Example sentences of "a few [noun sg] [noun pl] [coord] " 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 Most door-to-door sales people carry a few sample items and an illustrated catalogue showing their complete range of goods .
5 So training is very easy to implement like that with a few memory cells and a binary decoder .
6 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 .
7 Vary the order with a few vegetable dishes and steamed rice .
8 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 ’ .
9 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 .
10 I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank .
11 Catherine has entered a few poetry competitions and written other short stories .
12 What he needed was someone to get him by the scruff of the neck , tell him a few home truths and offer emotional stability .
13 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 .
14 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 ?
15 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 .
16 I will , therefore , concentrate on a few problem shapes and situations .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 We only had three Sisters , about eight staff nurses , a few ward orderlies and fortunately eight doctors were within call .
22 Only a few city regions and industrial areas gained constantly throughout the period ( figure 2. 11 ) .
23 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
24 This was mainly rural farmland with a few market towns and small coastal resorts .
25 Raffle prizes went to , , and and there are a few Christmas Cards and boxes of crackers left if anyone would like to buy them !
26 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 .
27 Today most ports have only a few fishing boats but large fleets still work from three of the ports .
28 We only had a few paving slabs but a large area to cover , so decided to lay the slabs in islands .
29 At present a person can take a few driving lessons and pass a driving test and he is then free to purchase any type of car they can afford , regardless of how powerful that car is .
30 Give me a six foot tank and I 'm more likely to put a shoal of small 25mm Tetras into it , along with a few Dwarf Cichlids and Corydoras , than use it for one or two larger fish .
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