Example sentences of "[conj] a few [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe , we wondered , there are derelict areas , or a few jigsaw puzzle pieces , on the edge of our own city , or within its boundaries which , with a little compromise and a lot of imagination … ? |
| 2 | The salient fact is that what is uniquely on offer at these parties is not all-night dancing or a few boutique drugs , but fantasy-sensation itself : the orgiastic effect of thousands of people mainlining heavy acid rock at the level of total sound . |
| 3 | Conversely , where the exothermicity of the association is small ( comparable to , or a few times kT , Figure 4B ) , then there is much residual motion in the associated state , and the adverse entropy of the association is only a fraction of the formal loss in entropy corresponding to the formation of a rigid complex . |
| 4 | The A.896 road through the pass remains narrow with passing places , although a few parking spaces have been cut out of the verges to accommodate the many car owners who come to walk . |
| 5 | One senses that a few bowling attacks are likely to feel the frustration of Smith as he works out his disappointment at missing the latter stages of the World Cup . |
| 6 | Interviewees reported that a few service users had refused to allow their names to be placed on a mental health database . |
| 7 | ‘ And here I was , thinking that a few hours leave was on the cards . ’ |
| 8 | Of course , I am not suggesting that women should give in to biology ( perish the thought ) , but that PMS is not quite the pathological state that a few health experts would appear to be suggesting . |
| 9 | In fact over the 1950s the Tories never won as much as half of the popular vote , and were never more than a few percentage points ahead of Labour — percentage points which are nonetheless crucial within the British electoral system . |
| 10 | The AX3 Microlight is powered by a 500 cc 2-stroke engine and seems to be no more than a few metal poles covered with canvass . |
| 11 | Since a typical Enumeration District contains about 200 households , a 10% sample of a single ED is unreliable , and the 10% data should not be used for areas smaller than a few Enumeration Districts ( Cole 1993 ) . |
| 12 | But there are more than a few teething problems . |
| 13 | Many of the fish are of specimen size , too , with more than a few record breakers . |
| 14 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The window I am sitting beside overlooks the back garden , where there is a perpetually erected bonfire , old cuttings , window sashes and a few wardrobe doors . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A fortuitous meeting and a few phone calls seem to have turned up Bradley 's majestic depiction . |
| 19 | Her vain escape bid lasted less than 60ft and a few nightmare seconds , before she crashed the white Isuzu van into a ditch in a haze of blood and pain . |
| 20 | The Hotel Des Etrangers is centrally located about 250 yards from the Piazzo Colombo and a few minutes walk from the Via Matteotti . |
| 21 | He could see grass , and a long dug strip — vegetables , too ? — and a few fruit trees . |
| 22 | There were flowers and vegetables and a few fruit trees . |
| 23 | Some cattle are reared on permanent pasture on the lower slopes and a few fodder crops of grass , oats and potatoes are grown in the lower valleys . |
| 24 | The decision to endorse Loblaws ' ‘ green ’ products was made by Isaacs and a few board members . |
| 25 | Back to that poky little shop , livin' off the takin 's of penny bags of bullseyes and a few pence worth of paraffin oil ! ’ |
| 26 | Getting these filled was like a military operation , the grown-ups with large baskets of food , children clutching buckets and spades , bottles of lemonade and a few pence pocket money to buy ice cream and other seaside delights . |
| 27 | Un the side of the road climbing up the Oa , at Cragabus , a much disturbed cist of three chambers contained unburnt human bones and a few pot sherds . |
| 28 | Home Office Ministers fiddled while tyres and a few petrol bombs burned . |
| 29 | The only luxuries she has had are a holiday in America , a new car and a few home improvements . |
| 30 | The speech of the hon. Member for Nottingham , North ( Mr. Allen ) smelt of a weekend with the thesaurus and a few reference books , and was made without reference to what had preceded it . |