Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Gloucester jockey Peter Scudamore a few moments of solitude and silence . |
| 2 | Is the price we pay for a few moments of Mills and Boon romance too high , leaving an aftermath of bitterness , boredom and let-down ? |
| 3 | So she 'd be able to have a few moments of peace and quiet in which to interview the woman . |
| 4 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 5 | The only sources so far identified in Europe comprise a few boulders from Piedmont and Switzerland . |
| 6 | Later that evening I joined them for dinner , sharing a few tins of Compo and three bottles of French cider . |
| 7 | Place a sheet of fine netting a few inches above cabbages and brassicas to keep cabbage white butterflies away . |
| 8 | He had been Sam 's best customer during his vacation , had spent a few pounds on skates and cycles , and had in fact hired these for days at a time . |
| 9 | She was not in the habit of ogling men , and although , over the past few months , she had accepted a few invitations to dinner or the theatre , none of her dates had even remotely magnetised . |
| 10 | Cannons are dangerous if sometimes unpredictable weapons whose manufacture is limited to a few groups of human and Dwarf experts . |
| 11 | Now , Roger , I beg you , let us go back to our chamber , warm ourselves , snatch a few hours of sleep and tomorrow , as we break fast in the hall , I shall confront the murderer . ’ |
| 12 | Myenteric plexuses often participate in familial amyloid polyneuropathy and in a few cases with AL and AA . |
| 13 | A quick walk down Coronation Street was followed by a few pints of Newton and Ridley Ale before we departed . |
| 14 | Wood , cork and well-laid vinyl tiles can be painted with gloss paint and given extra protection with a few coats of polyurethane or yacht varnish . |
| 15 | The Bhundu Boys have recently played a few dates in Spain and have toured in Australia , America and Europe . |
| 16 | The passageway here splits into two , one branch leading to the engine sump where a cage lies jammed for ever , the other leading to where a small spiral stairway runs up from a hole in the wall , over the tunnel , to the engine room which , apart from a few acts of vandalism and the ravages of time , is very much as it was on the day it was left . |
| 17 | This book does contain a few games with winners but I must say that , on the whole , I do not like elimination games . |
| 18 | There were a few sticks of furniture and the floor was beaten earth , rather cold despite the summer . |
| 19 | In a recent case , the police posed as ordinary civilians in order to trap a shop owner , licensed to sell liquor by the case only , into selling them a few cans of lager and a bottle of wine . |
| 20 | We were more used to being given a few cans of lager and that was it , ’ says Solowka . |
| 21 | Quite a few cans of Coke and things like that , quite a few cans for relieving yourself ! |
| 22 | Then , after a few glasses of wine and dessert , who knows , he might be able to have his way with her . |
| 23 | ‘ I only had a few glasses of wine and I 'm sure the police waited for me . |
| 24 | Have a few glasses of beer or Scotch or … you know … punch ! |
| 25 | With just a few bits of metal and lots of imagination , Meccano addicts can build anything from a replica of Blackpool Tower to a Lancaster bomber . |
| 26 | I mean I remember reading a few bits in English but , you know , |
| 27 | For example , if you bought some apples from a market stall and they were mostly bad and you already had a few apples at home and if , say , your bus had arrived , it might be perfectly legitimate to do absolutely nothing about the situation and avoid any discussion about it . |
| 28 | There were a few complaints of poverty and the money was slow to come in from Norfolk and Yorkshire . |
| 29 | Mauve had given him a few casts of hands and feet to take home and study . |
| 30 | The most convincing leys are short — usually only a few kilometres in length and probably never more than 30 km long . |