Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The delightfully named village of Chigny-les-Roses is situated south of Reims , on the northern slopes of the Montagne , a few kilometres west of the grand cru villages of Mailly-Champagne and Verzenay . |
| 4 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 5 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 6 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 7 | A few feet south of the CBR entrance was a side entrance to the hotel leading down to a beer parlour on one side and the spacious Hotel Cafeteria on the other . |
| 8 | The Seychelles lie in the middle of the Indian Ocean , just a few degrees south of the equator . |
| 9 | Just a few yards north of the inn is a farm that serves teas in the summer . |
| 10 | In Dyfed ( formerly Pembrokeshire ) Hancock et al. ( 1983 ) locate the Variscan Front in a zone of conjugate folds and thrusts a few miles north of the Johnston Thrust . |
| 11 | He was on patrol with two other UN military observers when the mine exploded as they were driving around a small bridge a few miles north of the temples in Siem Reap province . |
| 12 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
| 13 | They were in Carlisle , just a few miles south of the Scottish-English border . |
| 14 | The fire probably started in a rubbish dump , above an old strip mine a few miles east of the town , in May 1962 . |
| 15 | One such hamlet is Somersby , in the heart of the wolds , just a few miles east of the market town of Horncastle . |
| 16 | Howard spent the night of 19th August at Camas Meadows , a few miles south-east of the Nez Perce camp . |
| 17 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |