Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abbey Burnfoot fished well over low water on night tides for a few decent codling . |
| 2 | A new generation of middle level developing countries is facing the difficult transition from being exporters of a few traditional commodities and receiving most external finance in the form of official aid to a varied pattern of trade and production , combined with use of more commerical loans or investment . |
| 3 | Then the thousand or so readers of a few imported fashion magazines ( which it seemed would be prohibited because they contained foreign tobacco advertisements ) momentarily rallied key support from the free speech lobby . |
| 4 | If you look through the components lists of a few recent projects you will no doubt find some that only use common components , but most seem to use at least one or two ‘ specials ’ . |
| 5 | Their approach was to run a business similar to a small City firm of solicitors , maintaining close relationships with a few senior people for whom they would provide a personal service and gain good repeat business . |
| 6 | Alistair hoped to impress Hazel with his growing ease in this milieu ( and managed to exchange wary leers with a few shambling , half-familiar figures — fellow screenplay writers , knowers , seekers ) . |
| 7 | It provides outside parties with a few limited details on the borrower , loan size , term , currency , syndicate leader and participating banks ( see specimen tombstone at the end of this chapter ) . |
| 8 | In the Lugbara case , the ancestors make no bones about their direct administration of the moral code : if you do not toe the line they quickly bring you to your knees with a few sharp , salutary lessons . |
| 9 | Physical chemists like Vernon Harcourt in Oxford were just beginning to study reaction-mechanisms in a few simple cases in the 1860s , and at the same period in France P. M. Berthelot was performing total syntheses , and in Norway C. M. Guldberg and P. Waage discovered the Law of Mass Action governing chemical equilibria . |
| 10 | He remained loyal to Harley until the bitter end , though his own influence in the administration was dwindling , lost all offices except a few local honours at the Hanoverian succession , and more or less retired from active politics to follow his mild interest in antiquarian matters and his somewhat keener passion for the refinement and embellishment of his country seat at Margam . |
| 11 | The service has been a life line to Jeff Lockyer , he now has debts of a few hundred pounds , which compared to a couple of years ago , is an enormous weight off his mind . |
| 12 | By the last years of the period there were indications that anti-militarist ideas were beginning to influence even the policies of a few important statesmen — Turgot , Vergennes , possibly the younger Pitt . |
| 13 | In the course of his fieldwork the anthropologist will observe in considerable detail the day-to-day interactions of a few hundred individuals with many of whom he will eventually become intimately acquainted . |
| 14 | These accounts imply that incidents of violence against women are few and far between ; that they are products of a few sick individuals . |
| 15 | Here housing problems were aggravated by racial discrimination and the operations of a few unscrupulous landlords . |
| 16 | We do n't want to have every last stop pulled out on our behalves in a last , heroic effort to extend our lives for a few more days or weeks or months . |
| 17 | The company which owns the worldwide franchise of the name and trademark is planning an expansion phase — in the best possible taste , of course — and is hoping to get into the pockets of a few well-heeled outside investors . |
| 18 | In actual fact ‘ it was to find its full interpretation in a new concept of matter no longer made of immutable atoms but by relatively impermanent associations of a few fundamental particles , themselves liable to change and transformation ’ . |
| 19 | In Phanerozoic time ( the time which has elapsed since the beginning of the Cambrian ) there have been three such ice ages , separated by intervals of a few hundred million years when the world enjoyed a more equable climate and lacked extensive polar ice caps . |
| 20 | He called for action to tackle the difficulties without ‘ shaming the reputation of this country and infringing the civil liberties of a few helpless people whose only sin has been to seek freedom and our protection ’ . |
| 21 | This gives an image far removed from those bleak , concrete areas with a few hard benches and overflowing litter bins that they will hopefully replace . |
| 22 | There 's a massive crew associated with Barnum and the Apollo chips in a few more . |
| 23 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 24 | After Fawn Hall , a break was arranged before the second act in which , after excursions by a few minor players , North was to appear . |
| 25 | They had little hope of bringing up fresh provisions in these conditions , and if they lengthened their lines by a few more miles they would have no hope at all . |
| 26 | We freeze and drown worms for a few more minutes . |
| 27 | Sadly this latter process , desirable as it might be to stem the antics of a few irresponsible councils , has spilled over into Local Government generally with the unfortunate effect that many responsible authorities have been greatly frustrated in their legitimate desire to provide adequate services in their area . |
| 28 | Exact patterns of change will remain a matter of controversy for historians , as they were for contemporaries , but what emerges from the inadequate farm records and welter of subjective comment by biased and often condescending outside observers is a marked contrast between the fortunes of a few well-organised and prosperous landowners and the general backwardness of their counterparts and tenants . |
| 29 | In the centre would be several lines of trestle tables carrying cages for chicken , ducks and geese with a few tame rabbits . |
| 30 | Treatment is usually a lotion which kills the lice and nits in a few easy applications . |