Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] with a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | It consists mostly of plain four-storey brick warehouses with a few more ornate buildings among them . |
| 2 | Lij Yasu was arrested four days later near the Sandfords ' farm ; he had been wandering in the Muger valley with a few retainers , hungry and terrified . |
| 3 | He had been running his own freelance investment fund with a few billion yen in assets . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | The 80R is essentially a twin channel , 80 watt amplifier with a few departures from the norm that are all its own . |
| 6 | It was told to ‘ verify ’ the Angolan peace process with a few hundred unarmed observers , and given neither the instructions nor the resources to disarm the fighters . |
| 7 | In local studies , for instance , there is a local church , particularly if it is a fairly old village church with a few hundred years of history behind it . |
| 8 | Debit the Curbash Compensation Fund with a few more milliemes . ’ |
| 9 | George 's contrib to the upcoming ‘ Red Hot And Dance ’ album is a plonking , KC And The Sunshine Band pastiche with a few hooks but nothing else . |
| 10 | Legend has it that the lake was formed by the tears of a love torn nymph , and at the end of a luminous day , when the sun turns everything to delicate hues , even the sceptical are ready to admit they have seen the Trasimeno nymph — adding to the water level with a few tears more . |
| 11 | None of them ever enlivened maths lessons with a few handy hints about alternative sexuality . |
| 12 | The night raids with a few sporadic bangs and our own guns , and twice a silver Zeppelin picked out by a search light , seemed fun — because we all came downstairs and stayed up late and were n't expected to be bright at school next morning . |
| 13 | If you know someone who has just passed a very difficult music exam , for instance , you could celebrate their victory by decorating some of their exam piece with a few pressed flowers before framing it and giving it . |
| 14 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 15 | A bog farmer with a few sickly cows . |
| 16 | Fill an empty plastic bottle with a few lentils . |
| 17 | Microworm are best cultured in small plastic containers such as well washed half pound margarine tubs with a few small holes pierced into the lid . |
| 18 | And it says much that you could make a racer out of the RS road car with a few hours notice . |
| 19 | Releasing a collection of radio sessions with a few previously unavailable songs in perfect timing for Christmas does appear to be begging for critical crucifixion . |
| 20 | The ghost plot — Swayze gets killed , and before he can go off to heaven he has to save his girlfriend Demi Moore from the bad guys — is really just a gimmick , there to dress up the standard Swayze package with a few special effects and an impossibly sentimental ending . |
| 21 | The sections are then zero bonded with epoxy as described in Section 4.4.2 , to form a double glass mount with a few millimetres of rock sandwiched between . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He just sat for a while in a sort of communal TV room with a few old loons . |
| 24 | Highgate Cemetery displays crossed bats with a broken wicket , as well as a stone piano with a few bars of one of Puccini 's operas . |
| 25 | Gastric haemorrhagic damage was induced by oral administration of indomethacin ( Sigma Chemical Co , St Louis , MO ) at a dose of 20 mg/kg , suspended in 0.5% carboxymethylcellulose solution with a few drops of tween 80 in a volume of 0.5 ml/100 g body weight . |