Example sentences of "a few [noun] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at the simplest and most active plate boundaries , a major earthquake caused by a few metres movement of a fault recurs perhaps six times a millennium . |
| 2 | By storing up a few milliseconds worth of message and then pumping it out in a splurge , several digital phones can operate over a channel that would accommodate only a single analogue one : they merely send out their bursts at different times . |
| 3 | Heights do not usually exceed 12 metres but in a few instances heights of more than 20 metres have been involved . |
| 4 | ‘ Ca n't a woman get a few hours sleep of an after-noon ? ’ the slattern inquired of Didier . |
| 5 | Within a few hours drive of Gwent , for instance , lie some fascinating areas — the Forest of Dean , formerly a major coal-producing area ; Snowdonia , where the evidence of centuries of quarrying and mineral extraction is heaped everywhere ; Pembrokeshire , where pretty fishing villages once exported coal , and Cornwall where mining was once a much bigger earner than cream teas . |
| 6 | Laboriously tilled fields of corn became within a few hours torrents of mud , houses slipped down hillsides , church-towers were struck by lightning , sheep and cattle were carried away in swirling waters and dawn revealed their bloated corpses jammed against the piers of bridges that had themselves been partially destroyed by the weight and fury of the swollen waters . |
| 7 | Fixed-price contracts have been normal for production contracts but on occasion this has led to claims that excess profits have been made and in a few cases repayment of the excess has been enforced . |
| 8 | Earlier manmetric studies of the UOS in children used perfused sidehole pull through methods with sedation , an approach that only gives a few sample values of UOS pressure and these are influenced by the effects of sedation and stress . |
| 9 | Some cattle are reared on permanent pasture on the lower slopes and a few fodder crops of grass , oats and potatoes are grown in the lower valleys . |
| 10 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 11 | Also known as Alphabet City , or Loisaida to the Hispanics whose numbers dominate the area , it lies a few blocks north of Little Italy , the spiritual home of the Mafia , and a few blocks south of the East Village , where New York beatniks gave birth to our modern global drug subculture . |
| 12 | A few mono copies of the album with the deleted cuts did make it out of the factory but no stereo version was believed to have been pressed until early this year , when the only known copy was advertised for auction by Strider Records of New York . |
| 13 | Magharba reinforcements from Bishr turned up and camped in a clump of trees a few kilometres west of town . |
| 14 | The delightfully named village of Chigny-les-Roses is situated south of Reims , on the northern slopes of the Montagne , a few kilometres west of the grand cru villages of Mailly-Champagne and Verzenay . |
| 15 | Some stolen cattle were transported from the Northern Band to supply the beef market at Kandy ; the Moors of Akurana , a few kilometres north of Kandy , were said to be involved in this trade . |
| 16 | Last June saw the opening of a new museum in Ingolstadt , a few kilometres north of Munich , devoted to concrete art the art of geometric form and pure colour espoused in the 1930s by artists such as Arp , Kupka , Vantongerloo and van Doesburg . |
| 17 | The most important river in the region is the Marne which starts life in dramatic surroundings a few kilometres south of Langres , not far from the magnificent Château le Pailly . |
| 18 | Among the intelligentsia , hardly a voice was raised in its defence , with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism . |
| 19 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 20 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 21 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 22 | Any one of the three main political parties could take the seat because they were within a few percentage points of each other at the last election . |
| 23 | Okay we find quite a few clothes bits of leather , shoes , stuff like that , okay . |
| 24 | A few feet south of the CBR entrance was a side entrance to the hotel leading down to a beer parlour on one side and the spacious Hotel Cafeteria on the other . |
| 25 | Back to that poky little shop , livin' off the takin 's of penny bags of bullseyes and a few pence worth of paraffin oil ! ’ |
| 26 | Get a few nibbles sort of like couple of days before like er cos if Kim comes I 'll do like I did last year , just a little buffet tea . |
| 27 | The Seychelles lie in the middle of the Indian Ocean , just a few degrees south of the equator . |
| 28 | Just a few yards north of the inn is a farm that serves teas in the summer . |
| 29 | Only the tower of this church remains , a few yards west of which can be found Cook Senior 's last resting place , marked curiously by a stone commemorating a boy who died at sea . |
| 30 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |