Example sentences of "and a few [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And , for as long as the robots of science fact were limited to the assembly lines of the automotive and a few other manufacturing industries , our general perception of the robot was unlikely to change .
2 The park authority itself has few powers over agricultural change — control of the largest and a few other farm buildings but little else — and must operate by giving counter advice and offering compensation to the Farmer who proposes an action that is seen to be damaging .
3 In recent weeks , movie people — and a few small screen celebs — have lined up to say it was all a terrible mistake , this indiscriminate violence on our cinema and television screens .
4 There is a sizeable iron water wheel still in situ although , with the exception of some iron framing and a few odd belt wheels , little else remains of its milling equipment .
5 Of the 84 cars in stock in 1919 , half comprised the Toastracks and Dreadnoughts and a few dated back to 1885 !
6 Pure beef cattle are rare : there is a handful of Aberdeen Angus , about 2,000 Hereford , 3,000 Charolais , 800 Simmental and a few hundred Limousin , Scottish Highland and Blonde d'Aquitaine .
7 Meiosis can not normally occur unless the chromosomes form so-called homologous pairs ; despite this , meiosis did occasionally occur and a few normal-looking egg cells appeared .
8 The airstrip itself had been built to serve a golf and diving resort that a consortium of Dutch and American businessmen had planned to build on Straker 's Cay , but the money had run out before the hotel or marina had been built and all that was left of their grandiose plans was this pinkish runway made of compacted coral and a few abandoned cement mixers which rusted forlornly where the hotel 's swimming pool was to have been built .
9 The odd plaice show throughout May along with bass and a few early silver eel .
10 And this on an island where there appeared to be next to no gold and a few sparse cotton plants .
11 Tobacco was for men and a few old tinker women who sucked on a pipe .
12 The oil storage tanks were still there , so was the big , now empty hall which had housed the ENSA concert parties , and a few pre-fabricated administration bungalows , some windowless and with doors creaking in the wind .
13 For the foliage in the picture , I used some silverweed , Alchemilla alpina , some grey ‘ curry plant ’ , sea lavender , a little pink heather and a few grey bramble leaves .
14 Waders such as purple sandpipers , turnstones and a few grey phalarope share the tundra habitat .
15 There was a diagram on the screen and a few dried-out felt pens on the wooden ridge under it .
16 The kidneys are cooked whole in butter and just before serving them you " throw in a wineglassful of burnt gin and a few crushed juniper berries .
17 In Britain , at least , communications are dominated by a few millionaire proprietors and a few large conglomerate companies .
18 We then re-examined our whole hand , studied in more detail than before the costs and revenues from individual products and found , hey presto ! that we had a mixed bag between the good profit earners and a few large loss leaders and so on and so on .
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