Example sentences of "[coord] a few [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Country Living : A few hours or a few weeks before the mast With air like this , it 's a sin not to get out into it . |
| 2 | As it must be swallowed , the layer is not too thick , which may account for the common occurrence of relatively thin layers of nutritious material over a single seed or a few seeds in a fruit . |
| 3 | In his famous concluding paragraph of The Origin of Species Darwin expressed wonder that the diversity of the organic world can have been produced from one or a few ancestors by the operation of several natural laws — ‘ there is grandeur in this view of life … ’ . |
| 4 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 5 | For those with bags of energy left after exploring the valley , try the local night club , or a few beers in the local pub — The Londoner ! |
| 6 | They saw a warm , comfortable room with a good fire burning in the fireplace and a few papers on the big table . |
| 7 | Shortly before the threshold and a few feet above the ground he heard a loud bang accompanied by a violent nose-up motion . |
| 8 | The Jimmy Young Show 's formula of tea and chat and a few questions on a postcard from Radio 2 listeners was her favourite method of reaching the general public . |
| 9 | ‘ We 're in a bizarre situation , are n't we , with me having access to some of the files and a few contacts in the Service and you doing the interrogations ? ’ |
| 10 | It is a common fault , particularly in criminal law , to give the impression that the answer is based wholly upon common sense and a few gleanings from the Sunday newspapers . |
| 11 | Except for a few stereotyped responses from the wilder churches — Pastor David Powell of the Rotherham Pentecostal Church actually banned gays from his services — and a few jibes from the local National Front , we were always treated politely , listened to with interest and generally well received . |
| 12 | As the cortege approached Uzerche on its way north , the chronicler Geoffrey and a few monks from the priory of Vigeois , standing on a hill , watched it go by on the road below . |
| 13 | Small areas , finishing touches and a few stitches in a different type of yarn are easy to add once the knitting is completed . |
| 14 | The rudimentary lightshow soon kicks in , but really this is just Francis and a few members of the Fender clan : Tele , Strat and Twin Reverb . |
| 15 | The rudimentary lightshow soon kicks in , but really this is just Francis and a few members of the Fender clan : Tele , Strat and Twin Reverb . |
| 16 | Michael Degnan , 30 years in Bishop Auckland , strutted the theory last weekend shared by Arthur , Squeak and a few others of the Cumberland 's Friday night faithful that the name comes from the cockfighting pit that once was out the back . |
| 17 | IT 'S been a busy couple of months in the ‘ video vaults ’ of Corporate Communications with three videos distributed and a few others on the production line . |
| 18 | All the acts on tonight 's bill ( and a few others around the country ) would do well to have a long and critical look at what they 're doing and decide if people really need another adequate pop/rock/whatever band ! |
| 19 | It is difficult to characterize such relations as ‘ capitalist ’ , or to regard them as oppressive : most of the rich men of the Zuwaya managed their businesses in this way , getting a good return on money laid out , but creating wealth for poorer fellow tribesmen and a few others in the process . |
| 20 | Only northeast Scotland , parts of the southern Uplands and a few areas in the southwest receive less than 10kg/S/ha a year , and in the 1970s deposition was higher . |
| 21 | One three-month-old baby managed to talk its parents into sending Santa a letter asking for some clothes and a few bits for the cot . |
| 22 | It was a Sunday morning in late October about four months after Tess 's arrival at Trantridge , and a few weeks after the night ride in The Chase . |
| 23 | Green water can actually be beneficial to your pond fish and a few weeks in a thick green soup can improve your fish 's vitality and colour — but if you ca n't see the fish , there 's not a lot of point in keeping them . |
| 24 | You can enjoy yourself with beautiful smoked salmon and olives or soup , followed by roast lamb and a few spuds from the garden , French beans , or whatever . |
| 25 | A shabby little ferry chuckles across every couple of hours , taking lorries and a few cars on the quickest route between Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego . |
| 26 | A quarter of an inch in the waist here and a few millimetres on a horn there is often the extent of it . |
| 27 | They do in fact own almost literally nothing , except the house , and a few acres of the surrounding woodland to serve as a no-man's-land between them and the world . |
| 28 | and a few couples from the coeducational schools ventured forth to dance . |
| 29 | ( 55 ) I found a bottle with which I made numerous marks on the ground surrounding our tents and a few yards into the jungle , as far as I dared venture . |
| 30 | Only a few professors and their favourite students seem to have read enough to be able to consider a matter of style with any data at their disposal — these and a few poets of the better sort … |