Example sentences of "a few [noun] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only northeast Scotland , parts of the southern Uplands and a few areas in the southwest receive less than 10kg/S/ha a year , and in the 1970s deposition was higher . |
| 2 | A few areas in the world are phylloxera-free and the vines there are sometimes ungrafted . |
| 3 | The rain will gradually die down from the west , to leave only a few showers in the south-east by the end of the day . |
| 4 | This morning , most areas had a bright start — apart from a few showers in the east . |
| 5 | Er it seems to me that erm there are probably quite a few policies in the structure plan that could be omitted if we just took the all the P P Gs as read . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're in a bizarre situation , are n't we , with me having access to some of the files and a few contacts in the Service and you doing the interrogations ? ’ |
| 7 | On Day One , the simple exercise of shooting a few scenes in the garden was partly to familiarise you with the idea of editing in camera . |
| 8 | particles are stopped by a sheet of aluminium and a have a range of a few metres in the air . |
| 9 | Quickly I seized needle and thread and began to insert a few sutures in the vulva . |
| 10 | But I 've noticed a few faces in the crowd and it wo n't be long . |
| 11 | Heresy in the shape of Lollardy in the fifteenth century had only a few adherents in the county , but they were rather spectacular . |
| 12 | There is a further division when one includes Northern Ireland , where the community is divided along mutually exclusive lines ( see Chapter 9 ) : a few families in the province still speak the Irish form of Gaelic . |
| 13 | The situation was quiet , with just a few soldiers in the street , for the next few days . |
| 14 | There are a few surprises in the music itself , no neglected giants waiting to be discovered ( not , at least , on the strength of the music recorded here ) . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's going to be a lot of fun and there will be a few surprises in the interval , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Most of 'em do n't get used more than a few hours in the year . |
| 17 | There have been quite a few changes in the Magazine Team over the past year . |
| 18 | We cranked the motor for added security and put a few wraps in the roller reefing genoa to make it easier to control . |
| 19 | ‘ But I thought it was extremely funny — Audrey would whizz through a few chores in the shop , then she 'd go swanning off shopping somewhere , ’ smiles Sue . |
| 20 | While you , Dorothy my dear , started out as a small tub , straight into deep choppy waters , with quite a few holes in the bottom , no rudder , no sails . |
| 21 | Punch a few holes in the container to allow a little ventilation . |
| 22 | That would have punched a few holes in the City 's sang-froid , I can tell you . ’ |
| 23 | Roget 's Thesaurus offers many approximations to the word ‘ fine ’ , as well as a few phrases in the connexion . |
| 24 | Move to the Right , accept Witte 's or Stolypin 's terms for a few posts in the cabinet , and they risked becoming hostages in a regime over which they would exercise no control . |
| 25 | Chemical shifts are generally of a few eV or less , and overlap of lines due to different elements is unlikely , as each element contributes at most a few lines in the range 50–1200 eV , while the instrumental linewidth is of the order of 2 eV . |
| 26 | At last someone has had the nerve to bring the area in line with the rest of British climbing : no longer will it be a quiet backwater resigned to a few lines in the climbing press about some brilliant new VDiff on a puny little crag in the back of beyond . |
| 27 | The temperature will only rise a little this afternoon — we can expect around nine or ten degrees celsius , that 's about forty eight fahrenheit , but there will be a few spots in the east that will get a degree or two higher . |
| 28 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 29 | AFTER a few minutes in the company of Joe Boyd , I was wondering whether there was anybody in world music he had not heard of . |
| 30 | It took a few minutes in the kitchen to make the mug of strong chicory coffee to which he added a liberal lacing of brandy . |