Example sentences of "a few [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few moments lonely Tess was asleep , in the bedroom once used by the young wives of her ancestors . |
| 2 | A couple of boy-soldiers spend a few moments admiring Anastasia . |
| 3 | In a few areas great progress is being made . |
| 4 | In a few areas local government agencies took some steps to tackle this problem , but real progress did not come until central government gave local authorities powers to act effectively , and also required them to take such action . |
| 5 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
| 6 | In a few cases home-based treatment using the same approach may be helpful , although large-scale use of domiciliary treatment does not appear to be justified . |
| 7 | In a few cases private individuals have been receiving journals by post , if they weigh less than 300 grams . |
| 8 | But in a few cases careful evidence must be gathered to show whether the attachment falls within Cox v Harrison at ( B ) 7 above . |
| 9 | Immunostaining for each enzyme was present in the cytoplasm of tumour cells ( Fig 3 and 4 ) , although in a few cases nuclear staining was also seen for the glutathione S-transferases . |
| 10 | Apparently they 're the offspring of a few cabbage white butterflies which were blown across the channel , have hatched , and are currently munching their way through the garden of England . |
| 11 | Most of these accidents could have been avoided by just a few minutes extra care . |
| 12 | But in a few minutes Israeli troops , armed with anti-tank rockets and machine-guns , had turned the place into rubble and 22 families , 140 people , had lost their homes and all their possessions . |
| 13 | After a few minutes dried food becomes soggy and loses its appeal , so the rule becomes : feed no more than the fish will eat in five minutes . |
| 14 | The scorpions show divisions only in their long tails ; and most spiders have completely lost all signs of segmentation , only a few Southeast Asian species having clearly recognisable relics of their segmented past . |
| 15 | Skye ran a few schooldays French phrases through her mind . |
| 16 | Some a few feet tall others up to 18 feet . |
| 17 | In calculating the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for El , a few pupils used knowledge gained from playing darts : treble 17 was known to be 51 and 51p doubled was 102 , making one 17p too many . |
| 18 | In a few boatyards sea-going craft were being built or repaired . |
| 19 | There were a few growls front Amery , who had also been excluded , but not much more . |
| 20 | Within a few days military delegations from Myanma and Thailand had met and Myanman troops were withdrawn by Dec. 25 . |
| 21 | Show your dynamism by suggesting a few surefire financial winners , the sort of title that will end up extracted in the Telegraph Magazine . |
| 22 | On a few occasions other service-providers sought to refer clients directly to the project ; and very occasionally expressed the wish that the development officers could have acted more quickly with a client whose situation they felt needed immediate action . |
| 23 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |
| 24 | Adult sheep often have a few N. battus eggs in their faeces , but these are insufficient to precipitate a larval flush although enough to ensure the persistence of infection on the pastures . |
| 25 | Quite simply mastery of colonial languages gave a few people unfettered power . |
| 26 | Within a few years other reformers , including Wilberforce and Clarkson , recognised that their belief in virtually automatic improvement in the population and condition of slaves was naïve . |
| 27 | It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ . |
| 28 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
| 29 | At the end of his first week back , Baldwin went to stay at Cumberland Lodge , in Windsor Great Park , only a few miles front Fort Belvedere , a bijou residence which justified its martial name only by looking like a toy castle , but which was nonetheless the King 's main base throughout his brief reign . |
| 30 | Harvey lived with his wife and two children a few miles outside town on the road to Laredo and the Mexican border . |