Example sentences of "[det] [noun] and a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she , also , was leaving a few secrets and a few memories behind . |
| 2 | If , however , it 's absorbed by osmosis through the skin , it simply paralyses in a death-like state for anything between a few hours and a few days , depending on the dosage . |
| 3 | Get the knives and forks and some bread and a few plates and take them next door ! 1 ’ |
| 4 | Some fun and a few games were certainly unavoidable ( there are colleagues who always go too far ) , but that was not the point of the Party 's annual seaside jamboree . |
| 5 | Erm , the conditions were erm slightly different on the second floor , in the sense that there were a few , few people and a few items of equipment erm , and there is a relatively great density of staff on the first floor than I would have found . |
| 6 | Asked who will be the principal purchasers at the sale , he pointed to ‘ private collectors , dealers , some middlemen and a few museums . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | The philosophy and system of pastoral care were spelt out at some length and a few pages were devoted to the issue of pupils ' individual needs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | PROPERTY to be made available for a would-be council tenant is expected to raise some interest and a few eyebrows . |
| 11 | He had acted in accordance with the Punjab creed , but with too much enthusiasm and a few decades too late . |
| 12 | Thicken towards the end of cooking if necessary with plain flour mixed with a little water and a few drops of bottled gravy browning . |
| 13 | I got quite good ones actually cos I got two children next to each other and a few years later I got them to do it again but I do n't know if I can find them all . |
| 14 | Fergus powered the car down out of the forest , through some more houses and a few lights . |
| 15 | We have , erm , one more paragraph and a few questions to discuss and time , what is it , it 's about ten past now , is it , according to your |
| 16 | He said he mostly cruised now — although he had done several Fastnets and a few Ton-Cups some years ago . |
| 17 | Other sites are just taking a subset of the data , perhaps their own county and a few others nearby . |
| 18 | The Labour Party , the Communists , most Liberals and a few Conservatives actively worked for the Republic , while many more Conservatives , many Catholics and the BUF supported Franco . |