Example sentences of "with a few [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ When I have often heard ’ is in the 1692 word-book ; the Plaint is on a single-sheet insert bound into the 1693 word-book , with a few lines of dialogue to cover the joins . |
| 3 | Answer the following questions , each with a few lines of explanation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It means you 'll lose a bit of paintwork when you do the job but very u most often you can get it all back together with a few flakes of paint missing . |
| 6 | covered over with sn with a few feet of snow . |
| 7 | You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’ |
| 8 | He was dark-haired with a few strands of hair on his upper lip . |
| 9 | I would get a stocking with a few bits of things in when I was young and Grandma used to make a big cake with white icing , but that would be when Daddy was alive . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Really she was getting off lightly with a few glasses of bleach . |
| 12 | Thought you might be able to help with a few snippets of case law . ’ |
| 13 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |
| 14 | Left : Give homemade cushions a sumptuous , exotic look , with a few metres of piping , cord or fringing |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | He ( or she ) wo n't find a dead body in the foreshore , but he might well return home with a few cans of paint , a drum of oil , a host of seaborne lost offerings , or even a net of Spanish oranges tucked under his arm . |
| 17 | There was another knock on the door ; a signal that the T'ang acknowledged with a few words of Mandarin . |
| 18 | Sir Thomas , however , or rather his stomach , clearly did not agree , for halfway through the entremets , with a few words of apology he absented himself from-the table . |
| 19 | Botha , meanwhile , signed off with a few words of advice for the Welsh : ‘ They are going berserk about nothing and it might be time for the WRU to concentrate on their own rugby . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Modern brick and concrete duplexes squatted here and there along the road , each with a few rows of vines trained along wires suspended from concrete posts behind them . |
| 22 | It was obviously a recently fledged bird , still with a few tufts of down adhering to its head , but of its parents there was no sign . |
| 23 | This picture has been placed inside a 7. 5-cm ( 3-in ) square aperture , and I used some small silverweed leaves , with a few sprays of forget-me-not , some geums , two pink larkspurs , plus several red and white hawthorn blossoms . |
| 24 | Though focused on the bouncing bow of the violin , with a few grains of salt , these types can be transferred to other media as well . |
| 25 | Most of these rural craftsmen were still part-time farmers or cottagers with a few acres of land and rights on the commons and wastes . |
| 26 | The sections are then zero bonded with epoxy as described in Section 4.4.2 , to form a double glass mount with a few millimetres of rock sandwiched between . |
| 27 | I FIRST came across Theatre de Complicite seven years ago in a show called More Bigger Snacks Now , which featured a definitive demonstration of just how much mess it is possible to make with a few packets of crisps and a couple of cans of Coke . |
| 28 | The table was littered with shrimp whiskers , the sponge-cake gobbled up to the last crumb — but all she could do was to sip painfully at a meagre cup of tea and toy with a few shoots of mustard and cress , although she had prepared the extensive meal . |
| 29 | Not just the clink of milk bottles , but more strangely , the sounds of a group with a few pintas of potential . |
| 30 | The organic layer was washed with H 2 O , dried over anhydrous Na 2 SO 4 , mixed with a few drops of concentratd NH 4 OH , and evaporated in vacuo . |