Example sentences of "and [adv] a few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disappointment for Oxford , joy for Swindon and perhaps a few more converts to Rugby League . |
| 2 | Many were sent to psychiatric hospitals and put in overcrowded wards with real mental patients and only a few overworked nuns to supervise them . |
| 3 | In 1987 the ‘ Black Album ’ of pop singer Prince was withdrawn before it was issued , and only a few genuine copies ‘ escaped ’ . |
| 4 | She exuded power : the power to change a boy 's destiny with a stern shake of her head and only a few official-sounding words . |
| 5 | Nowadays , a gated road leads past scattered farms , and only a few uneven mounds give evidence of the castle . |
| 6 | He was running what was mostly a sixties disco with a sprinkling of classic rock and only a few recent standards . |
| 7 | Earlier it had been drawn overwhelmingly from the privileged strata , the sons of the landed nobility and higher ranks of the civil service , and only a few outstanding figures had emerged as pioneers in the ‘ gentry stage ’ of the revolutionary movement . |
| 8 | In the afternoon we arrived at the truly beautiful island of Mayero which has no boutiques or roads and only a few hundred inhabitants . |
| 9 | Around 700 warders are stationed at the Belfast jail which houses loyalist and republican remand prisoners and only a few sentenced prisoners . |
| 10 | When the temperature of crystallization is close to the melting temperature , nucleation is sporadic and only a few large spherulites will grow . |
| 11 | Following his adoption of the new methods , there were no deaths and only a few minor complications in thirty-five patients treated without selection at the Liverpool Infirmary . |
| 12 | The drains were at last able to carry the surface water and only a few isolated areas remained flooded . |
| 13 | The process was never completed owing to a lack of consensus in a number of important areas and only a few piecemeal changes have been made over the years , most recently the creation of Schools in 1989 . |
| 14 | Among vertebrates , no mammals , and only a few domestic strains of birds , are parthenogenetic , but there are wild ‘ species ’ of lizards consisting only of parthenogenetic females . |
| 15 | There were no enemies and only a few night-time predators on the steppe ; however he was pleased to note that elementary security was not being neglected . |
| 16 | The heating was woefully inadequate — upstairs there were just pipes running round the rooms , and downstairs a few scattered radiators . |
| 17 | The exposition will feature exhibits by 165 companies , and a concurrent conference with a keynote address by Scott McNealy of Sun , presentations by Bill Coleman , vice-president system software and James Bill Maier , director product marketing of SunSoft , Kaivalya Dixit of the System Performance Evaluation Council and just a few Japanese speakers including Takashi Kato of the Ministry of International Trade & Industry 's Agency of Industry and Technology . |
| 18 | Now , on the Report itself , and just a few quick points . |
| 19 | Right and probably a few other things . |
| 20 | This had long been the LRDG 's main base with clear water and even a few European houses . |
| 21 | In the shade beneath them pigs , dogs , domestic fowls , horses and even a few ancient buffalos swarmed in a stinking congregation . |
| 22 | There were a few obvious English tourists , but even more elderly Italians , and even a few young couples , as if it were the fashionable thing to do . |
| 23 | These are just some of the simple questions which , if asked , can prevent novice desktop publishers , and even a few older hands , from making fundamental errors . |
| 24 | There was a handful of verminous women , too , and even a few sickly children . |
| 25 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 26 | You must concentrate on a dairy and maybe a few tender crops we could never grow up north . |
| 27 | I thought I was getting David and maybe a few personal possessions , but when he actually turned up , he was with a friend in a very large van , and this rather ethereal , thin , slightly spotty figure that was David in those days , dressed in extremely scruffy clothes , emerged from this van carrying a twelve string guitar , which it transpired was a present from Pete Townshend . |
| 28 | Then we did a show 1935–55 in which we included the first Americans and quite a few British artists , since they were fairly late going into constructivism . |