Example sentences of "[adv] with a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 2 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
| 3 | He refused a professorship in Switzerland and went instead to Manchester , armed only with a few letters of introduction . |
| 4 | Ensure good contact by pegging in place with wire hoops or weighting it down with a few pebbles . |
| 5 | erm Anybody that 's well-organized , good at clerical operations , preferably can type a little bit even though , if only perhaps with a few fingers , erm would make a perfectly computer operator for a small firm . |
| 6 | When Alain 's mother finally went inside with a few rueful shakes of her head and a pleased look on her face , Jenna decided to risk all . |
| 7 | Sometimes he is just a secondary figure floating in the novel 's bloodstream , as at the fête where he has got roped in with a few other young men to be a marshal and make sure everything goes smoothly . |
| 8 | ‘ Like Dorigo and Stuart Pearce , I like to weigh in with a few goals and in pre-season I joked with the lads that I 'd get 15 this year . |
| 9 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
| 10 | The Festival is showing a selection of classics mixed in with a few notable recent releases . |
| 11 | The search for quality can be summed up in with a few ‘ Golden Rules ’ . |
| 12 | Boats heading out past the Needles found just odd cod along with a few whiting , rays , pout and dogfish . |
| 13 | He believed that the teachings of Christ gather together the wisdom of the ages into one source , and present it for the ‘ uneducated ’ along with a few miracles in order to win their attention and support ( much as the outlaw in the Western uses his gun in order to win an audience in a crowded saloon bar ) . |
| 14 | Anyway , he turned up at my house sometime later and , sure enough , I had n't finished it — so we sat down and did it together , along with a few others while we were in the mood . ’ |
| 15 | Along with a few other consequences , the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia ‘ means my Russian visit is affected . ’ |
| 16 | What was clear from my own research and experience was that all of these ‘ crazes ’ or student ‘ tides ’ , along with a few others , existed side by side in 1988 . |
| 17 | Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish . |
| 18 | After three days slight fungus was observed on the damaged fins , along with a few white spots . |
| 19 | The worst problem is that the combination of silt , moss and leaves , along with a few chippings washed off of flat roof , can cause soakaways to get blocked , thereby reducing the flow at times when it 's needed most . |
| 20 | All the usual commands are accepted , along with a few unique nouns invented by the author — LOUN for LOOK UNDER , LOBE for LOOK BEHIND , etc . |
| 21 | ‘ Everyone falls in love with the Masai , you know , ’ she says as we , the elderly general and the attentive subaltern , along with a few askaris , attend the old lady at her departure . |
| 22 | " I acquired it from him myself , along with a few other incidentals . |
| 23 | Bottles of Coke , Tizer and Pepsi were lined up , along with a few token bottles of Perrier and Evian . |
| 24 | The European Year of Tourism officially ended at a conference in Budapest , at which the HCIMA presented and participated in the workshop on training and management along with a few others , including the President of the Committee for Vocational training in Germany and the Deputy Secretary of the World Tourism Organisation . |
| 25 | All the big names were there : Scudamore , Pipe , Nicholson , Dunwoody , along with a few fortysomethings helping raise money for the Spastics Society , the main beneficiaries of the day . |
| 26 | He delivered the letter , together with a few flowers he 'd nicked from a cemetery . |
| 27 | The market expects a jump in profits from £3.4m to £4.2m pre-tax this year and news of further contract awards , together with a few senior management appointments , is expected soon . |
| 28 | If necessary a small soda-water bottle with cap will do — add 150ml of distilled or purified water together with a few drops of vodka or brandy . |
| 29 | Luckily by then we had enough material — together with a few more worry lines . |
| 30 | Behind the small veneered wooden counter a dozen or so keys dangled from hooks on a numbered board , together with a few dog-eared official-looking proclamations . |