Example sentences of "with a few [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The pros are expected to come up with a few answers to problems .
2 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 .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 Answer the following questions , each with a few lines of explanation .
5 How distant that sounds and , on a train , it is a full 19 hours , with a few stops in Germany on the way .
6 We were only children when we left , after all , bundled on a train with a few provisions under cover of darkness , far too young to understand the forces that were shaping war and persecution .
7 I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 covered over with sn with a few feet of snow .
11 You ca n't buy me with a few armfuls of flowers . ’
12 He was dark-haired with a few strands of hair on his upper lip .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Really she was getting off lightly with a few glasses of bleach .
16 Thought you might be able to help with a few snippets of case law . ’
17 He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction .
18 Left : Give homemade cushions a sumptuous , exotic look , with a few metres of piping , cord or fringing
19 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 !
20 He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) .
21 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 .
22 On this leg of the patrol it was mostly long steams southward with a few breaks for routine rummage , and we saw little in the way of oil related activity .
23 There was another knock on the door ; a signal that the T'ang acknowledged with a few words of Mandarin .
24 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 .
25 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 . ’
26 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 . ’
27 I started to fix the tongue and groove boarding , and with a few boards in place , felt confident enough to work on the roof .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 Most of the mileage was on tarmac roads with a few miles cross country and admittedly , I did not have to use low ratio at any time .
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