Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1800 the overseers , rate books indicate a few changes in the personnel living down Pig Street . |
| 2 | Some products and places provide a few exceptions to this pattern , as we shall discover in the next chapter , and there were considerable , if patchy and delayed , efforts towards ‘ re-industrialization ’ ( Chapter 10 ) , which created the estimated increase of manufacturing employment across all regions of the North from 1987 to 1989 , averaging 1.4 per cent , probably arrested by 1990 . |
| 3 | Having taken better care of it than Besty , or more accurately Besty 's hangers on , he invested some of it in a Sydney sports shop a few months ago , which he 'll run when he retires . |
| 4 | Situated on the edge of the pedestrian zone , is the friendly Hotel Haymon , consisting of two Tyrolean chalet style buildings set a few yards apart . |
| 5 | Short mating consortships last a few days . |
| 6 | The biographical sources mention a few facts and anecdotes attributable to this period , among them the fact that toward the end of his life he was afflicted with ophthalmia and became nearly or totally blind . |
| 7 | Decent people moved out if they could , and the born-squalid moved in : the swamp of the slums spread a few years behind the speculative builder everywhere . |
| 8 | As yet unsigned , Sunflowers need a few months to diet and define their direction . |
| 9 | Most newspapers have a few pages of features , and that 's another kind of readership . |
| 10 | Both cases come a few weeks after a 12-year-old American boy , Gregory Kingsley , ‘ divorced ’ his parents in a court action in Florida . |
| 11 | She holds clinics in the areas in and around Cape Town — the shanty towns begin a few miles outside the city and the houses improve markedly the nearer the centre you get — and Rose believes that the fruits of her success will start to become evident in two or three years . |
| 12 | A couple of boy-soldiers spend a few moments admiring Anastasia . |