Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] of [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few moments of Dr McNab 's saline injections Dr Dunstaple had begun to revive . |
| 2 | ‘ No , all I 'm asking you for is a few moments of Master Lorimer 's time . |
| 3 | Many of the upland landscapes today are like patch-work quilts of forest and open moorland , with a few areas of upland bogs preserved for their rare , wild , moorland plants . |
| 4 | I have a few copies of quality magazines ; the girls are just gorgeous . |
| 5 | Although this was brought about by the Gulf War and the subsequent world recession , it is certainly now exacerbated by an unrestrained and reckless war of attrition in which dollars are hauled over the top of the grain of a few inches of market share . |
| 6 | They require fairly rich soil , and , after planting , all the branches will be cut back to within a few inches of ground level to encourage them to produce more branches for berry production next year . |
| 7 | Seen from a hill , the dunes stretched as far as the deep blue of the horizon , above which were a few streaks of cirrus cloud . |
| 8 | This will probably involve a social worker in an area team putting together a package that might consist of a few hours of home care , a couple of days of day care , and night sitting for one night . |
| 9 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 10 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
| 11 | If you 're fighting Dwarfs , who you know will stand around a lot waiting for you to come and get them , then a few rounds of bolt fire from two or three machines can soften them up nicely . |
| 12 | A few rounds of model building using FRODO , followed by cycles of least-squares refinement reduced the R -factor to 33% . |
| 13 | That , that was the start , the start of it , I think how it actually commenced so they used to get in each other 's houses and play a few games of cards dominoes and draughts things like that , and they , they took over they must have actually bought the houses before they built the club . |
| 14 | Thought you might be able to help with a few snippets of case law . ’ |
| 15 | My father thought the sentence unjust because he had only agreed to buy a few bottles of bootleg whisky . |
| 16 | We were applauded when we reported our record , and one of the newly recruited flying students opened a few bottles of root beer by way of celebration . |
| 17 | If you have dry skin , you may wish to mix the essences with a few teaspoonfuls of vegetable oil ; that is , if you do not mind cleaning a greasy bath afterwards ! |
| 18 | A few decades of road improvements have encouraged motorists to visit beauty spots formerly difficult of access . |
| 19 | Never having read a word of Norse ( Old Icelandic ) before , Lewis plunged in and attempted a few lines of Laxdaela Saga . |
| 20 | A few minutes of air time on a small radio station ? |
| 21 | It became the Chancellor 's habit to interrupt his morning procession to work for a few minutes of Cabinet Room conversation with the Prime Minister . |
| 22 | A few minutes of television time was so precious . |
| 23 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 24 | In minutes they stood facing each other across a few feet of upland grass , the fresher horses of Jinneth 's escort stamping impatiently . |
| 25 | I 've used quite a few buckets of water washing walls . |
| 26 | When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch . |
| 27 | With a few words of explanation Sophie made the introduction and as they walked together into the house her godmother said , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've got some news which wo n't please you , but first of all I want to hear yours . ’ |
| 28 | After the 1915 offensives , the troops had come to believe that if Pétain called for an attack there must be some point to it , that it would not be a senseless sacrifice of lives in the way of those over-ambitious generals , out to gain recognition from the conquest at any price of a few yards of enemy trench . |
| 29 | Perhaps a few examples of Smithsonian directors ' thinking in rejecting and accepting material , or even releasing items in the collections , might throw light on the subject . |
| 30 | Similarly , the French team will re-analyse a few examples of survey data collected by research workers at the Institute of Psychiatry . |