Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few extra [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more competitors we have , the more the basic raw material of popular is presented in bland supermarket-commodity ways , the more the NME , by dint of the few extra degrees of vim , suss and humour it puts into its coverage , will seem different from everything else . |
| 2 | If that means throwing hundreds out of work , or depriving families of a few extra pounds by delaying interest rate cuts , then so be it . |
| 3 | The fitting of a few extra valves solved the problem . |
| 4 | ‘ The group 's name itself has often been the source of some speculation — especially for writers anxious to pad out biographies for a few extra paragraphs — but the name ‘ Smith ’ has always been significant in the Morrissey hagiography . |
| 5 | Afterwards the whole group stayed on for a few extra days . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , actually , this is such a beautiful place , I was thinking of maybe staying on for a few extra days , ’ she invented hastily , knowing her mother would worry herself silly if she knew the half of it — let alone that her car had packed up . |
| 7 | Tito , at the age of 87 , was forced to stay alive for a few extra weeks by the vigorous application of every last trick of the medical trade , including the use of a kidney machine , long after it was apparent that he had reached the end of a pretty long road . |
| 8 | Better to think of it as a big , V8-powered luxury automatic saloon of unique character and style that , at £91,500 , costs about what a Mercedes dealer will take off you for a V12 Mercedes S-class with a few extra bits . |
| 9 | This is how to do it with a few extra explanations to help you understand why you are making the movements — realising why levers move often helps to set the method in the mind . |
| 10 | You should n't have to remove the power supply unit or unplug any cables to slot in a few extra megabytes of RAM . |
| 11 | or if we 're stuck get our heads together and drag in a few extra bodies |
| 12 | There are dozens of them , some with very good outdoors and walking sections and it 's an unusually restrained visitor who leaves without a few extra pounds in the backpack . |
| 13 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |