Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There were some bruised shins and sprained ankles , black eyes and a few cuts and grazes but nothing you would n't get on a rugby field , although a couple of old ladies were taken off home by ambulance with attacks of the vapours . |
| 4 | Here Blake left them , identified himself to the surprised border guards and a few days later was flown to Mosow for a triumphant reunion with the KGB . |
| 5 | A broad drive , bordered with straggling bushes and a few trees , led down to what the map showed as Stoney Piggott 's Road . |
| 6 | He said it 's a couple of cocks and a few leeks chucked in . |
| 7 | Today they have about 27,000 US outlets including department stores , drug stores , computer stores , airport shops and a few bookshops . |
| 8 | He said he mostly cruised now — although he had done several Fastnets and a few Ton-Cups some years ago . |
| 9 | Surgical exploration confirmed pancreatitis with peritoneal petechiae and a few areas of cytosteatonecrosis . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's only five years , nine months and a few days now ! ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 1 A filename can be up to 8 characters long ; 2 A filename may not contain spaces and most punctuation marks , except hyphens , round brackets and a few others ; 3 A filename may be typed in using either lower or upper case letters ; 4 Every file on the same disk must have a different filename ; 5 Every file , wherever it is stored , should have a different filename . |
| 13 | Bryce , Lawler , Ethel , one of the Australians and a few others were standing at the windows gazing out . |
| 14 | It is obvious from these figures that the BDDA in its early days did not represent the deaf and dumb population , but that the Association merely brought together the elite of educated deaf-mutes with some hearing people — mainly missioners and a few others with personal interest in the spiritual and social welfare of the deaf and dumb . |
| 15 | There are now six farmsteads and a few cottages together with a number of modern bungalows . |
| 16 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 17 | A couple of gauze dressings covered the small twin holes either side of my spine , and all that remains today are two little scabs and a few bruises . |
| 18 | Only northeast Scotland , parts of the southern Uplands and a few areas in the southwest receive less than 10kg/S/ha a year , and in the 1970s deposition was higher . |
| 19 | A bone needle , some animal bones and a few sherds of pottery were found here . |
| 20 | Instead , I think in pictorial terms , and my aim in the book was to describe these mental images in words , with the help of familiar analogies and a few diagrams . |
| 21 | At certain points it can reach 10 feet but a few feet is more normal . |
| 22 | Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year . |
| 23 | Once assured of their willingness to adopt the patriot cause the ‘ people ’ turned to their natural , local leaders and disappeared from the stage except for a few significant reappearances and a few protests against ‘ the rich ’ . |
| 24 | In front of him were squat columns of coins and a few cheques . |
| 25 | Jet beads , bone needles and pins and spoons , bronze horse-trappings and a tile of the IXth Legion lay on a stone table with a collection of coins and a few pieces of gold jewellery . |
| 26 | Perhaps she , also , was leaving a few secrets and a few memories behind . |
| 27 | " 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 . |
| 28 | Caim and Whitebeach for whiting , dabs and a few dogs . |
| 29 | After drinks and introductions and a few minutes of jangled smalltalk , as if the three of us were gods or apes or spacemen , Fielding did the bad thing . |
| 30 | We returned with various shell fish , Beadlet Anemones and a few Shannies ( a common rock pool fish ) . |