Example sentences of "and [adv] a few [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Skip could not speak Russian and only a few crew members could speak limited English . |
2 | With an equal number of doctors and town watchmen in the city , about 50 , no gas and only a few oil lamps illuminating the winding streets and alleys , the dark work of the Resurrectionists went ahead almost unhindered . |
3 | And just a few ledger lines above . |
4 | Depending upon the size of your holding , you will keep one or two house cows or goats , turning their milk into butter , cheese , and yoghurt , and possibly a few beef cattle as money-spinners . |
5 | Savary-Miller grading of the oesophageal mucisa was confirmed by biopy specimens taken from all macroscopic lsions and also a few centimetre proximal to them or , if no lesions were visible , from a site 3–5 cm above the oesophagogastric junction . |