Example sentences of "of a [det] [adj] [noun pl] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might consist of a few simple rules and procedure to control decision-making and conflict , for example . |
| 2 | A new generation of middle level developing countries is facing the difficult transition from being exporters of a few traditional commodities and receiving most external finance in the form of official aid to a varied pattern of trade and production , combined with use of more commerical loans or investment . |
| 3 | The real power lay outside the House of Commons , in the hands of a few rich magnates and aristocratic landowners . |
| 4 | These changes have , of course , encouraged non-Marxists to argue that Marxist theory is now invalid because power is no longer concentrated in the hands of a few economic owners and their friends . |
| 5 | These have radii of a few thousand miles and densities of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 6 | If a star 's mass is less than the Chandrasekhar limit , it can eventually stop contracting and settle down to a possible final state as a " white dwarf " with a radius of a few thousand miles and a density of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 7 | They protested vigorously when in the mid nineties the revolutionaries abandoned the thorough education of a few hand-picked pupils and turned to mass agitation and manipulation . |
| 8 | Another map showed contour lines , the positions of a few prominent objects and the heights of one or two locations . |
| 9 | Remember the fighting qualities of the Maccabeans ; think of the Warsaw ghetto and the amazing resistance therein of a few ordinary men and women who fought a whole battalion of Nazi storm-troopers , while Polish people stood by and wondered at such bravery . |
| 10 | He was able to assure her that in spite of a few twisted ankles and bruised limbs , those same Jocks were skiing not half badly by the time that strange wartime holiday was over . |
| 11 | ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’ |
| 12 | The work of a few farsighted publishers and booksellers was responsible for the formulation of an agreement to protect book prices . |