Example sentences of "a [noun sg] and [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An ordinary little firm that has operated perfectly cheerfully with a clerk and a few assistants over the years , is it actually a practical proposition to install the computer and perhaps train one or two of the workers to use it ? |
| 2 | Near one of the posts , a hammer and a few nails had been left behind . |
| 3 | We bought one ( a mistake , we should have got two ) to supplement an old ladle-handle type of thing dug out from my past , and a hammer and a few pegs to be on the safe side . |
| 4 | Liability will not be avoided simply because the system has a fault and the same principles apply here as in the case of conventional computer software . |
| 5 | Fraction of a second And a few weeks earlier there was a similar incident with a child in a bed er and er all our minds were on that as well . |
| 6 | Morrissey and Marr borrowed a drummer and a few pounds and worked a night session in a scruffy Manchester 8-track studio . |
| 7 | In the past the normal essay was handed in complete in final draft , and marked with a grade and a few sentences of comment from the teacher . |
| 8 | A cold buffet , which can be topped up through the day , is ideal , and people float in and out , stopping just for a drink and a few peanuts , or staying much longer . |
| 9 | After a tour and a few interviews with convicts , she was in favour of sweeping reforms . |
| 10 | The possession of a cow or two , with a hog and a few geese , naturally exalts the peasant in his own conception , above his brethren in the same rank of society … |
| 11 | It 's well worth preparing a meal and a few snacks for the day of the move . |
| 12 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 13 | A licensed trainer since 1986 , Beaumont celebrated the biggest success of his career with a meal and a few drinks in Cheltenham on Thursday night . |
| 14 | A fortnight and a few days with me . |
| 15 | ‘ He was Rainer Schickert for only a year and a few months — and mostly in hiding . |
| 16 | ‘ There was no way I should have got out of that with just a scratch and a few bruises . |
| 17 | She watched her mother walk out of the kitchen as if in a trance and a few seconds later Carla was nestled in her granny 's arms . |
| 18 | There are some great set pieces — a brilliantly evoked highway robbery , with Macheath 's gang riding invisible horses and commandeering a stage coach suggested by just a table and a few boxes ; and a grotesque parade of whores , some of them played by men in drag , in which the ladies of the night emerge through a trap-door like beauty contestants from hell . |
| 19 | ‘ Alan is a great player but I find it strange that a Scot is preferred to an Irishman and the more matches I win , the bigger the snub will be . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Alan is a great player but I find it strange that a Scot is preferred to an Irishman and the more matches I win , the bigger the snub will be . ’ |