Example sentences of "a few [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were n't many here , a few along the stream , a dipper flicking white-chested over the water , pigeons clattering out of the fir near the drive , a tangle of hemlock and cow parsley along the fence hiding pheasants . |
| 2 | Some of the north-facing slopes are less favoured and , while most of the vines are found at a height of between 140 and 180 metres , a few to the east and north of the village grow above 200 metres . |
| 3 | Just a few over the winter ? |
| 4 | However , there is little else authentically recorded , a strange omission inasmuch as these galleries and a few over the West Yorkshire border are indigenous to this area . |
| 5 | When the steamboat touches the pier , you are met by a throng of canvassers from the hotels and private lodging-house keepers , and not a few of the holiday residents , who look out eagerly , in the hope of mayhap meeting friend or acquaintance or notable traveller . |
| 6 | Quite a few of the DOS commands are supplied as separate COM and EXE files , for example , DOSKEY.COM and PRINT.EXE These files are usually stored in a subdirectory called DOS on the C drive . |
| 7 | ‘ You and I — and quite a few of the nightclub staff — will be required to help the police put all the pieces of the jigsaw together , ’ said Adam . |
| 8 | Although quite a few of the sample married , like Annie J. , comparatively late in life , most of the marriages were contracted while the bride was still in her twenties . |
| 9 | Explore North Wales 's beauty spots and see the splendour of Snowdonia , magnificent Castles , lakes , Slate quarries and Welsh Woollen Mills , to name but a few of the Full-Day and Half-Day Coach Tours available . |
| 10 | By the early 1980s there were three main Dak units , ( plus a few of the breed scattered around as base hacks ) : No 25 at Ysterplaat on maritime work , No 44 at Swartkop on general duties and a training unit , 86 Multi-Engine Flying School ( MEFS ) at Bloemspruit . |
| 11 | He wandered around for a while and ran into a few of the household busy with their duties . |
| 12 | A few of the ulema , highly placed in the government , encouraged him in his attacks on the gazi emirates , ulema " whose ideas and sentiments had remained attached to the ancient centres of Islam from which they had come as poor adventurers and to which they intended to return as wealthy ministers of the new master " . |
| 13 | This type of decoration , consisting of individually stitched beads , was found only among a few of the Plateau tribes . |
| 14 | Indeed , although many settlements of the pagan Saxon period and a few of the middle and late Saxon periods have been excavated , they are in general not directly associated with ‘ modern ’ villages . |
| 15 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 16 | ‘ Civil enough to supply a few of the home comforts my bachelor status denies me , perhaps ? ’ |
| 17 | Before picking out a few of the research findings , which highlight short-comings , I should say that there was a great deal to commend and admire about the response to the Act from individual schools and authorities in very difficult circumstances , not the least of which was the failure of central government to provide any additional resources . |
| 18 | Petion and a few of the hospital staff have rifles and handguns as well , and all the patients have been brought into the middle rooms for safety . ’ |
| 19 | Secondly , a few of the aniline dyes developed by Nicholson are still used today . |
| 20 | C. A few of the market towns became especially popular . |
| 21 | Following the implementation of the new Financial Services Act , licensed dealers dragged their nets to pull in a few of the old-style hard sell merchants . |
| 22 | The students had not yet arrived , but I took meals in the refectory with a few of the college authorities and professors who had already started the new term 's work . |
| 23 | Only a few of the science attainment targets are covered . |
| 24 | Such were only a few of the multitude of his accomplishments . |
| 25 | A few of the population are employed in maintaining the two lighthouses , Skroo at the north end and Skaden at the south end . |
| 26 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 27 | All but a few of the team were destined for careers in uniform , and played little more . |
| 28 | Below are a few of the personality types which are the result of habit and conditioning . |
| 29 | It was in fact somewhat of a surprise to see cadet editions of a few of the Hornblower novels published for readers in the early and mid-teens , since neither Forester 's open , smooth narrative style nor his approach to sex and violence could be considered exacting or improper where young readers were concerned . |
| 30 | We clerks might have found comfort if we had known that many floors above us a few of the bank 's more senior personnel were smuggling personal computers into the building in a bid to free themselves . |