Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a few [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
2 | Nobody cares about a few thousand Masai . |
3 | It all starts with a few slow miles in the suburbs , then out into the Suffolk countryside , with a long trail of runner snaking their way along narrow country lanes . |
4 | It usually leads to a few cracked paving stones , ’ he said . |
5 | The canoeing is mostly grade I racks with a few tight grade I+/II shoots ; there is one grade II at Bogroy footbridge , a twisting descent over 3 rock ledges , and the photographically spectacular grade III in the centre of Carrbridge itself . |
6 | The number of neurones in a brain varies from a few hundred in simple invertebrates up to approximately 10 11 in man . |
7 | Now we can begin to see the outlines of a theory of human personality and cultural development which is elegant indeed and which reduces to a few general principles many of the random and apparently unsystematic motions of human history and culture . |
8 | The Valley is the capital of the area but do n't expect much — it simply consists of a few official buildings , shops and the island 's only traffic light ! |
9 | Neutron stars may produce more energy than the Sun soon after they form , when they are active as pulsars , but this phase of energetic activity only lasts for a few thousand years . |
10 | A secondary stage follows after a few more months and manifests itself by a rash on the face and body . |
11 | If she walks within a few hundred yards of this building , she will see young people , whom the Government have deprived of benefit , sleeping rough and begging on the streets because of the total indifference of people such as the hon. Lady and Conservative Members . |
12 | The algorithm begins with a few small clusters , and it enlarges them and creates new clusters as it is presented with more data . |
13 | The second session begins with a few limbering-up exercises and then goes immediately to the selection . |
14 | There are dozens of them , some with very good outdoors and walking sections and it 's an unusually restrained visitor who leaves without a few extra pounds in the backpack . |
15 | Here , clinging like autumn leaves to a few favoured trees , some 200m butterflies sleep through the winter . |