Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | WARRENDER fitness instructor , gives Citizen readers a few tips on how to trim up for the summer . |
| 2 | He can see car headlights a few hundred feet below . |
| 3 | Such material was part of most introductory courses in British geography degree programmes a few decades ago — using texts such as Forde ( 1934 ) — but today the topic is much less studied , though there are notable exceptions such as Brookfield 's collaborative work with anthropologists in Melanesia ( Brookfield and Brown , 1963 ) and Watts 's ( 1983 ) detailed study of northern Nigeria . |
| 4 | The Sussex campus , with its tastefully harmonized buildings in the modernist-Palladian style , arranged in elegant perspective at the foot of the South Downs a few miles outside Brighton , was much admired by architects , but had a somewhat disorienting effect on the young people who came to study there . |
| 5 | It 's not hard to identify some voluntary organisations which were shoe string operations a few years ago but are now lumbering their employees in the hundreds . |
| 6 | About 400 were broken — but John said : ‘ The survivors are worth at least £100 each and the two demo tapes a few thousand . ’ |
| 7 | Could these be used to replace some other fattier meals a few times a week ? |
| 8 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 9 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 10 | Although in early discussions surrounding enterprise zones a few authorities were unable to reach formal agreement with the government , most Labour authorities , with varying degrees of enthusiasm , eventually sought designation . |
| 11 | ‘ Anti-depressant pills a few years earlier had a disastrous effect on me : I was allergic to them . |
| 12 | But so he should , for project coordinator at Blackfriars , with partner travelled to Germany to represent Great Britain in the European Bridge Championships a few days later in March . |
| 13 | The screws that they used in the workshop came in plastic bags a few inches square . |
| 14 | As it happened I had heard a very similar point being put to a group of Belfast managers from top insurance companies a few days previously . |
| 15 | For her land now lay underneath a plantation of banana trees a few hundred yards down the road from a bricked-up mosque . |
| 16 | As I said , the draft regulations impose on union citizens a few minor procedural changes from those we require of our own citizens . |
| 17 | Cloistered in converted farm buildings a few miles from York … craftsmen breathe new life into Fairford 's medieval glass . |
| 18 | Perhaps the gearbox to transfer box oil seal is faulty , but when I check the oil levels a few weeks after filling to the correct level a small amount is missing from the main box , a much greater amount from the transfer box and the overdrive is full or near full , ? |
| 19 | Geoff , an old fashioned sort of polliss , retired on health grounds a few years back and we still have n't bought him a pint . |
| 20 | But it has been tried : Birmingham City Council ran billboard advertisements a few years ago imaginatively showing what the SSD actually did , how it positively affected old people , young people , and everyone in between . |
| 21 | After release the pigeon circles a few times around the release site for a few minutes and then flies off , usually in the approximate direction of its home loft . |
| 22 | Er er er market forces everywhere er you you 'll see now it 's all for the market forces and if you have market forces a few on the top and all the rest at the bottom . |