Example sentences of "a few [noun sg] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was poor but swept clean , a few pewter pots and pans , scrubbed in boiling water , hanging from nails in the wall . |
| 2 | We floundered around for an hour or so , seeing a few wood sandpipers and dusky redshanks ( who invariably saw us first ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A very simple and beautiful example of the use of substitution notes may be found at the beginning of Wagner 's Tristan und Isolde : Here the commonplace cadence A minor-F7-E7 is given a subtle mystery through the use of a few substitution notes as follows : in bar 2 , G is a chromatic substitution for A ( on which it resolves ) , while B is a diatonic substitution for A or C , on which it does not resolve ; in bar 3 , A substitutes chromatically for B , on which it resolves . |
| 5 | Most door-to-door sales people carry a few sample items and an illustrated catalogue showing their complete range of goods . |
| 6 | So training is very easy to implement like that with a few memory cells and a binary decoder . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Vary the order with a few vegetable dishes and steamed rice . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank . |
| 12 | I 've pulled out a few press cuttings as well whilst I was looking through some of the for this talk . |
| 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 | And we 'll drop in on the way home to watch a few election results or do you think if I start having a party tomorrow night it 's gon na get out of hand ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So she has to go on a a Monday night , and she 's had a few day courses as well . |
| 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 | And we should just sort of say what is necessary to find out and everybody gets a few telephone numbers or telephone calls check out addresses find out about new ones , get in contact with the district council erm what is in the pipeline . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | We only had three Sisters , about eight staff nurses , a few ward orderlies and fortunately eight doctors were within call . |
| 25 | Only a few city regions and industrial areas gained constantly throughout the period ( figure 2. 11 ) . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | This was mainly rural farmland with a few market towns and small coastal resorts . |
| 28 | Raffle prizes went to , , and and there are a few Christmas Cards and boxes of crackers left if anyone would like to buy them ! |
| 29 | I know , we 're not er we ai n't af we ai n't afraid of a few bum workers cos we have got er good engineers like , you know ? |
| 30 | 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 . |