers and comments of the students and your fellow-teachers will certainly be valuable to the project — they were helpful , interesting , and in quite a few cases enlightening in bringing up incidental considerations I had n't previously given enough thought to . |
| 9 | Many Americans , for example , have individual septic tanks , and in only a few countries , such as England and West Germany , does sewerage dominate sanitation systems . |
| 10 | In a three way contest almost as many people had voted against Reagan as for him and in only a few states , mainly in the South , had he performed significantly better than Gerald Ford in 1976 . |
| 11 | The ground was soft and spongy and in only a few paces her canvas shoes were soaked . |
| 12 | But in just a few years computers have made many specialised tasks obsolete , enabling one person not only to do the work of many , but to do many different jobs at once . |
| 13 | Naturally , if tinnitus is troublesome , you will seek medical advice , but in only a few cases ( it is suggested less than five per cent ) is there a simple remedy where the cause of tinnitus is in the outer or middle ear . |
| 14 | The employees interviewed in the 30 banks all have the responsibility for making lending decisions to small business customers , but in only a few cases were those branch managers as such , because generally the role of dealing with the small business customer is delegated to executives such as the specialised Enterprise Manager , or the Small Business Manager , all of whom had several years ' experience . |
| 15 | Their babble of French and Arabic made an awful din , but within just a few feet of us they quietened . |