Example sentences of "[noun pl] with a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pisco sour proved to be a local brandy whisked up with white of egg and the juice of fresh limes with a few drops of angostura bitters lying like dark bloodstains on the white bed of foam . |
| 2 | KIDS with a few bob in their piggy banks can help Mum and Dad collect extra interest on the family 's savings . |
| 3 | Their approach was to run a business similar to a small City firm of solicitors , maintaining close relationships with a few senior people for whom they would provide a personal service and gain good repeat business . |
| 4 | Alistair hoped to impress Hazel with his growing ease in this milieu ( and managed to exchange wary leers with a few shambling , half-familiar figures — fellow screenplay writers , knowers , seekers ) . |
| 5 | It provides outside parties with a few limited details on the borrower , loan size , term , currency , syndicate leader and participating banks ( see specimen tombstone at the end of this chapter ) . |
| 6 | In the Lugbara case , the ancestors make no bones about their direct administration of the moral code : if you do not toe the line they quickly bring you to your knees with a few sharp , salutary lessons . |
| 7 | Releasing a collection of radio sessions with a few previously unavailable songs in perfect timing for Christmas does appear to be begging for critical crucifixion . |
| 8 | This gives an image far removed from those bleak , concrete areas with a few hard benches and overflowing litter bins that they will hopefully replace . |
| 9 | This alone may well explain the presence of walled areas with a few buildings within , as at Margidunum . |
| 10 | Boats were moored to the main bank , mostly small powerboats with a few dinghies . |
| 11 | Most of these rural craftsmen were still part-time farmers or cottagers with a few acres of land and rights on the commons and wastes . |
| 12 | ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ was then sometimes obliged to bring them to their senses with a few slaps about the face . |
| 13 | In the centre would be several lines of trestle tables carrying cages for chicken , ducks and geese with a few tame rabbits . |
| 14 | It consists mostly of plain four-storey brick warehouses with a few more ornate buildings among them . |
| 15 | Alan 's already had initial discussions with a few of us and with Graham about what the next stage should be erm but that 's really not been finalized yet . |
| 16 | In cases around the room lie the collected fragmentary treasures of human ancestry , mostly skulls , jaws and teeth with a few partial limb bones . |
| 17 | On Friday we 're playing for a couple of hours with a few suprise guests one had considerably more hair than the rest of the band put together . |
| 18 | Most of the mileage was on tarmac roads with a few miles cross country and admittedly , I did not have to use low ratio at any time . |
| 19 | Composed by a 17-year-old , the work was underplayed at times with a few unfortunate slips from the horns adding to a certain lack of direction . |
| 20 | If you have dry skin , you may wish to mix the essences with a few teaspoonfuls of vegetable oil ; that is , if you do not mind cleaning a greasy bath afterwards ! |
| 21 | Hard boil your eggs with a few drops of pink dye or coffee grains to make them skin-coloured . |
| 22 | Comparisons with published data for central Atlantic islands are restricted to samples of common rock types , mainly transitional basalts , alkali basalts and basanites with a few nephelinites . |
| 23 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
| 24 | Like Jane , Flora had the gift of demolishing characters with a few swift shafts , but at the same time with wit and good humour . |
| 25 | The past year has been a rollercoaster one for the royals with a few highs followed by lots of depressing lows . |
| 26 | None of them ever enlivened maths lessons with a few handy hints about alternative sexuality . |
| 27 | There 's a couple of handouts here which I 'm not gon na go into , but there again somebody might think about when you 're running group training and there 's some , there 's some I du n no er points with a few heading samples , so I 'm gon na take one and pass them on take one pass them on which I really no , no and there 's one over there So you 've got involving trainees we 've done humour we 've touched upon , brainstorming we 've done before . |
| 28 | Breeding bird species of these largely intertidal habitats are , not surprisingly , few , although some , particularly Redshank and Meadow Pipit , nest on the drier parts of the saltings with a few Lapwings. – sizeable gull and tern colony exists on islands in Chichester Harbour . |
| 29 | Through established links with a few Oxford Colleges , he visited Oxford annually during the war and offered appointments as WEA full-time tutors to several outstanding young women graduates . |
| 30 | He wrote letters to her , funny ones with a few clumsy sentences about missing her . |