Example sentences of "and a few [noun] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burnham boat anglers enjoyed good sport with cod and a few dogfish and rays . |
| 2 | He looked through the xerox sheets that had been pressed between them but there was nothing too controversial there , just a Jenner Clinic catalogue and price schedule and a few dates and details . |
| 3 | The first signs of a problem start with greasy skin and a few blackheads or whiteheads on nose , cheeks and forehead , indicating the rise to maturity of previously insignificant grease glands . |
| 4 | Mrs Jenks had her skittish moments ; particularly after an evening at the music hall , and a few port and lemons . |
| 5 | Moran stood erect and apart on the platform , totally separate as he gazed at the hill across the tracks where the stationmaster 's brown horse and a few cattle and sheep grazed . |
| 6 | ‘ I remember in the early days there were only green fields and a few cottages and farmhouses . |
| 7 | In recently enclosed country we have instead an open regular mesh of by-roads , and a few field-paths and bridle-roads to fill in the larger spaces between the villages . |
| 8 | ‘ They 've taken him to Queen Elizabeth Hospital with a suspected broken leg and a few cuts and bruises . |
| 9 | There were some bruised shins and sprained ankles , black eyes and a few cuts and grazes but nothing you would n't get on a rugby field , although a couple of old ladies were taken off home by ambulance with attacks of the vapours . |
| 10 | So I boiled them in pan for the dog and I put some taters in and a few peas and carrots sort of thing and some Oxos and made him a r a right good dinner . |
| 11 | The resident fish consist of brown trout , char , eels and a few pike and stickleback . |
| 12 | Anna Coots and Patricia Hewitt , two of the most creative pamphleteers , ought to be assured peerages and a few quangoes if Mr Smith gets to Downing Street . |
| 13 | At a birthday party yesterday — on Kensington Woof Gardens — he and a few brothers and sisters handed £200,000 to Guide Dogs for the Blind for a new training centre in Southampton . |
| 14 | Apart from the Lloyd George Liberals , and a few socialists and Oswald Mosley , there were no significant supporters of more expansionary policies . |
| 15 | She looked again for Pete , but Pete was no longer there ; and now she could hear a scattering of spontaneous applause — applause ! — and a few cheers and whistles which told her that the host had finally arrived on the scene . |