Example sentences of "a few [noun] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Budgetary concerns and the drive for self-sufficiency ( UX No 374 ) , are forcing OSF to retract back to a few core technologies like DCE , DME and Motif , and to hold off on any further technology requests .
2 Arbuckle directed a few comedy shorts as William Goodrich , was booed when he toured the backwoods in second-rate farces , and began to drink heavily .
3 Within a few hours drive of Gwent , for instance , lie some fascinating areas — the Forest of Dean , formerly a major coal-producing area ; Snowdonia , where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere ; Pembrokeshire , where pretty fishing villages once exported coal , and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas .
4 Only a few hours drive from Glasgow to a world of serenity and tranquillity .
5 In a few hours time in Toronto Lynn Gibson will be racing for Britain in the 800 metres …
6 Earlier manmetric studies of the UOS in children used perfused sidehole pull through methods with sedation , an approach that only gives a few sample values of UOS pressure and these are influenced by the effects of sedation and stress .
7 A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently .
8 I had er put a promotion together with a few travel agents in Scotland where I gave out holiday spending money .
9 But at the moment only a few treatment plants in Britain have the equipment to do this .
10 Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture .
11 Last June saw the opening of a new museum in Ingolstadt , a few kilometres north of Munich , devoted to concrete art the art of geometric form and pure colour espoused in the 1930s by artists such as Arp , Kupka , Vantongerloo and van Doesburg .
12 Some stolen cattle were transported from the Northern Band to supply the beef market at Kandy ; the Moors of Akurana , a few kilometres north of Kandy , were said to be involved in this trade .
13 The most important river in the region is the Marne which starts life in dramatic surroundings a few kilometres south of Langres , not far from the magnificent Château le Pailly .
14 Among the intelligentsia , hardly a voice was raised in its defence , with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism .
15 In August one year he spent a few days holiday at Saxon-les-Bains in the Rhone Valley , where he had an interest in a fruit preserving factory .
16 After the wedding , a reception was held in the New Farm Loch Community Centre , followed by a few days honeymoon in York .
17 A few miles north of Leominster , Berrington Hall is an 18th-century house with gardens designed by the father-in-law of Capability Brown .
18 A few miles north of Banbury , in the village of Cropredy , Prescote Manor dominates the meadows of the Cherwell River .
19 Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance .
20 A few miles north of Thurlstone the new textile settlement at Clayton West had chapels for the Wesleyans , Independents , Particular Baptists , Methodist New Connection and Primitive Methodists , and the new Wesleyan Reform movement met in Aaron Peace 's warehouse , but those who preferred the services of the established church had to climb the steep hill to the ancient parochial centre at High Hoyland .
21 The 114-acre Jordanstown campus is situated in the borough of Newtownabbey , a few miles north of Belfast .
22 The 114-acre Jordanstown campus is situated in the borough of Newtownabbey , a few miles north of Belfast .
23 From here William marched his men to the spot , a few miles north of Hastings , where the Norman and Saxon armies met in bloody battle on October 14th , 1066 .
24 The discovery was made by a farmer 's son , Euan Baird , 16 , who was out walking in a private forestry plantation near the family farm at Scotston , Auchterhouse , a few miles north of Dundee .
25 Harewood House , a few miles north of Leeds , contains the richest collection of Chippendale furniture in the world
26 A famous attempt to resolve the matter is commemorated at Altnacealgach , ‘ the burn of the cheat ’ , a few miles north from Elphin .
27 When you visit the ancient university town of Cambridge and enjoy the historic college buildings along the River Cam , you should not fail to travel a few miles south to Audley End House in neighbouring Essex .
28 Henry VIII impressed the Continent , in the midsummer of 1520 , at the ‘ Field of the Cloth of Gold ’ held a few miles south of Calais , and which lasted four weeks with jousts , summit talks , banquets and entertainment .
29 A few miles south of Meikleour , can be found the point at which the River Isla adds its weight .
30 When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed .
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