Example sentences of "a few [noun] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's Nick Harris talking to Ken Vasey up at the Manor ground and we hope to return to the Manor in a few moments time and see who else Nick has got to talk to us . |
| 2 | There was a tumult at the gates , and in a few moments Dunan and the Hearthwares joined them . |
| 3 | It was poor but swept clean , a few pewter pots and pans , scrubbed in boiling water , hanging from nails in the wall . |
| 4 | We floundered around for an hour or so , seeing a few wood sandpipers and dusky redshanks ( who invariably saw us first ) . |
| 5 | I gave up at half a dozen , desultorily checked a few share prices and failed to read more than two paragraphs of an article on the gilt-edged market . |
| 6 | Most door-to-door sales people carry a few sample items and an illustrated catalogue showing their complete range of goods . |
| 7 | The card below it shows three ‘ Marjorie Fair ’ roses , a few alchemilla flowers and the leaves and tendrils of some old man 's beard . |
| 8 | So training is very easy to implement like that with a few memory cells and a binary decoder . |
| 9 | The investor who has a few privatisation shares and wants to extend a portfolio without paying for advice does have a cheap alternative to discretionary portfolio management . |
| 10 | Vary the order with a few vegetable dishes and steamed rice . |
| 11 | The scientists stressed that it was little more than a laboratory curiosity , the energy coming from the fusion of only a few hydrogen atoms and ‘ was scarcely enough to register on highly sensitive measuring instruments ’ ; although the process had no immediate commercial value it suggested ‘ possible industrial uses of immeasurable importance ’ . |
| 12 | Joseph fell seriously ill at this time , and so Ollokot , accompanied by a few Wellamotkin warriors and an elderly holy man , represented the Wallowa band . |
| 13 | Catherine has entered a few poetry competitions and written other short stories . |
| 14 | What he needed was someone to get him by the scruff of the neck , tell him a few home truths and offer emotional stability . |
| 15 | In the early nineteenth century ice was used for this purpose only in a most limited way , on a few country estates and in the area around Barking , where it was collected from the marshes most winters . |
| 16 | So enter stage left the Doomsday Squad : Captain Carnage and Major Mayhem are the guys to complete the mission at hand , so grab a pal , insert a few brass squids and press the start button . |
| 17 | Most were Kamalians but there were also Spaniards from the Basque region , Africans from the front-line states , plus a few East Germans and one man from the Republic of Ireland . |
| 18 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |
| 19 | I will , therefore , concentrate on a few problem shapes and situations . |
| 20 | Deep in my stomach the whirling pits started a few trial revolutions and it was n't down to the meat pie I 'd had . |
| 21 | Ten years is a long time in the world of books , but I do remember there was not nearly such a fuss over the original 1983 list : a rather uncomfortable party in some medical establishment , a few diary paragraphs and that was it . |
| 22 | It did n't get me out of very much , except a few guard duties and er I collected one stripe , and then two , and I did the pay and all sorts of things . |
| 23 | We only had three Sisters , about eight staff nurses , a few ward orderlies and fortunately eight doctors were within call . |
| 24 | Only a few city regions and industrial areas gained constantly throughout the period ( figure 2. 11 ) . |
| 25 | 4oz ( 100g ) boiled brown rice mixed with 1oz ( 25g ) each of peas , sweetcorn , red and green peppers , cucumber , a few spring onions and 1 chopped tomato , plus a diet fromage frais or yogurt OR 4 Ryvitas spread with reduced-oil salad dressing or a little horseradish sauce , and 3 oz ( 75g ) salmon , tuna or mackerel , topped with sliced cucumber , plus 1 piece of any fresh fruit |
| 26 | This was mainly rural farmland with a few market towns and small coastal resorts . |
| 27 | Raffle prizes went to , , and and there are a few Christmas Cards and boxes of crackers left if anyone would like to buy them ! |
| 28 | The effect off the coast of Ecuador is twofold : first , the waters off the Ecuadorian coast ( a few degrees north and south of the equator ) are unusually cold — indeed , so powerful is the upwelling that a belt of this oddly cold water extends west from Ecuador for nearly 3,000 miles . |
| 29 | Well it 's always nice to keep a clean sheet , you know , especially away from home , but , you know , we just , just get a few League wins and er get the confidence back again . |
| 30 | A few sports shirts and a sweater will do ; and they 'll probably not even have been unpacked when you get home . |