Example sentences of "a few [noun] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took his details , cleaned his face up and put a few butterfly plasters over the cut . |
| 2 | We feel that anthropologists are uniquely positioned to introduce a few question marks into the fundamental assumption of the discourse , and it is our hope that this book will provide some such . |
| 3 | Passers- by might expect a few satin teddies in the window . |
| 4 | I took down a few reference numbers from a noticeboard headed ‘ Cleaning ’ and then waited for my turn . |
| 5 | There are a few laughter lines around the eyes but the boyish grin is the same and at 57 , he looks 10 years younger . |
| 6 | A few mono copies of the album with the deleted cuts did make it out of the factory but no stereo version was believed to have been pressed until early this year , when the only known copy was advertised for auction by Strider Records of New York . |
| 7 | But seriously I think some people overreacted to a few throwaway lines in the mag — you 'd see far worse in many ‘ family newspapers ’ . |
| 8 | Simon Rundell , who works in one of the London hospitals threatened with closure , has a few home truths for the health secretary |
| 9 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently visited my hon. Friend 's constituency and delivered a few home truths to the city council about its housing policy failures . |
| 10 | There was also a touch of home — one of the Highlanders produced a few newspaper cuttings from the British Press . |
| 11 | And the speech was indeed a frank catalogue of the state of the personal computer business today : revenues down 14% , Apple Computer Inc , IBM and DEC contemplating low margins and sinking market share , the astronomical cost of developing a new package , the failure of PCs to penetrate much beyond word processing and spreadsheets , the monopoly lock of a few software houses on the marketplace and engineering 's inability to develop an intuitive box , all conspiring to dissuade any sensible PC guy from putting any more money into research and development . |
| 12 | Now it merits but a few column inches in a few papers . |
| 13 | We also achieved a few column inches in the Focus paper and brought the NCT to the attention of many people who had never heard of us before . |
| 14 | Jack began his practice in his usual fashion by hitting a few half shots with the short irons . |
| 15 | Chris Patten is among the sceptics : ‘ Even if it ( investment ) were to be successful and encourage a 40 or 50 per cent increase in the use of rail , it would make damn-all difference to the growth in road traffic — it would just take a few percentage points off the top . ’ |
| 16 | It added that control of inflation was necessary , but it was important that ‘ a reduction of a few percentage points in the headline inflation rate should not be achieved at a disproportionate cost in terms of income creation and employment ’ . |
| 17 | He was by no means unusual for his place and time : there were not a few London families in the mid-19th century who were busy accumulating all the paraphernalia that seemed to give them a gilt-edged claim to middle-class respectability — the portraits , the studio photographs , a family bible , ornate gravestones , even the odd crest and Latin motto . |
| 18 | There were quite a few South Africans within the Opera-Ballet during John 's time there . |
| 19 | On reaching the peg which had stopped my fall , he made a few trial attempts with the skyhook , just to find out how it worked . |
| 20 | Next to the Met Office was the teleprinter room where yards of paper would come spewing out from the machine at regular intervals , bearing coded weather reports from all the other Met Stations in the United Kingdom and a few weather ships in the Atlantic , and these had to be painstakingly plotted on blank charts of the British Isles . |
| 21 | There were still a few funeral directors within a thirty-mile radius I had not , as yet , contacted . |
| 22 | Scatter a few chocolate coins around the base of the cake . |
| 23 | We 'd get scared half the way through and back off and just stick a few ship pictures round the walls . |
| 24 | I had to eventually sort it out after a few sorta threats off the bank . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it 's a big move for a young girl and no doubt there will be a few family tears at the airport come June 21st . |
| 26 | I guess he 's just what Big Jack needs , a full-back who 'll try & get forward , and if they qualify we could see a few Leeds players in the USA even if without England and Scotland . |
| 27 | I like to have a few action songs in a party , either as part of a show or as an alternative to games . |
| 28 | She has a few men friends at the moment : ‘ They 're all special ’ , she smiles . |