Example sentences of "[prep] a few [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a little short , but she managed quite well after a few practice steps . |
| 2 | I had to eventually sort it out after a few sorta threats off the bank . |
| 3 | A friend of mine once returned to her house after a few month 's absence and found that though the font of her desk looked exactly the same as before she left , termites had eaten out the back of it and destroyed the contents of several drawers . |
| 4 | As all sand surfaces possess chance irregularities , even though they may be only of the magnitude of a few sand grains , there is a natural tendency for ripples to form . |
| 5 | " The neighbourhood was not very populous and during the first three days our visitors were few , some children from the village below , a gypsy woman or two with dark eyes , who carried of a few halfpence , and perhaps a chance passer by . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Yet Northern Ireland is like Italian politics used to be : dominated by its partyocracy and political blocs , shifts of a few percentage points represent an earthquake . |
| 8 | There have been dramatic declines of a few bird species as a result of using some chemicals , and perhaps more subtle and long-term changes as a result of the simplification of the plant community of farmland arising from cropping changes and the widespread use of increasingly sophisticated herbicides . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century , when the only particle energies that people knew how to use were the low energies of a few electron volts generated by chemical reactions such as burning , it was thought that atoms were the smallest unit . |
| 10 | Among the intelligentsia , hardly a voice was raised in its defence , with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism . |
| 11 | I ca n't believe that , within the space of a few shit |
| 12 | He said : ‘ The National is the racing showpiece of the world and we need to act now to stop it being destroyed by the apathy and negligence of the ruling body and the actions of a few animal rights protesters and rowdies . |
| 13 | ‘ The National is the racing showpiece of the world and we need to act now to stop it being destroyed by the apathy and negligence of the ruling body and the actions of a few animal rights protestors and rowdies . |
| 14 | It might remind him of a few school episodes he will have made sure to forget . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Apparently they 're the offspring of a few cabbage white butterflies which were blown across the channel , have hatched , and are currently munching their way through the garden of England . |
| 17 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 18 | For the short-term gain of a few mining companies . ’ |
| 19 | A very simple and beautiful example of the use of substitution notes may be found at the beginning of Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde : Here the commonplace cadence A minor-F7-E7 is given a subtle mystery through the use of a few substitution notes as follows : in bar 2 , G is a chromatic substitution for A ( on which it resolves ) , while B is a diatonic substitution for A or C , on which it does not resolve ; in bar 3 , A substitutes chromatically for B , on which it resolves . |
| 20 | It was only a pallid disc in the sky , shedding thin white light through the still air on to the faces of a few well-wrapped-up and elderly people , who sat on the benches along the Promenade , taking the air . |
| 21 | Gray ( 1986 , pp. 11 , 16 ) sees ‘ little evidence of genuine assessment beyond the establishment of a few input indicators ’ , and suggests that we are witnessing ‘ the ascendancy of economy and efficiency over effectiveness and efficacy ’ . |
| 22 | While they chased the business of a few gambling councils , some City lawyers were already arguing that councils could enter into swaps only to hedge interest-rate payments on normal borrowings . |
| 23 | He noted that the wavelength of sound in water at a frequency of a few gigahertz ( thousand million cycles per second ) is comparable with that of visible light . |
| 24 | You can see that with the possible exception of a few dust samples there are no radiometric ages older than 4600 Ma , which is additional evidence for this being the age of formation of the planets . |
| 25 | The characteristic core levels of the constituent atoms remain in the molecules , with only very slight shifts in energy ( of the order of a few eV ) due to the electrostatic charge on each atom . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 28 | I know , we 're not er we ai n't af we ai n't afraid of a few bum workers cos we have got er good engineers like , you know ? |
| 29 | The political awakening that followed the Second World War and the period when French West Africans were able to elect members to the French Parliament saw the establishment of a few party papers , but few Africans could read them and their circulations were extremely low . |
| 30 | The discovery reduced the discrepancies in Uranus 's orbit to the level of arcseconds , comparable with the noise in the observations , but that did not stop some astronomers from predicting a planet beyond Neptune , of a few Earth masses . |