Example sentences of "and a few [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |
| 2 | It can not be very comfortable , for it consists merely of an uneven depression on top of the stone wall , barely softened by dust and a few wisps of hay . |
| 3 | As a deep rumbling and a few wisps of smoke were produced by the yacht , he turned back to the Doctor . |
| 4 | This seemed to be a place where , despite noises in the night and a few dangers like trees that grew inside you and made your throat choke , a person might feel sale for always . |
| 5 | So I made myself at home at the Golden Turk ; the two-faced landlord greeted me civilly enough , providing a chamber on the second floor with a pallet bed and a few sticks of furniture . |
| 6 | Usual anti-climax — old birds standing round a bit o' grass at t'back they 'd got lease of for a few hours , wi' a garden label saying Mrs Edna Morrison and a few bunches of chrysanths put in rows . |
| 7 | From behind us , from the Muslim district of Shiyah , came about 20 people , husbands and wives and a few girls in summer dresses and a man with two little boys walking beside him . |
| 8 | Ellis has sent us some veal and ham pie and a few half-bottles of champagne : I must keep playing on his guilt . |
| 9 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 10 | Granuloma inguinale is evenly distributed in tropical regions , with a high prevalence in Papua New Guinea and Southern India and a few cases in Africa , the Southern USA , South-East Asia , and the Caribbean . |
| 11 | And a commonplace book , and a few letters from friends , and this one diary of Blanche Glover 's , just for three years . |
| 12 | In the past the normal essay was handed in complete in final draft , and marked with a grade and a few sentences of comment from the teacher . |
| 13 | If his language and intellectual categories are less startlingly novel today , it is because he , and a few others like Tom Nairn , have made them familiar to us . |
| 14 | Suburban residential development in Chiswick had already become noticeable by the end of the nineteenth century with Back Common load and the adjoining Bond Street , Holly Road , Clifton Gardens , Belmont Road and Grove on the north side of Chiswick high Road , and with Devonshire Road , Linden Gardens and Bolton Gardens — later renamed Duke Road-on the south side , and a few houses in Dukes Avenue , opposite to the end of Barrowgate Road , which itself had a number of houses , mostly at the Sutton Lane end , close to Dead Donkey Lane . |
| 15 | All went well until she tried to climb into a taxi after the reception at the exclusive Dorchester Club following a quiet ceremony for family and a few friends at Chelsea Register Office . |
| 16 | Surgical exploration confirmed pancreatitis with peritoneal petechiae and a few areas of cytosteatonecrosis . |
| 17 | SKIPPER Clive Freeman cracked a brilliant goal and a few jokes after Altrincham 's record-equalling 15th FA Cup triumph over League opposition . |
| 18 | Time was that decor in a tank consisted of a backdrop , a gravel substrate and a few bits of rock from the back garden that you hoped were inert and would n't affect water chemistry . |
| 19 | There 's a brand new Jag and a few bits of plant up there that need to be repossessed as quickly as possible . |
| 20 | You 'll need two plastic buckets , a couple of pounds of ‘ pea shingle ’ from the local builders ' merchant and a few drops of rosemary oil available from health stores or chemists . |
| 21 | Followed by one grated fresh apple topped with a quarter of a pint of vanilla-flavoured custard ( make half a pint of custard , adding a little extra sugar and a few drops of vanilla essence , and save half of it in the refrigerator for Friday ) . |
| 22 | Outside , the thunder rolled more loudly , and a few drops of rain began to plop against the thatch above their heads . |
| 23 | A licensed trainer since 1986 , Beaumont celebrated the biggest success of his career with a meal and a few drinks in Cheltenham on Thursday night . |
| 24 | Still he and Child were able to give some advice based on their experiences with African elephants — and a few words of warning . |
| 25 | Turning to give his wife a look of gentleness and a few words of encouragement , he opened the door , his men fell in behind him and they left . |
| 26 | It is worth quoting here from a speech made by Gladstone when he opened St Martin-in-the-Fields public library a hundred years ago , and a few words in answer by W.H. Smith who , incidentally , was of the opposite political persuasion : party politics were not involved in these vital matters then . |
| 27 | After a tour and a few interviews with convicts , she was in favour of sweeping reforms . |
| 28 | He strode ahead of Karlinsky , upon whom all eyes were fastened , and a few steps behind Karlinsky came Mrs Klein . |
| 29 | Jet beads , bone needles and pins and spoons , bronze horse-trappings and a tile of the IXth Legion lay on a stone table with a collection of coins and a few pieces of gold jewellery . |
| 30 | It is essential to provide places where the more sensitive species of marine fish can retire and a few pieces of rock to simulate their natural reef environment makes for a much more natural and stress-free environment . |