Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [coord] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she , also , was leaving a few secrets and a few memories behind . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If , however , it 's absorbed by osmosis through the skin , it simply paralyses in a death-like state for anything between a few hours and a few days , depending on the dosage . |
| 4 | There were also some comments about homosexual authors and a few feeble attempts to refute allegations about Labour authorities — not that Labour authorities had not promoted homosexuality , but that only a few had and they had not spent millions of pounds doing it . |
| 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 | In their present mood people would think nothing of mortgaging themselves for years ahead in order to acquire some trifling luxury like a jar of brandied peaches or a few leaves of tobacco . |
| 7 | ‘ It has got to a stage where I am not looking ahead to what might happen in a few weeks or a few months . |
| 8 | At present , however , there is a student gap , which may last for a few weeks or a few months , separating the exemptions from the day on which a person enrols on a full-time course of education . |
| 9 | Further out , in the fashionable village-suburb of Breasbrough , civic spirits were high at a New Year 's Eve party , where left-wing councillors , left-wing teachers , left-wing journalists , left-wing social workers and a few agnostic entrepreneurs raised their glasses and looked forward to the exhilarating confrontation of the approaching steel strike : they were high on a recent freak by-election in the neighbourhood which had reversed the national trend to the Right and given , in their own view , a renewed popular blessing to their defiant , daring programme of high social expenditure . |
| 10 | There would be a few drinks , some canapes and a few staff who were free and willing to do it on overtime . |
| 11 | They integrated with the Picts , the ‘ painted men ’ , finally absorbing them and their culture completely , leaving behind only robbed brochs , broken hill-forts and a few stone carvings as evidence of the Picts ' passing . |
| 12 | Asked who will be the principal purchasers at the sale , he pointed to ‘ private collectors , dealers , some middlemen and a few museums . |
| 13 | Well it was the first hundred houses that were built in the New Town and it housed a lot of building trade workers , a lot of engineers and a lot of archi well a lot , a few architects and a few engineers and the rest were building trade workers or of some sort or another , and a few British Hydro |
| 14 | One three-month-old baby managed to talk its parents into sending Santa a letter asking for some clothes and a few bits for the cot . |
| 15 | It was n't much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city . |
| 16 | In addition to the usual inns and shops , professional residences and a few town houses belonging to the local nobility and gentry , it contained two barracks , county courts , a prison , a workhouse , a hospital and a museum . |
| 17 | During the year , SCDI hosted many such meetings and a few of our guests were The number of visitors to the Scottish Council from overseas continued at a high level . |
| 18 | During the year , SCDI hosted many such meetings and a few of our guests were The number of visitors to the Scottish Council from overseas continued at a high level . |
| 19 | The rails and overhead wires were joined at Selby Road , but there was a marked contrast between the surroundings ; from the Goat House Bridge to Selby Road , there was single track with one passing loop in a narrow road between three storey terraced houses and a few converted to shops , between the over-bridge and the boundary . |
| 20 | " A small part , " 90 entire pennies and a few fragments , was recovered by the Scottish Exchequer and were mostly from the reign of Eadgar with others from Athelstan , Edmund , Eodred and Eadwig . |
| 21 | At certain points it can reach 10 feet but a few feet is more normal . |
| 22 | There are now six farmsteads and a few cottages together with a number of modern bungalows . |
| 23 | In the New Forest the most important is common of pasture , which enables about 350 commoners to depasture some 3,000 ponies , 2,000 cattle and a few sheep on about 4,500 acres of open forest throughout the year . |
| 24 | We started off just looking for a few cuddly toys and a few pounds to send them across to the folk in Roumania because we were all very touched by the need of the children there . |
| 25 | We could see the army post now and the shuffling sentries and a few jeeps passing in and out of the gate . |
| 26 | One tank contains six Shannies and a few anemones . |
| 27 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 28 | It is they who hold dialogue with establishment spokesmen , sitting side by side with white experts and a few Asian men on the ‘ problems ’ and ‘ needs ’ of Asian women . |
| 29 | However , there is little else authentically recorded , a strange omission inasmuch as these galleries and a few over the West Yorkshire border are indigenous to this area . |
| 30 | The back of the house faces south , an avenue of giant elms and a few old oaks lay over that way . |