Example sentences of "[coord] a few [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few hundred or a few thousand farmers might oppose a return to downland because it would mean lower profits . |
| 2 | Where there is a strong relationship between the degree subject and one or a few subsequent types of work , it is possible to orientate the curriculum towards such work . |
| 3 | In particular , when the creature has to take account of a wide range of structural differences and similarities between distinct situations ( as opposed to concentrating on only one or a few physical parameters ) , these structural features can only be represented symbolically — for , by hypothesis , they have no physical features in common . |
| 4 | The Good Retirement Guide is not designed to offer you a ready-made philosophy or a few rose-tinted blueprints on the theme ‘ Life Begins in Middle Age ’ . |
| 5 | Alternatively , add 2 or 3 teaspoonfuls of soil , or a few dead leaves . |
| 6 | It was just one more sign of his separateness from the people around who would buy a cow or a few more fields . |
| 7 | ‘ To a man without a job a few more houses on a field or a few foreign accents in the local pub seem a price worth paying for prosperity . |
| 8 | Staggering And , after earning at the staggering rate of nearly $60 a second throughout this tournament , he said : ‘ I would rather win Wimbledon again and a few thousand pounds than this tournament and all this money . ’ |
| 9 | One interesting side effect of the fire in Ankh-Morpork concerns the inn-sewer-ants policy , which left the city through the ravaged roof of the Broken Drum , was wafted high into the discworld 's atmosphere on the ensuing thermal , and came to earth several days and a few thousand miles away on an uloruaha bush in the beTrobi islands . |
| 10 | A mild breeze shook the leaves and a few dark clouds scudded across the sky . |
| 11 | May Sinclair also wrote various pieces of literary criticism on both nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors , a Brontë biography ( The Three Brontës , 1912 ) , and a few unpublished dramas . |
| 12 | Margulis 's theory is that mitochondria and chloroplasts , and a few other structures inside cells , are each descended from bacteria . |
| 13 | In the South Midlands and a few other areas where farm labourers could earn only a pittance crafts that employed mothers and daughters provided welcome extra income . |
| 14 | A city where the fringe theatre meant Jim Haynes , Charles Marovitz , and a few other expatriates from across the Atlantic , and avant-garde cinema a night out at the 35-year-old Academy in Oxford Street . |
| 15 | Let's go into the other room and we 'll have a word about his diet and a few other things . " |
| 16 | Other products are bought on the commodity exchanges , like to a large extent tea cocoa and a few other things like Rowntrees buying cocoa from Ghana but now they seem to buy it anywhere that they can get it cheaply . |
| 17 | I have a neighbour with a toddler who was outgrowing several of the things I was looking for ; the pram came from her , and a few other things as well . |
| 18 | I think the conclusion coming out of that is that as a result of what I 've described and a few other things as well , not least the fact that the company has now capped its contribution rate to no more than ten per cent . |
| 19 | Low kicks to the legs are not allowed , but apart from that and a few other rules , kickboxing is similar to the other martial art ring-sports . |
| 20 | I mean , in Britain , if I was studying the daisy family for example , there 'd be the garden daisy and a few other bits and bobs , but that would be it . |
| 21 | Each frame has all kinds of details associated with it , and the ones you can control explicitly are to do with backgrounds , wipes , sound and a few other bits and bobs like frame display timing . |
| 22 | After you 've loaded your network drivers ( which are memory hungry ) , ANSI.SYS , SMARTDRV.SYS , RAMDRV.SYS , MOUSE.COM , EGA.SYS , EMM386.EXE , CD ROM drivers , Sound card drivers and a few other bits and bobs , not to mention your memory resident anti-virus software , you can find yourself getting the ‘ not enough memory to run xxxxxx.exe ’ rather more often than you 'd like . |
| 23 | The entry level Calibra ( with eight-valve 2.0i engine ) receives a dressing up , with alloy wheels , leather steering wheel and a few other touches added . |
| 24 | Fuels made from biomass , like ethanol , from sugar cane , are used in Brazil and a few other countries , but are subject to shortages , sometimes because of drought . |
| 25 | Mortality statistics of most Western European and a few other countries are being used to develop and test these new measures . |
| 26 | The British National Health Service provides free urgent medical care for all residents of European Community countries and a few other countries with whom the UK has reciprocal medical agreements . |
| 27 | De Monte published some Ronsard sonnet-settings in 1575 , including a beautiful ‘ Le premier iour du moy de may ’ , and a few other chansons , but nothing German despite his long residence at the Imperial court in Vienna and Prague . |
| 28 | He made the turn in one under par and was joined in a battle with the Spanish machine Jose Miguel and a few other golfers for the places from third downwards . |
| 29 | Short sentences , a varied array of conjunctions , and absence of the typical conjunctions ( mainly wa , fa , and a few other particles ) are associated with translated Arabic texts — original Arabic texts do not normally display these features . |
| 30 | We 'll walk up to Clark 's and Joseph 's to get new batteries for the radio and a few other odds and ends . |