Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Country Living : A few hours or a few weeks before the mast With air like this , it 's a sin not to get out into it . |
| 2 | A corporation may get into a certain line of business as a short-term objective simply in order to generate cash-flow , a customer base or a better price-earnings ratio in order to move on to something quite different . |
| 3 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 4 | ‘ The waste and desert appearance is partly caused by the vast extent of the common lands belonging to the towns and villages , the system of management of which is ruinous in the extreme , and the finest districts , capable of enriching the proprietors and the country at large , are abandoned to , and only serve as pasture for goats , sheep or a few asses . ’ |
| 5 | Add a cinnamon stick or a few slices of fresh root ginger , then simmer for a few minutes — check it has a good flavour , then remove the spices and add 450g/1lb chopped rhubarb . |
| 6 | And the E I and the J and the P are if you like sort of part of the bodywork which decides whether you 're a sports car or a heavy goods |
| 7 | So if you kept these same ratios same fractions even if you got ten pound or a hundred pounds or ten pence it would still look like that . |
| 8 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 9 | Curricular novelties continued : the Headmaster , himself a Classicist , reported on Speech Day : we have made the experiment of allowing boys in the 5th to choose their own work for two hours a week , with the interesting result that a dozen boys have chosen to do Greek . " |
| 10 | Better ten books in good condition than a hundred cripples . |
| 11 | There was also a note to the effect that a suitable premises , with stock , had been offered at a reasonable price , in a similar location to her present premises . |
| 12 | Proliferation of such schemes will make it essential both to try to avoid consumer confusion , and also to ensure that gaps and overlap are guarded against , but they are all to be welcomed as a recognition that a proper complaints and redress system is necessary if justice is to be done . |
| 13 | He knew Duke Ellington , Errol Garner and Louis Armstrong , and singers such as Fats Waller , Ella Fitzgerald , Nellie Lutcher , Vera Lynn , Bing Crosby and a dozen others . |
| 14 | A leather wallet lay open with its contents exposed and itemised : business cards , driving licence , cheque book , banker 's card and a few stamps . |
| 15 | Near one of the posts , a hammer and a few nails had been left behind . |
| 16 | We bought one ( a mistake , we should have got two ) to supplement an old ladle-handle type of thing dug out from my past , and a hammer and a few pegs to be on the safe side . |
| 17 | I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels . |
| 18 | The Republic of Maldives ( called the Maldive Islands until 1969 ) has an executive President elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage , a Cabinet appointed and presided over by the President and a 48-member Citizens ' Assembly ( Majilis ) , 40 of whose members are elected for five years and the remaining eight appointed by the President . |
| 19 | She fumbled with her purse and a few seconds later she held a lighter shakily to the end of a cigarette and puffed greedily . |
| 20 | Even the critic Arthur Jerome Eddy , who was the author of the first English book on Cubism and a cautious supporter of the movement , was able to write : ‘ In short Picasso and a few followers have reached a degree of abstraction in the suppression of the real and the particular that their paintings represent the same degree of emotion as the demonstration of a difficult geometrical proposition . ’ |
| 21 | There were some bruised shins and sprained ankles , black eyes and a few cuts and grazes but nothing you would n't get on a rugby field , although a couple of old ladies were taken off home by ambulance with attacks of the vapours . |
| 22 | They are managed by a joint group which includes the consultant , a principal psychologist and a social services specialist advisor . |
| 23 | Pentecostal minister the Rev Colin Hill and a dozen members of his nearby Kemble Street Elim Church congregation asked more than 100 people going to the show to turn back . |
| 24 | Rachel found herself following him into the social club and a few minutes later when they were both seated with their drinks in the same window-seat where they had sat before she said , ‘ So what 's your connection with Conway House ? ’ |
| 25 | Here Blake left them , identified himself to the surprised border guards and a few days later was flown to Mosow for a triumphant reunion with the KGB . |
| 26 | A broad drive , bordered with straggling bushes and a few trees , led down to what the map showed as Stoney Piggott 's Road . |
| 27 | He said it 's a couple of cocks and a few leeks chucked in . |
| 28 | Richard and a few followers escaped downstream to Geoffrey de Rancon 's castle at Taillebourg while the bulk of his troops were driven back into the cathedral , where they held out for a few days . |
| 29 | B510 BCK ) contained , amongst other things , a Status Series 4000 bass serial no. 015 , a black Westone Thunder fretless , a Fender Stage 185 amp with the Channel 1 midrange pot snapped off , an Orange 4x12 cab , a Peavey MkIV bass amp , a new-style Fender 4x12 cab , a Rhodes electric piano , a Hammond X5 organ , a Solton combined Leslie cabinet and amplifier , various Sonor drums , a pair of Bose 402 PA speakers and a custom-built effects board containing an old Tube Screamer , a CE2 , a Cry Baby , an Ibanez Phaser , an orange ‘ mute ’ box and a Korg chromatic tuner . |
| 30 | Long before dawn , I was propped on an elbow , with a warming mug of tea and a few verses of Romans . |