Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a few [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airport duties made a pleasant change for a few of our lads , and one of them was offered a helicopter flight to the rigs one day . |
| 2 | But a careful look through a few of the magazines and newspapers in which wildlife traders advertise , suggests otherwise , says Steven Broad , Investigations Officer , Wildlife Trade Monitoring Unit . |
| 3 | ‘ I dare say , but I 'd far rather be playing snooker with a few of the boys , accompanied by a few pints of beer — preferably Devil 's Dram . |
| 4 | The day was marred only slightly by the presence of a few of that fraternity who find out about all such events , spend the whole day taking photographs and video and contribute very little or nothing back into the hobby . |
| 5 | The examples given of settlements in Canada , Australia and New Zealand demonstrate the influence of a few of the colonisers who went out from Ayrshire and give an indication of the varied circumstances and locations in which the emigrants started their new lives . |
| 6 | This is not surprising : even Pilâtre de Rozier , the French balloonist , once filled his mouth with a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen with a few to blowing the gases into a flame . |
| 7 | Ken Pitt : ‘ I think the great problem was David was always very insecure and because he was n't achieving the renown he wanted , like most artists he began to worry , bearing in mind that David was now living at Haddon Hall with a few of his friends , all of whom were unaware of what was going on in the office and how we were planning David 's career , what progress we were really making . |
| 8 | It obviously took the photographer , Arthur Richardson , some time to set up his equipment as he has attracted the attention of a few of the locals . |
| 9 | She just wanted to hear her hero 's lovely voice , see those flashing eyes and bolster up her imagination with a few of his telling phrases about ‘ El Amor ’ . |
| 10 | This is but a small selection of events and festivals taking place in a few of our worldwide destinations — an ideal and enjoyable way to appreciate the culture and local traditions in each country . |
| 11 | Jazz skewered up his hair with a few of Mrs Nicholson 's hairpins and the three of them shuffled and clacked respectively for home , grateful for the now emptier streets . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's intending to drop in and have a social drink with a few of them in the next day or so , have lunch or dinner , participate in old boys ’ chat , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 13 | But over the years , the government did little except to remove contaminated soil , even though the trail of dioxin was showing contamination from a few to a several hundred PPB . |
| 14 | This is the habit of a few of the gall-causing insects . |
| 15 | Collection of a few of the mostly common species for the home aquaria is unlikely to diminish the local fauna , except in a few special areas , which need to be respected . |
| 16 | BOURSAULT : Belemnite chalk on a few of the very lowest slopes , mainly sand , sandstone , clay and lignites mixed with various calcareous deposits . |
| 17 | I told Mike Teague beforehand that if we lost it would mean the end of the road for a few of us . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Well , after Sir Edmund finished his interrogation this morning , I had a word with a few of the servants , men from the outlying farms . |
| 19 | You drive along a narrow , twisting road half-way up a mountain of rocks and boulders , supporting nothing but scrub and heather plus a few of the tougher and more foolhardy breed of sheep , round a bend and then , suddenly , you look down and there is the valley , with its winding river , fertile fields , a village tucked away at one end , and a verdancy that knocks you for six with its lushness . |
| 20 | She also said she would find out more information about a few of them for me . |
| 21 | The students had not yet arrived , but I took meals in the refectory with a few of the college authorities and professors who had already started the new term 's work . |
| 22 | True , there was something unbearably starchy about much of the supposed ‘ informality ’ in the film , but it appeared to have cast a full tungsten glare over a few of the secrets of the magicians . |
| 23 | See what happened overleaf when we went north to practise our own floral wizardry on a few of those bright young Mancunians … |
| 24 | There may sometimes be a tendency for a few of the structures to occur in a group or with a temporary periodicity , but , in general , the random aspect of turbulence is manifested in when and where coherent structures are to be found . |
| 25 | This chapter is a brief distillation of a few of the themes in that book , but really I 'd almost rather you stopped reading now and switched to The Extended Phenotype ! |
| 26 | With the exception of a few of the non-manual workers , concentrated in the first group , early retirement can not be said to have been chosen from a position of strength — namely , possessing financial security , good health , and the option of continued employment . |
| 27 | I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do . |
| 28 | DISNEY says it has a minor dispute with a few of the hundreds of contractors it has dealt with on the project . |
| 29 | My purpose here will be to give a very brief sketch of what each of the theories attempts and to direct the interested reader to a few of the many other books that do give detailed accounts and critiques of them . |