Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [conj] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get the knives and forks and some bread and a few plates and take them next door ! 1 ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The structure of the EEIG is flexible ; accordingly , one participant could contribute capital ( if indeed any is needed ) , another know-how and a third services . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Cool classical porticoes appeared at Dover , Delaware , and Lexington , Kentucky , early this century and a scaled-down Beaux-Arts style was used at Worcester , Massachusetts , Tacoma , Washington ( 1910 ) , Montclair , New Jersey ( 1913 ) , and Broad Street , Richmond , Virginia ( 1917–19 ) . |
| 6 | I was n't therefore able to recommend this film when a few months later a woman from Nottingham requested a loan . |
| 7 | PROPERTY to be made available for a would-be council tenant is expected to raise some interest and a few eyebrows . |
| 8 | He had acted in accordance with the Punjab creed , but with too much enthusiasm and a few decades too late . |
| 9 | Thicken towards the end of cooking if necessary with plain flour mixed with a little water and a few drops of bottled gravy browning . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He saw her through a gilt-framed mirror on the opposite wall , and that first glimpse of her brought him more joy than a dozen Christmases put together . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Other sites are just taking a subset of the data , perhaps their own county and a few others nearby . |
| 14 | A hardy annual , it can be grown in any garden where a few patches here and there can be a delight . |
| 15 | It says , DataGate will be able to data crunch — in the same way as a traditional mainframes but on a Unix or Windows NT server — maintaining mainframe-like data security and integrity features . |
| 16 | A single pound of uranium , it was claimed , could produce the same energy as a thousand tons of coal , whilst a hundred tons of uranium could provide all the electricity that the country could possibly need . |