Example sentences of "plus a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no need for extreme temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees nor for expensive magnets : a battery , some water and palladium metal , the key ingredient , are all that you need , plus a few hundred dollars to buy the stuff . |
| 2 | It was stiff with blue and brown uniforms , the blue being mostly Waafs and the brown American airmen , plus a few pasty-looking American girls — ‘ rejects ’ as they were unkindly called . |
| 3 | It shows that while the UK was in deep deficit in trade with the dollar area , in most years this was added to significantly by the deficit of the rest of the sterling area ( broadly speaking , the Dominions minus Canada , plus the colonies , plus a few other countries like Iraq ) . |
| 4 | The SAPC consists largely of representatives from Regional and District Councils , plus a few other organisations such as police , motoring associations etc . |
| 5 | He and his partner , Gary Armstrong , playing together in a major international for the 25th time , plus a few other Scots , must have booked their places on the forthcoming British Lions tour to New Zealand . |
| 6 | In practice , this meant NHS , NHS , NHS , plus a few triumphalist and premature nothings about the bright future ahead . |
| 7 | Without a specific perpetuity period of at least the length of the term ( if the term exceeds 21 years ) plus a few additional years to cover holding over under the 1954 Act , there would be no right to use pipes placed under the premises during the 23rd year of the term . |
| 8 | All you could send to them were the printable characters , plus a few simple commands like ‘ carriage return ’ and ‘ line feed ’ . |
| 9 | At a later date , however , the fort was probably moved to lower ground and so closer to the site of the future town ; two pieces of cavalry equipment from the Bleachfield Road area plus a few Claudian coins and some slight remains of early timber-framed buildings , might be thought to support this view . |
| 10 | In fact only a few of Scotland 's great views are included but many well known ones elsewhere are covered such as Cat Bells and Snowdon , plus a few less familiar ones such as Mow Cop on the edge of the Cheshire Hills and Bennachie in Aberdeenshire . |
| 11 | Only the lower storey of the main mill block survives , plus a few ancillary buildings , this having been imaginatively converted into showrooms , still retaining some of the original iron Venetian mill windows . |
| 12 | Apart from the start state , which must be presented in full , any state can be described as its parent plus a few more details . |
| 13 | That , together with the 20 per cent or so the socialists were hoping to pick up , plus a few more votes taken from the Communists and the Centrists , could have made a respectably sized movement . |
| 14 | The away end bogs , according to who was forced to abandon half-times plans for a piss , are Heysel revisited — one narrow tunnel going into and coming out of the place was crammed with hundreds of fans all going in and out at the same time , plus a few old bills looking on saying helpfully ‘ I should n't do that if I were you . |
| 15 | Actually there are many stars with proper names , but in general these are used only for the first 30 or so , plus a few fainter stars of special interest — such as Polaris , Mizar in the Great Bear , and the variable star Mira , in Cetus , the Whale . |
| 16 | The second Duma consisted of the same as before plus a few Social Democrats . |