Example sentences of "a few [adj] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damn him if she would explain that the young man to whom he 'd referred had merely been a fellow Briton attending a conference on international computing , that they 'd exchanged nothing more than a few polite comments natural to fellow compatriots abroad , and that his arm had been lying across the back of the bench seats and not round her shoulders . |
| 2 | With a few simple commands great sweeping designs appear and disappear , colours change and a new pattern emerges . |
| 3 | He was booked in the first half for having a go at Whelan , and did a few other challenges worthy of his bad name . |
| 4 | Most children enter school being able to read their own name and a few other words seen-and-said on television programmes , on labels on food , and on public notices . |
| 5 | JACK NICHOLSON 'S latest blockbuster A Few Good Men smashed box office records taking £10.6 million over its opening weekend . |
| 6 | After a few stunned seconds plump arms enfolded her . |
| 7 | It was at Jarama that we first saw Derek Gardner 's revolutionary six-wheeled car and it was there , too , that a few silly millimetres deprived Hunt of his first victory of the season , achieved against stern opposition from his team-mate Jochen Mass and a Niki Lauda who had been quite seriously injured in a tractor accident back in Austria and was therefore not entirely fit . |
| 8 | However , until quite recently , the possibility of making recordings in Britain was dominated by a few large companies involved in manufacturing and distributing records as well as originating them . |
| 9 | This is , of course , the Caucasus , a landscape jewel in the crown of the USSR , until recently little known to Westerners other than a few privileged mountaineers lucky enough to be invited to climb there . |