Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] a few [noun] " 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 | The Persons who inhabit the Cottages are chiefly poor Labouring People , who are induced to seek Habitations in the Forest for the Advantages of living Rent free , and having the Benefit of Pasturage for a Cow or a few Sheep , and of keeping Pigs in the Woods ; but many Encroachments have been made by People of Substance . |
3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | A leather wallet lay open with its contents exposed and itemised : business cards , driving licence , cheque book , banker 's card and a few stamps . |
7 | Near one of the posts , a hammer and a few nails had been left behind . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels . |
10 | She fumbled with her purse and a few seconds later she held a lighter shakily to the end of a cigarette and puffed greedily . |
11 | 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 . ’ |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Burnham boat anglers enjoyed good sport with cod and a few dogfish and rays . |
14 | 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 ? ’ |
15 | 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 . |
16 | A broad drive , bordered with straggling bushes and a few trees , led down to what the map showed as Stoney Piggott 's Road . |
17 | The archaeological evidence for this hunting activity over very long periods , from 12,000 to 4000 BC , consists of flint implements and a few bone objects from both open settlement sites and caves . |
18 | He said it 's a couple of cocks and a few leeks chucked in . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Long before dawn , I was propped on an elbow , with a warming mug of tea and a few verses of Romans . |
21 | The first real indication of the mood of the new House came on Wednesday , 3 June 1992 , the day after the Danish ‘ no ’ vote and a few hours after the prime minister had told Parliament that he intended nevertheless to press ahead with the bill ratifying the Maastricht Treaty . |
22 | In A.D. 324 Constantine moved his capital to Byzantium and a few years later the Empire was divided into two parts , eastern and western . |
23 | Today they have about 27,000 US outlets including department stores , drug stores , computer stores , airport shops and a few bookshops . |
24 | The only luxuries she has had are a holiday in America , a new car and a few home improvements . |
25 | He said he mostly cruised now — although he had done several Fastnets and a few Ton-Cups some years ago . |
26 | The moralistic female I was particularly thinking of was George Eliot , because Nietzsche , the German writer , actually complained that she was a particularly moralistic female , but I was also thinking of people like Mrs Henry Wood and Amy Le Fevre and a few others like that . |
27 | USA hooker Tony Flay had to be replaced following an ugly facial cut and a few minutes later replacement hooker Pat Johnson had his nose broken by a punch . |
28 | There 's a brand new Jag and a few bits of plant up there that need to be repossessed as quickly as possible . |
29 | Surgical exploration confirmed pancreatitis with peritoneal petechiae and a few areas of cytosteatonecrosis . |
30 | ‘ It 's only five years , nine months and a few days now ! ’ |