Example sentences of "of [noun sg] and a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before dawn , I was propped on an elbow , with a warming mug of tea and a few verses of Romans . |
| 2 | The best decor for this type of tank consists of wood and a few rocks . |
| 3 | It had a big crew and a full commercial load — wax and mastic and wormwood seed , six bales of carpets and eighty baskets of sulphur , fifty bundles of silk and five hundred oxhides , two hundred barrels of saltpetre and a hundred bales of Syrian soda . |
| 4 | The aeroelastic engineer will usually be interested only in the fundamental mode of vibration and a few overtones , say 10 in all ; in the usual model this implies the dominant and the 9 immediately subdominant eigenvalues and vectors . |
| 5 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |
| 6 | Two basins were provided , with jugs of water and a few towels . |
| 7 | Turning to give his wife a look of gentleness and a few words of encouragement , he opened the door , his men fell in behind him and they left . |
| 8 | ‘ A little spartan , ’ he ran his finger along the nearest buttress and examined the dust it collected , ‘ probably seen better days , but nothing a good lick of paint and a few ornaments would n't help to brighten up . |
| 9 | They held their victims hostage for half an hour before making off with twenty thousand pounds worth of gold and a thousand pounds in cash . |
| 10 | He could see a tiny backyard with a scrap of lawn and a few flowers . |
| 11 | But in the potato channel are lumps of earth and a few stones masquerading as vegetable , and in the stone channel a few potatoes pretending to be mineral . |
| 12 | If you do not like a coffee house you have lost only the price of a cup of coffee and a few minutes of your time . |