Example sentences of "a few [adj] [noun] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telomere function seems to be fully defined within a few hundred base pairs in ciliates or yeasts and thousands base pairs in vertebrates . |
| 2 | There were a few small fishing boats in the Bay each sitting in its place without moving . |
| 3 | I think what we actually want is more people who are more in tune with working people and their hopes , and their dreams and their aspirations , and tha in , in parliament , in the House of Commons than we 've got at the moment and so the motion I 'm putting forward which is to propose that we actually look at the Parliamentary Panel and make sure we get a few decent shop stewards in the House of Commons , a few people who got experience of actually being on the shop floor , a few people who got experience in the last fourteen years , that the last four Conservative governments have actually tried and defend and fight for the interests of working people right down the grass root , those are the people that we actually need in the House of Commons and we shall be looking at our Parliamentary Panel and we shall be looking at it very seriously to ensure that we get those sort of people onto that Parliamentary Panel and those sort of people into the House of Commons , that 's the best way to represent working people in Britain today and that 's the sort of contribution the G M B should be making . |
| 4 | And Gwyn 's hoping Rambo will father a few more record breakers in the future . |
| 5 | Before he had left for the airport , he had attended to a few last minute details in his study at Buckingham Palace . |
| 6 | A little walled garden , with a few pollarded lime trees in it , and one or two urns and busts , and a solitary policeman tucked away in a little sentry-box inside the gateway . |