Example sentences of "of a few [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been ridiculously cheap because of a few slight zebra markings . |
| 2 | If the tapping of telephones of trade unionists in industrial disputes is difficult to justify , even less justifiable is the evidence of the routine and systematic interception of telephones of a few key union leaders . |
| 3 | A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands . |
| 4 | Try placing the unit under load ( a current of a few hundred mA would be useful ) and see if the voltage drop across R13 increases . |
| 5 | The finished string of a few hundred amino acids will , in a suitable liquid medium at a suitable temperature , fold up to form a three-dimensional globular structure , the active protein . |
| 6 | Then the thousand or so readers of a few imported fashion magazines ( which it seemed would be prohibited because they contained foreign tobacco advertisements ) momentarily rallied key support from the free speech lobby . |
| 7 | The top picture was composed of agrimony leaves and alchemilla flowers , with the addition of a few pink larkspur and red hawthorn flowers . |
| 8 | What follows is a consideration of a few vital food elements outlining their importance to the health of older people , and looking at the effect that dietary deficiency might have on what have hitherto been considered normal factors in the ageing process . |
| 9 | With the exception of a few short magazine contributions and the revision of the serial The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved for publication in book form , it brought to an end a career in prose fiction which had seen the publication of 14 novels and some 40 stories , and earned Hardy a place among the greatest 19th-century novelists . |
| 10 | But the way he works at his game , do n't rule out the possibility of a few more wonder balls this summer . |