Example sentences of "few [adj] [noun pl] of [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few hard-earned days of R and R , as the Americans put it , away from everything and everyone — or so I thought . |
| 2 | But how to wring new information from a few old pieces of vellum and papyrus ? |
| 3 | There 's nothing in the house except a few empty boxes of arms and munitions sent to our government by the North American regime . |
| 4 | Earnings per share rise partly because the retained businesses are managed profitably , but mainly because the extra earnings are bought with disproportionately few extra issues of capital or debt . |
| 5 | And I mean I , I find some clients are really lucky , you know they 've got a few fiddly bits of issues and they keep getting fifty pounds here and fifty pounds there , |
| 6 | Despite a few last-minute rewritings of arias and the customary professional intrigues among the singers , the opera 's première at the Regio Ducale theatre on 26 December 1770 was a great success . |
| 7 | Clare works for an estate agent so far up-market it 's mostly estates they deal in , not humble houses , no matter how extensive ; if it does n't boast a couple of salmon rivers , a few square miles of trees and a brace of hills , lochs or lakes , then they just are n't interested . |
| 8 | Societal divisions are such that neighbourhood patrols are dangerous and have to take on the appearance of armed convoys , but it is the style of policing which comes nearest to breaching the divide between the police and the community , so that the RUC is required to be persistent in utilizing it even though there are few obvious signs of success and despite the cost in human life . |
| 9 | The auction itself , while the organisers assured me was no more than their normal one , carried quite a few important items of furniture and there was also a wide range of smalls which commanded what I would consider to be better-than-normal prices . |
| 10 | Bottles of Coke , Tizer and Pepsi were lined up , along with a few token bottles of Perrier and Evian . |
| 11 | With Richard Hill warned for three beefy challenges on the impressive Matt Dawson and Mark Linnett fortunate that a few loose uses of fist and foot went unseen , the atmosphere was anything but festive . |
| 12 | There are few controlled studies of treatment and because of the complex nature of the disorder such studies are difficult to undertake . |
| 13 | Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion . |