Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [art] few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , their own difficult first album is one extra twist of its theme , three songs and a few warped guitars overdubs short of a classic which by local debutants ' terms is almost an unprecedented if also an easy success . |
| 2 | It is a lyre-horned breed which was originally white with red muzzle and ears and a few red freckles on the sides , but the use of Ayrshire bulls during the nineteenth century increased the area of red in the coat and in the 1970s the use of NRF bulls darkened the colour cline to the brindle or red lineback of today . |
| 3 | After you 've loaded your network drivers ( which are memory hungry ) , ANSI.SYS , SMARTDRV.SYS , RAMDRV.SYS , MOUSE.COM , EGA.SYS , EMM386.EXE , CD ROM drivers , Sound card drivers and a few other bits and bobs , not to mention your memory resident anti-virus software , you can find yourself getting the ‘ not enough memory to run xxxxxx.exe ’ rather more often than you 'd like . |
| 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 | So , give or take a couple of centuries and a few hundred light years , I 'm home . |
| 6 | In the oceans , too , as we saw , the turnover of life can be prodigious , but except in the mangroves and a few other places there are no big and permanent plants ; the only complex , permanent living architecture in the oceans is provided by the coral reefs . |
| 7 | Therefore , the nine bogie cars and a few four wheelers were transferred to Sutton and worked the Mitcham line from there . |
| 8 | Telford Avenue was now practically cleared of ex-L.C.C. cars and the few remaining spaces there were filled by ex-Walthamstow cars , contemporary with the ex-Croydon E/1s and closely similar to them . |
| 9 | They told her nothing , paperbacks and hardbacks mixed indiscriminately , a wide variety of titles and subjects and a few back editions of The Writers ' and Artists ' Yearbook . |
| 10 | Each team had a couple of scoring opportunities and a few short corners but the game dragged on to a scoreless draw . |
| 11 | The back of the house faces south , an avenue of giant elms and a few old oaks lay over that way . |
| 12 | And that 's the strongest way of all of making timbers and looking at medieval pictures and the few medieval survivors , that 's the way it was done . |
| 13 | The Mercedes was equipped with an electric sunroof , automatic transmission , anti-lock brakes and a few more extras that swelled the price by over £4,000 . |
| 14 | The British National Health Service provides free urgent medical care for all residents of European Community countries and a few other countries with whom the UK has reciprocal medical agreements . |
| 15 | Down on the dark grey beach there was a collection of glaucous gulls and a few purple sandpipers , and then to my delight a snow white ivory gull flew in and settled on the shingle , giving me the chance to stalk and photograph one of the world 's rarer gulls . |
| 16 | Refuse tips are frequented by large numbers of gulls and the few wintering Lesser Black-backed Gulls are usually found at these sites , often inland . |
| 17 | He tried punch bread with sloppy groundbait for small roach , but when he changed to double squatt he added five skimmers and a few small perch . |
| 18 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 19 | During the sixteenth century Myddle was essentially a society consisting of numerous smallholders and a few large farmers , but from the second half of Elizabeth 's reign onwards poor immigrants came into the parish in search of labouring work and the opportunity to erect a cottage in the woods or on the manorial wastes . |
| 20 | A single spoonful of Belladonna LM1 took effect within 2 or 3 minutes and a few more doses during the day cleared the state . |
| 21 | Use of the indoor swimming-pool , sauna , solarium and fitness room is included and there 's also a hotel bar , a lounge , playroom , table-tennis , pool & billiards and a few free bicycles . |
| 22 | The lovely Accolade trees , having waited two weeks with deep rose-red buds and a few open flowers , burst into copious rows of sumptuous semi-double flowers of pure icing-sugar pink . |
| 23 | Recently the castle remains , neglected for centuries and largely hidden , have been excavated to expose some solid stonework foundations and a few ancient arches . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Her parents had never really lived anywhere : they had inhabited studios and cottages and areas of other people 's houses and spent all their leisure time , which had been considerable , in pubs with other flamboyant artists and a few bitter intellectuals who were endlessly aggrieved at the turn the world was taking . |
| 26 | One interesting side effect of the fire in Ankh-Morpork concerns the inn-sewer-ants policy , which left the city through the ravaged roof of the Broken Drum , was wafted high into the discworld 's atmosphere on the ensuing thermal , and came to earth several days and a few thousand miles away on an uloruaha bush in the beTrobi islands . |
| 27 | Barry Silk had killed more terrorists and a few other criminals in his old hometown of Belfast than anybody , and that included IRA , Loyalists — even the British Army — would ever know . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ( And as Lucy was shuffling tensely and waiting for someone to respond , Joe Lucas was in his hotel room and trying to prise the cap off a fresh bottle of painkillers that he 'd picked up , along with some disposable razors and a few other essentials , from a late-opening pharmacy on Piccadilly . |
| 30 | By now it was the rush hour and he was squeezed into the corner of a carriage by a family of Swedish tourists who talked loudly and without vowels and continuously trafficked maps and guidebooks across him , so there was no chance of getting a look at the diaries or the few folded sheets of paper that were wedged between them . |