Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] of a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the script departments of a few studios , too many producers have taken lazy routes to their scripts . |
| 2 | ‘ People get nervous because one character in the film calls women bitches , but that 's a reflection of the mind set of a few young black men in America right now . |
| 3 | ‘ PEOPLE GET NERVOUS BECAUSE ONE CHARACTER IN THE FILM CALLS WOMEN BITCHES , BUT THAT 'S A REFLECTION OF THE MIND SET OF A FEW YOUNG BLACK MEN IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW . ’ |
| 4 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 5 | The boys could see that in reception classes , as in the all-in village school of a few generations ago , only one teacher taught all subjects to children between twelve and sixteen . |
| 6 | That makes it dramatically far less effective than on some previous recordings , but the central anthem is beautifully done , and it is good too to have the three superb Funeral Sentence anthems of a few years earlier . |
| 7 | It is probably significant that our own body size of a few feet is roughly in the middle of the range of sizes we can imagine . |
| 8 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 9 | Most remind me of the Sinclair Spectrum games of a few years ago , but that last one is a typical Japanese ‘ happy jumpy scrolly ’ game — weird , but compulsive . |
| 10 | There are a few other initiatives that , for a capital sum of a few million pounds , hold the prospect of bringing forward such a radical transformation of the immediate circumstances of poorer people , and the extent to which they control their own lives . |
| 11 | The Danuese allowed to participate were few in number and rigorously selected , mostly the same ‘ chiefs ’ who had voted for assimilation into the malai republic in the show referendum of a few weeks back . |
| 12 | And the speech was indeed a frank catalogue of the state of the personal computer business today : revenues down 14% , Apple Computer Inc , IBM and DEC contemplating low margins and sinking market share , the astronomical cost of developing a new package , the failure of PCs to penetrate much beyond word processing and spreadsheets , the monopoly lock of a few software houses on the marketplace and engineering 's inability to develop an intuitive box , all conspiring to dissuade any sensible PC guy from putting any more money into research and development . |
| 13 | The ear tufts of a few species do not represent true ears . |
| 14 | In view of the value placed upon health and survival universally , the health benefits of a few , well spaced children , when taught in the context of fertility regulation and wasteful reproductive patterns , represent a primary motive for family planning . |
| 15 | A quantity of dance-music for it is preserved , imperfectly , in the so-called ‘ Walsingham Consort Books ’ of approximately the same date , and the combination is depicted accompanying the wedding masque in the Henry Unton memorial painting of a few years later . |
| 16 | It was in fact somewhat of a surprise to see cadet editions of a few of the Hornblower novels published for readers in the early and mid-teens , since neither Forester 's open , smooth narrative style nor his approach to sex and violence could be considered exacting or improper where young readers were concerned . |
| 17 | With a typical load resistance of a few kΟ , the magnitude of the signal voltage gain is around 100 . |
| 18 | The trigger effect of a few schools opting out could lead to an avalanche of applications . |
| 19 | The decision to cut the federal funds rate — the level at which banks borrow from each other overnight — from 4 to 33/4 p.c. is a far cry from market concerns of a few weeks ago that the Fed might soon tighten monetary policy . |