Example sentences of "[noun pl] with a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pisco sour proved to be a local brandy whisked up with white of egg and the juice of fresh limes with a few drops of angostura bitters lying like dark bloodstains on the white bed of foam . |
| 2 | KIDS with a few bob in their piggy banks can help Mum and Dad collect extra interest on the family 's savings . |
| 3 | This alone may well explain the presence of walled areas with a few buildings within , as at Margidunum . |
| 4 | Boats were moored to the main bank , mostly small powerboats with a few dinghies . |
| 5 | Most of these rural craftsmen were still part-time farmers or cottagers with a few acres of land and rights on the commons and wastes . |
| 6 | Most of the mileage was on tarmac roads with a few miles cross country and admittedly , I did not have to use low ratio at any time . |
| 7 | If you have dry skin , you may wish to mix the essences with a few teaspoonfuls of vegetable oil ; that is , if you do not mind cleaning a greasy bath afterwards ! |
| 8 | Hard boil your eggs with a few drops of pink dye or coffee grains to make them skin-coloured . |
| 9 | Comparisons with published data for central Atlantic islands are restricted to samples of common rock types , mainly transitional basalts , alkali basalts and basanites with a few nephelinites . |
| 10 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
| 11 | The past year has been a rollercoaster one for the royals with a few highs followed by lots of depressing lows . |
| 12 | There 's a couple of handouts here which I 'm not gon na go into , but there again somebody might think about when you 're running group training and there 's some , there 's some I du n no er points with a few heading samples , so I 'm gon na take one and pass them on take one pass them on which I really no , no and there 's one over there So you 've got involving trainees we 've done humour we 've touched upon , brainstorming we 've done before . |
| 13 | Breeding bird species of these largely intertidal habitats are , not surprisingly , few , although some , particularly Redshank and Meadow Pipit , nest on the drier parts of the saltings with a few Lapwings. – sizeable gull and tern colony exists on islands in Chichester Harbour . |
| 14 | Through established links with a few Oxford Colleges , he visited Oxford annually during the war and offered appointments as WEA full-time tutors to several outstanding young women graduates . |
| 15 | The children are left out on the plains with a few goats from a very young age . |
| 16 | Keep the party room fairly dark and decorated with ghostly-like pictures , broomsticks with a few twigs attached for the children to practise flying on , pictures of black cats and so on . |
| 17 | ‘ As a player , it 's certainly more gruelling doing my own material than Michael 's , because his is mainly rhythm parts with a few solos . |