Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Preparation : 15 mins Cooking : none Serves 4 ¼ cucumber 225g ( 8oz ) peeled prawns 225g ( 8oz ) strawberries 1 avocado |juice 1 lemon 75ml ( 5 tbsp ) Waistline cocktail dressing salt and black pepper ½ iceberg lettuce few sprigs of dill to garnish ( optional ) Halve cucumber length-ways and slice thinly . |
2 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
3 | It breeds rapidly — a single female may produce 200–300 offspring in one year — and its mass production and distribution present few difficulties , although it does not thrive everywhere , is subject to disease and predation itself and may sometimes eat the wrong prey . |
4 | And you 're your graph paper few metres long , or you 'd have to cramp this scale up quite a bit bring it closer together . |
5 | AUSTRALIA is now in its seventh week without domestic air services because of a pilots ' pay dispute which has begun to have a serious impact on the economy and has left Bob Hawke 's Labor government few options for reaching a settlement . |
6 | Some of them , sadly , are glib , glossy reports which do the client companies few favours . |