Example sentences of "a few [adj] [noun pl] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immediate result is that alongside a few major clerics such as Runcie and Jenkins , we find that Stalker , Sampson , Anderton , Alderson , Newman , Imbert , Dear , Oxford , and Hermon are national personalities , while a second division of chief officers regularly proclaim on a range of subjects which at other times would lie outside the province of the police . |
| 2 | However , Will Purser helped me with a few defensive sentences such as , ‘ Please talk slowly , I have only just begun to learn Burmese . ’ |
| 3 | The SAPC consists largely of representatives from Regional and District Councils , plus a few other organisations such as police , motoring associations etc . |
| 4 | But they also tried out a few Western favourites such as a meal at McDonalds , a fish and chip supper , and a performance of Cats . |
| 5 | Income tax in peacetime was not introduced in the UK until the 1840s , and VAT — a general tax on goods and services ( with a few specified exemptions such as good and children 's clothing ) — was not introduced until the 1970s . |
| 6 | Most of them were named after mythological characters , though there were also a few everyday objects such as a Triangle and an Altar . |
| 7 | Except for a few specialised publications such as The Art Newspaper , only a handful of quality papers regularly deal with issues concerning the art trade : the International Herald Tribune ; the German Handelsblatt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; and in the United States , the New York Times . |
| 8 | For example the system developed by Earnest ( 1962 ) extracts a few primitive measures such as differential vertical extent , closed loops and a count of horizontal centreline crossings . |
| 9 | We are doing well with dog-fighting in spite of its illegality , and we are making progress with a few speculative lines such as cave diving , simulated extreme skiing and Russian roulette . |
| 10 | A few unusual drugs such as digoxin may be secreted actively by the intestinal mucosa , but this process is unlikely to contribute more than passive diffusion does to the effect of activated charcoal on drug clearance . |