Example sentences of "and a few [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |
| 2 | They saw a warm , comfortable room with a good fire burning in the fireplace and a few papers on the big table . |
| 3 | By dawn , some patchy drizzle seems likely over eastern England and a few showers over both the south east and south west . |
| 4 | There was only a handful of tourists and a few gardeners in orange overalls and hard yellow hats batting the undergrowth down and checking the stonework . |
| 5 | Shortly before the threshold and a few feet above the ground he heard a loud bang accompanied by a violent nose-up motion . |
| 6 | The Jimmy Young Show 's formula of tea and chat and a few questions on a postcard from Radio 2 listeners was her favourite method of reaching the general public . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're in a bizarre situation , are n't we , with me having access to some of the files and a few contacts in the Service and you doing the interrogations ? ’ |
| 8 | It is a common fault , particularly in criminal law , to give the impression that the answer is based wholly upon common sense and a few gleanings from the Sunday newspapers . |
| 9 | It can not be very comfortable , for it consists merely of an uneven depression on top of the stone wall , barely softened by dust and a few wisps of hay . |
| 10 | As a deep rumbling and a few wisps of smoke were produced by the yacht , he turned back to the Doctor . |
| 11 | Except for a few stereotyped responses from the wilder churches — Pastor David Powell of the Rotherham Pentecostal Church actually banned gays from his services — and a few jibes from the local National Front , we were always treated politely , listened to with interest and generally well received . |
| 12 | We can contemplate many pictures of large-wheeled carts , for example , and a few scraps of them remain ; but the details of land transport are still obscure , though we become ever more aware how much must have travelled on exceedingly inadequate roads . |
| 13 | This seemed to be a place where , despite noises in the night and a few dangers like trees that grew inside you and made your throat choke , a person might feel sale for always . |
| 14 | So I made myself at home at the Golden Turk ; the two-faced landlord greeted me civilly enough , providing a chamber on the second floor with a pallet bed and a few sticks of furniture . |
| 15 | Thus creating a succulently flavoured ham that goes perfectly with a watercress and avocado salad and a few slices of brown bread . |
| 16 | Taking a pint of milk from the fridge , and a few slices of fresh bread , I lost no time in getting ‘ Starna ’ under way . |
| 17 | Usual anti-climax — old birds standing round a bit o' grass at t'back they 'd got lease of for a few hours , wi' a garden label saying Mrs Edna Morrison and a few bunches of chrysanths put in rows . |
| 18 | From behind us , from the Muslim district of Shiyah , came about 20 people , husbands and wives and a few girls in summer dresses and a man with two little boys walking beside him . |
| 19 | If you do not like a coffee house you have lost only the price of a cup of coffee and a few minutes of your time . |
| 20 | After drinks and introductions and a few minutes of jangled smalltalk , as if the three of us were gods or apes or spacemen , Fielding did the bad thing . |
| 21 | She seemed calm and peaceful , and a few minutes in her presence soon cheered Mr Wolski up . |
| 22 | Ellis has sent us some veal and ham pie and a few half-bottles of champagne : I must keep playing on his guilt . |
| 23 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 24 | Granuloma inguinale is evenly distributed in tropical regions , with a high prevalence in Papua New Guinea and Southern India and a few cases in Africa , the Southern USA , South-East Asia , and the Caribbean . |
| 25 | Early in 1921 , a slight chill and a few spots on my chest meant that I was away from school for a couple of days . |
| 26 | She tells him all and , one assumes from hints and a few quotations in her letters , he does the same to her . |
| 27 | As the cortege approached Uzerche on its way north , the chronicler Geoffrey and a few monks from the priory of Vigeois , standing on a hill , watched it go by on the road below . |
| 28 | And a commonplace book , and a few letters from friends , and this one diary of Blanche Glover 's , just for three years . |
| 29 | In the past the normal essay was handed in complete in final draft , and marked with a grade and a few sentences of comment from the teacher . |
| 30 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |