Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a few [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All caution ( H & S ) was thrown to the wind as a few sample experiments will show : how to make coal gas ; a safe gas explosion ; how to make a banger ; how to explode a little picric acid . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The pictures are standard practice in a few health surveys , ’ said Miss Snowdon . |
| 4 | It added that control of inflation was necessary , but it was important that ‘ a reduction of a few percentage points in the headline inflation rate should not be achieved at a disproportionate cost in terms of income creation and employment ’ . |
| 5 | As far as the eye could see was desert and the only break in the horizon was the pitiful silhouette of a few mud shelters . |
| 6 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 7 | I am nothing but a stomach of cheap tin , empty but for the clanking of a few tin cans which have been squashed by a gargantuan hand and thrown together . |
| 8 | Some weeks ago we sent a draft of a similar digest to a few Age Concern groups in order that we gain an appreciation of such a service and whether we should develop it further . |
| 9 | While they chased the business of a few gambling councils , some City lawyers were already arguing that councils could enter into swaps only to hedge interest-rate payments on normal borrowings . |
| 10 | Gray ( 1986 , pp. 11 , 16 ) sees ‘ little evidence of genuine assessment beyond the establishment of a few input indicators ’ , and suggests that we are witnessing ‘ the ascendancy of economy and efficiency over effectiveness and efficacy ’ . |
| 11 | The political awakening that followed the Second World War and the period when French West Africans were able to elect members to the French Parliament saw the establishment of a few party papers , but few Africans could read them and their circulations were extremely low . |
| 12 | I must confess that I find this deeply attractive , and I want to draw attention to a few Bible passages where I think this idea is being worked out . |
| 13 | As all sand surfaces possess chance irregularities , even though they may be only of the magnitude of a few sand grains , there is a natural tendency for ripples to form . |
| 14 | Rifle Club It was reported that the rifle club had again had a successful season and had taken part in a few Game Fairs and National Competitions . |
| 15 | Rifle Club It was reported that the rifle club had again had a successful season and had taken part in a few Game Fairs and National Competitions . |
| 16 | No I ai n't gon na , I got ta go and have a look round a few second hand shops and that . |
| 17 | A very simple and beautiful example of the use of substitution notes may be found at the beginning of Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde : Here the commonplace cadence A minor-F7-E7 is given a subtle mystery through the use of a few substitution notes as follows : in bar 2 , G is a chromatic substitution for A ( on which it resolves ) , while B is a diatonic substitution for A or C , on which it does not resolve ; in bar 3 , A substitutes chromatically for B , on which it resolves . |
| 18 | Then there was the partitioned living area with a few kitchen chairs , an oilstove , a larger wicker easy chair for ‘ the woman ’ in the corner , near the window that overlooked the wharf and the meadows . |
| 19 | After closure of the line , there was the occasional train into Hyde 's siding at Horns Bridge plus a few demolition trains . |
| 20 | Parts I-IV consist of double-choral pieces for eight , but sometimes twelve , voices ; with Part V he began a systematization according to category , with motet-settings of Festlieder , and went on to produce three volumes — 746 pieces to 458 different texts — of straightforward four-part settings for congregational use plus a few organ ‘ variations ’ in VII ; in IX he again set the hymns of I-IV but for two or three voices and even contemplated doing them yet again ‘ motet-wise in the style of Lassus ’ , ‘ madrigal-wise in the style of Marenzio ’ , and per choros in the style of Victoria . |
| 21 | Since the 1978 UN Conference on Health at Alma Ata it has become a universal wisdom that it is much more effective to build a primary health care network than to spend the same money on a few prestige hospitals which could only ever be used by an urban elite . |
| 22 | He noted that the wavelength of sound in water at a frequency of a few gigahertz ( thousand million cycles per second ) is comparable with that of visible light . |
| 23 | I ca n't believe that , within the space of a few shit |
| 24 | Also hold the inward creases of the pleat to the back of the heading with a few hand stitches at the top of the pleat . |
| 25 | Gav — I notice there was no gossip about Batts nipping in to the bank for a few sov 's . |
| 26 | For the short-term gain of a few mining companies . ’ |
| 27 | I suppose I should warm up the audience with a few Hound of the Baskerville howls , send Rainbow 's eyes swirling round like Roman candles , and cause fruity Yiddish curses to croak and gibber from her mouth . |
| 28 | Meals-on-Wheels ( organised by WRVS ) were available only two days a week ; the social services department had only minimal provision for day care in a few Part III homes . |
| 29 | Among the intelligentsia , hardly a voice was raised in its defence , with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism . |
| 30 | You can see that with the possible exception of a few dust samples there are no radiometric ages older than 4600 Ma , which is additional evidence for this being the age of formation of the planets . |