Example sentences of "[noun pl] and a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A broad drive , bordered with straggling bushes and a few trees , led down to what the map showed as Stoney Piggott 's Road . |
| 4 | The archaeological evidence for this hunting activity over very long periods , from 12,000 to 4000 BC , consists of flint implements and a few bone objects from both open settlement sites and caves . |
| 5 | He said it 's a couple of cocks and a few leeks chucked in . |
| 6 | Today they have about 27,000 US outlets including department stores , drug stores , computer stores , airport shops and a few bookshops . |
| 7 | He said he mostly cruised now — although he had done several Fastnets and a few Ton-Cups some years ago . |
| 8 | Surgical exploration confirmed pancreatitis with peritoneal petechiae and a few areas of cytosteatonecrosis . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's only five years , nine months and a few days now ! ’ |
| 10 | Inside were a couple of building-society account books and a few bank notes . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Bryce , Lawler , Ethel , one of the Australians and a few others were standing at the windows gazing out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There are now six farmsteads and a few cottages together with a number of modern bungalows . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Un the side of the road climbing up the Oa , at Cragabus , a much disturbed cist of three chambers contained unburnt human bones and a few pot sherds . |
| 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 | In addition to the usual inns and shops , professional residences and a few town houses belonging to the local nobility and gentry , it contained two barracks , county courts , a prison , a workhouse , a hospital and a museum . |
| 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 | There were flowers and vegetables and a few fruit trees . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | In front of him were squat columns of coins and a few cheques . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Perhaps she , also , was leaving a few secrets and a few memories behind . |
| 28 | " 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 . |
| 29 | Caim and Whitebeach for whiting , dabs and a few dogs . |
| 30 | There was a rock-strewn plateau where cows with bells and a few sheep were grazing peacefully . |