Example sentences of "the [noun] of a few [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 2 | Apparently they 're the offspring of a few cabbage white butterflies which were blown across the channel , have hatched , and are currently munching their way through the garden of England . |
| 3 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 4 | The political awakening that followed the Second World War and the period when French West Africans were able to elect members to the French Parliament saw the establishment of a few party papers , but few Africans could read them and their circulations were extremely low . |
| 5 | Gray ( 1986 , pp. 11 , 16 ) sees ‘ little evidence of genuine assessment beyond the establishment of a few input indicators ’ , and suggests that we are witnessing ‘ the ascendancy of economy and efficiency over effectiveness and efficacy ’ . |
| 6 | While they chased the business of a few gambling councils , some City lawyers were already arguing that councils could enter into swaps only to hedge interest-rate payments on normal borrowings . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ The National is the racing showpiece of the world and we need to act now to stop it being destroyed by the apathy and negligence of the ruling body and the actions of a few animal rights protesters and rowdies . |
| 8 | ‘ The National is the racing showpiece of the world and we need to act now to stop it being destroyed by the apathy and negligence of the ruling body and the actions of a few animal rights protestors and rowdies . |
| 9 | As all sand surfaces possess chance irregularities , even though they may be only of the magnitude of a few sand grains , there is a natural tendency for ripples to form . |
| 10 | A very simple and beautiful example of the use of substitution notes may be found at the beginning of Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde : Here the commonplace cadence A minor-F7-E7 is given a subtle mystery through the use of a few substitution notes as follows : in bar 2 , G is a chromatic substitution for A ( on which it resolves ) , while B is a diatonic substitution for A or C , on which it does not resolve ; in bar 3 , A substitutes chromatically for B , on which it resolves . |
| 11 | I ca n't believe that , within the space of a few shit |
| 12 | It was only a pallid disc in the sky , shedding thin white light through the still air on to the faces of a few well-wrapped-up and elderly people , who sat on the benches along the Promenade , taking the air . |
| 13 | The characteristic core levels of the constituent atoms remain in the molecules , with only very slight shifts in energy ( of the order of a few eV ) due to the electrostatic charge on each atom . |
| 14 | Among the intelligentsia , hardly a voice was raised in its defence , with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism . |