Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] of [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beetles , wasps , squirrels etc feed upon the leaves and acorns of the oak ; but a tree that weighs 100 tonnes may produce only a few tonnes of such provender each year . |
| 2 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 3 | I get a few letters of this sort from people who think the advert for the B.A.E.C. in your classified section , which says it ‘ exists to help electronics enthusiasts ’ , is a general invitation to all and sundry to send their problems to me . |
| 4 | Golden-leaved marjoram , yellow-variegated lemon balm , white-variegated pineapple mint , purple-leaved sage , blue rue , the filmy leaves of bronze fennel , and the pink , purple and blue , leaf-like bracts of clary are a few herbs of this kind . |
| 5 | While she was doing this , within a few minutes of each other came Jasper , then Pat and Bert , then Roberta and Faye . |
| 6 | Within a few minutes of this treatment being given , he was able to button up his coat . |
| 7 | A few offences of this nature will involve the owner of the vehicle or employer of the driver . |
| 8 | Well we 've got a few details of some drop in centres this afternoon . |
| 9 | In the following sections , I shall look at a few examples of each type of problem with some illustrations from my own work . |
| 10 | But such generalizations as these , while perhaps being applicable to a few individuals of each country , can reasonably be said to be prejudiced statements based on inadequate sampling . |
| 11 | When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August , and Miss Ellen another heart attack , both old ladies died within a few days of each other . |
| 12 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
| 13 | Observations were taken over three weekdays within a few days of each other to cover the period between 8.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. , so that at each datapoint there were 1980 ( 11 hours x 60 minutes x 3 ) observations of activity for each individual . |
| 14 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 15 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |
| 16 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
| 17 | After a few days of this treatment , Moz began to feel less threatened by his owner , and began to greet her at the gate . |
| 18 | A few patches of such use can still be seen today , especially on small islands , but the practice has almost disappeared . |
| 19 | Originally ascribed to the 1660s it now seems highly likely that they date from the 1630s and were made within a few years of each other . |
| 20 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
| 21 | Within a few years of this edition Hopkins was firmly established in the canon of English poetry . |
| 22 | Room temperature fusion has been discovered independently and simultaneously by two groups in Utah working within a few miles of each other . |
| 23 | Police in north Oxfordshire believe the same thieves may have been behind two separate raids within a few miles of each other at Steeple Aston ; both raids were part of a spate of break-ins reported to police in the Fox F M area . |
| 24 | Finally I took a few ends of each colour ( I had n't got much to deal with ) and knitted pieces about twenty stitches by twenty rows , clipped them all together and sent them in with my resignation . |
| 25 | Last year , Britain hosted within a few weeks of each other the Moscow City Ballet , Moscow Classical Ballet , Moscow Ballet La Classique and the Russian State Ballet . |
| 26 | The last two — works of completely contrasting character — were written within a few weeks of each other . |
| 27 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
| 28 | Within a few weeks of this tragedy , on 29 May 1985 , further disaster struck at the European Cup Final between Italy 's Juventus and England 's Liverpool at Brussels ' Heysel Stadium . |
| 29 | My paternal grandparents had died within a few months of each other whilst she was training , and as Grandfather had tied up all his savings in annuity for my grandmother , none of his children had inherited anything from him . |
| 30 | All these developments certainly happened within a few months of each other . |