Example sentences of "and a few [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Near one of the posts , a hammer and a few nails had been left behind . |
| 2 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 3 | We have , erm , one more paragraph and a few questions to discuss and time , what is it , it 's about ten past now , is it , according to your |
| 4 | It does n't take long and a few minutes trying things out could mean hours saved later and some useful space where you have used up some leftover yarns . |
| 5 | Then , after a couple of minutes , I entered the house in time to see Lovat and a few Commandos dashing upstairs . |
| 6 | Most classrooms had at least one such area , usually a reading or library corner , and a few teachers had organized their rooms entirely in this way , forming as many as six or seven work areas . |
| 7 | We started off just looking for a few cuddly toys and a few pounds to send them across to the folk in Roumania because we were all very touched by the need of the children there . |
| 8 | The only men in evidence at Group were the Met and Operations Room Officers , and a few erks to do the pen-pushing jobs . |
| 9 | Smoke billowed out and a few snowflakes fluttered into the car . |
| 10 | And a few companies found their senior women were suspicious rather than supportive . |
| 11 | In the ninth century they were stolen and moved to Conques , where was a narrow shelf of rock in a remote , retired valley of great beauty in the Rouergue , in the Massif Central ; and here was space enough for a hermitage and a small oratory — for Faith , and a few monks to protect and cultivate her . |
| 12 | In lowland England , then , only the church , the manor house , and a few cottages pre-date the Industrial Revolution . |
| 13 | There is a Youth Hostel and a few cottages provide overnight accommodation ; once there was an inn , the Cathole , but now a fading memory . |
| 14 | This , unfortunately , had not always been the case and a few farmers complained about 12 and 24 hours notice for ATB courses . |
| 15 | Far away , through the mist , the blur of the city deepened like a sooty thumbprint and a few lights came out . |
| 16 | Broods regularly contain six or seven chicks , and a few parents produced eight or nine young . |
| 17 | Amid the banter and foul jibes of the crowd — drunk as all crowds are at a blood-letting — the God-bearer Mary and a few disciples stood numb with horror and dread as they saw their Lord and their champion humiliated , despised and broken . |
| 18 | Whiting , coalfish and a few dabs to worm . |
| 19 | The last smear of faded orange was being sucked out of the sky and a few windows jumped into oblongs of light along the battered terrace . |
| 20 | Porting a 1.24 million-line C code CAE application to different machines and operating systems , including rewriting the graphics drivers , seems to have taken only about two to three man-months per port for development , and a few man-months to test before shipping . |
| 21 | ‘ I and a few others got into Kuwait in the morning and we were finishing our day 's work at about 5pm . |
| 22 | Rains and Daine had owned a piece of Kirk Douglas , a promising young heavyweight whose career had been ended by a ‘ cerebral haemorrhage ’ in the ring , just in time for Kruger and a few others to collect a parcel by betting against him . |
| 23 | I tell the truth , honest I do ! " one was shouting , and it and a few others tugged at the lower edges of the few furs he still had on and pulling on his under-breeches where they appeared out of the top of his boots . |
| 24 | While the Duke of Richmond and a few others remained calm , seeing the essentially limited nature of the outbreaks , some landowners , like Sir Godfrey Webster , temporarily returned from exile , thoroughly enjoyed themselves galloping around the country at night with troops of dragoons or coastguards to hunt down troublemakers . |
| 25 | Thus , when a number of media people went to Basra , Tony and a few others headed for Nasariyah . |
| 26 | It was n't much more than a fishing village until the eighteenth century when French Jesuits and a few merchants demanded the right to build a city . |
| 27 | There were about fifteen cattle , around a dozen sheep and a few lambs left over from the spring lambing . |
| 28 | He and a few friends discovered that there was big money to be made by injecting humour into an area traditionally ignored by the British — teaching staff how to be more effective . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought a quick gallop , a guzzle of the local tincture and a few snaps to record the event for posterity . ’ |
| 30 | One chub in the following thirty minutes and I was back on the feeder , four good chub and a few bits followed , no more barbel , and I finished with a total weight of 14lb . |