Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] to a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet a friend with a 14.1hh Welsh Cob says his costs average out at £12 a week ; admittedly she has her own land and he lives out most of the time , but he really earns his living — last year they did everything from Riding Club events to a few days hunting . |
| 2 | Members of the GWR Preservation Society will learn with particular interest that w.e.f. 21st October the world-famous Torbsy Express will be making a nostalgic return visit to a few stretches of its old track , and will first be housed for three weeks in Railway Shed 4 at Plymouth . |
| 3 | The social hierarchy in English towns took the same shape as in the countryside , tapering from a broad base composed of those who lived on or below the poverty line to a few outstanding wealthy families . |
| 4 | For reasons principally of economy , most county councils have preferred to concentrate development on a few villages which can then conveniently be provided with the full range of public amenities — schools , shops , libraries , sewerage facilities and so on-This saves on the enormous cost of duplicating amenities in every village and helps to direct and contain population growth to a few well-chosen sites . |
| 5 | Subsequent revision of the taxonomy of rocky shore whelks has restricted the genus Purpura to a few large-mouthed , high intertidal whelks from warm seas-mostly in the Indo-Pacific . |
| 6 | Statistical packages will now perform a battery of sophisticated multivariate analyses that reduce unwieldy correlation matrices to a few succinct dimensions . |
| 7 | The same writer recommended giving glasshouse room to a few hedgehogs , ideal for keeping down woodlice . |