Example sentences of "a few [noun] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 2 | Booksellers also tend to prefer not to be associated exclusively with a few authorities or institutions , so that they themselves are less vulnerable to any changes in those libraries ' policies . |
| 3 | Candida set about improving Sara 's still boyish figure with a few handkerchiefs and pins . |
| 4 | Gilkicker and Browndown yielding a few pout and dabs after dark . |
| 5 | you know just cos there 's a few fights and drunks down there , I thought it ca n't be that bad . |
| 6 | During the bad weather we experienced a few disasters and events , but they were of little consequence . |
| 7 | But all day he would n't talk to me , and I must admit , I did get quite a few looks and remarks from boys there . |
| 8 | Once again they were relatively complex to use and whilst smaller and faster still restricted the user to a few faces and sizes at any one time . |
| 9 | As always , we have to be prepared beforehand , and as we can not start the job without tools , this is the place for a few dos and don'ts . |
| 10 | They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren . |
| 11 | It really is a multi-million pound industry … convincing people they could look better just a few pounds or stones lighter and this is how to do it . |
| 12 | Whether I was asleep or not , a few hours or minutes later I am undoubtedly awake . |
| 13 | They may also know of people seeking work for a few hours or days per week , perhaps to help out with the garden , or heavier household tasks , or shopping . |
| 14 | These eruptions give rise to rocks known as ignimbrites , and they are so powerful that tens of cubic kilometres of ignimbrite can be erupted in nuee ardente-like incandescent clouds in the space of a few hours or days . |
| 15 | What I must do is get to know the people over a few hours or days and find out what they 're trying to do , what their activities are , whether they have children or pets . |
| 16 | The life-shortening effect in LAWER is claimed to be ‘ smaller than that in euthanasia because the patients usually have only a few hours or days to live ’ . |
| 17 | The couple 's interest in gardening began with the desire to grow fuchsias to fill a few pots and baskets . |
| 18 | Dustin , who had arrived with Anne , three-month-old Jennifer , and a nanny , played the piano or sang dirty songs to a guitar accompaniment in the hotel lounge in the evenings and , on one occasion , went into the kitchen to gather a few pots and pans to use as bongo drums in order to entertain his colleagues . |
| 19 | The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies . |
| 20 | ( A wry comment from two young people who sometimes had to delay posting letters until they could find a few pennies for stamps . ) |
| 21 | A few bleeps and bloops only ( just like KLF ! ) |
| 22 | He looked through the xerox sheets that had been pressed between them but there was nothing too controversial there , just a Jenner Clinic catalogue and price schedule and a few dates and details . |
| 23 | There are hundreds of small hideous terrace houses in livid brick , a few chapels and railwaymen 's clubs , humped in the flat countryside around the railway workshops and one of the most dangerous bridges in the country . |
| 24 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 25 | Burnham boat anglers enjoyed good sport with cod and a few dogfish and rays . |
| 26 | This means that each job is learned completely and thoroughly , but I could n't help thinking that a few musicians and/or luthiers at strategic points around the factory would n't go amiss — groundworkers who actually understand how a guitar works and who could spot problems from the playing perspective , rather than just the engineering view . |
| 27 | I did a few odds and ends in the garden on Saturday , played a round of golf on Sunday morning . |
| 28 | You will then still have enough material with which to create an attractive picture , rather than try to make a suitable design from a few odds and ends . |
| 29 | It contained mainly socks , papers , a few odds and ends like hairbrushes , and a book called The Spy With No Trousers . |
| 30 | a few odds and ends added to it ? |