Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a few [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll be looking for a few home runs at their new home at Dowty Aerospace . |
| 2 | The Shamen are a tad pissed off that nobody seems to write about them without dropping in a few drug references . |
| 3 | The Shamen are a tad pissed off that nobody seems to write about them without dropping in a few drug references . |
| 4 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 5 | ‘ Oi already 'ahd 10 on the board boi then , ’ explained the Smallholder , a faint wisp of happy remembrance tugging at a few cheek muscles . |
| 6 | There is no good evidence for the widespread and effective use of any methods of family planning outside a few élite or urban groups until the end of the eighteenth century ( Wilson 1984 , Livi-Bacci 1986 ) , and even then appliance methods do not become important for another century . |