Example sentences of "a few [noun] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |
| 2 | Within a few hours drive of Gwent , for instance , lie some fascinating areas — the Forest of Dean , formerly a major coal-producing area ; Snowdonia , where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere ; Pembrokeshire , where pretty fishing villages once exported coal , and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas . |
| 3 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 4 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 5 | Last June saw the opening of a new museum in Ingolstadt , a few kilometres north of Munich , devoted to concrete art the art of geometric form and pure colour espoused in the 1930s by artists such as Arp , Kupka , Vantongerloo and van Doesburg . |
| 6 | Some stolen cattle were transported from the Northern Band to supply the beef market at Kandy ; the Moors of Akurana , a few kilometres north of Kandy , were said to be involved in this trade . |
| 7 | The most important river in the region is the Marne which starts life in dramatic surroundings a few kilometres south of Langres , not far from the magnificent Château le Pailly . |
| 8 | Back to that poky little shop , livin' off the takin 's of penny bags of bullseyes and a few pence worth of paraffin oil ! ’ |
| 9 | He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut . |
| 10 | Surplus component boards etc. are most useful if they contain expensive semiconductors , and are probably something that are best left to those who have a few years experience of electronics behind them . |
| 11 | A few miles north of Leominster , Berrington Hall is an 18th-century house with gardens designed by the father-in-law of Capability Brown . |
| 12 | A few miles north of Banbury , in the village of Cropredy , Prescote Manor dominates the meadows of the Cherwell River . |
| 13 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
| 14 | A few miles north of Thurlstone the new textile settlement at Clayton West had chapels for the Wesleyans , Independents , Particular Baptists , Methodist New Connection and Primitive Methodists , and the new Wesleyan Reform movement met in Aaron Peace 's warehouse , but those who preferred the services of the established church had to climb the steep hill to the ancient parochial centre at High Hoyland . |
| 15 | The 114-acre Jordanstown campus is situated in the borough of Newtownabbey , a few miles north of Belfast . |
| 16 | The 114-acre Jordanstown campus is situated in the borough of Newtownabbey , a few miles north of Belfast . |
| 17 | From here William marched his men to the spot , a few miles north of Hastings , where the Norman and Saxon armies met in bloody battle on October 14th , 1066 . |
| 18 | The discovery was made by a farmer 's son , Euan Baird , 16 , who was out walking in a private forestry plantation near the family farm at Scotston , Auchterhouse , a few miles north of Dundee . |
| 19 | Harewood House , a few miles north of Leeds , contains the richest collection of Chippendale furniture in the world |
| 20 | Henry VIII impressed the Continent , in the midsummer of 1520 , at the ‘ Field of the Cloth of Gold ’ held a few miles south of Calais , and which lasted four weeks with jousts , summit talks , banquets and entertainment . |
| 21 | A few miles south of Meikleour , can be found the point at which the River Isla adds its weight . |
| 22 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
| 23 | When Gerard Salvin wanted redress against the men who had attacked his house at Croxdale , just a few miles south of Durham itself , it was Gloucester to whom he appealed . |
| 24 | When south of the Mandovi , I stayed in the simpler Prainha Cottages , just a few miles south of Panjim ( Prainha , Dona Paula , tel : 8325917 ) . |
| 25 | A few miles south of Cambridge , and just as accessible from London , is Audley End House which is well worth a detour . |
| 26 | Listening to the autumn wind moaning across this corner of the sparse Northumberland coastline a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed , where Nora Simpson had lived for all of her married life , their memories of her were vivid . |
| 27 | Further north , and a few miles west of Fréteval , which Philip had held since last June , the lord of Vendôme switched his allegiance to France . |
| 28 | Large quarry faces at Scrabo Hill , a few miles west of Newtownards , show porous dune-bedded sandstones associated with rippled sandstones and thin layers of clay galls . |
| 29 | Sedgebrook is a pleasant village in the flat , once marshy area a few miles west of Grantham , near the confluence of two rivulets . |
| 30 | On 5–7 May the Schutzkorps took part in the mass exodus via the Loibl Pass into Austria where it formally surrendered on 12 May to 1st Guards Brigade , under 6 Armoured Div , and settled in Viktring camp , a few miles south-west of Klagenfurt , with other Yugoslav refugees ( see below ) . |