Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 2 | This could be replicated , at least superficially , by boiling in a concentrated caustic soda solution to give a white patination ; the addition of a few rusty nails would then turn the patina brown . |
| 3 | The top picture was composed of agrimony leaves and alchemilla flowers , with the addition of a few pink larkspur and red hawthorn flowers . |
| 4 | Whilst the daisies look fine as they are , they will look quite stunning with the addition of a few butterflies and these are great fun to create . |
| 5 | Free fatty acids were then eluted three times with methanol acidified to pH 3 by the addition of a few drops of acetic acid . |
| 6 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 7 | As we shook hands and started to walk along a narrow path in the direction of a few slit trenches , Tony remarked , ‘ Big change out here from the South Coast of England , or the wilds of Achnacarry ! |
| 8 | Certainly , the change within a few months from the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes to the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union suggests great confusion of purpose . |
| 9 | The desire to travel — especially among the young and the well-educated — depends not only on the existence of a few Great Sights , but also on scenic variety , a sense that a particular place is different and , above all , old . |
| 10 | Once Queen Victoria had been established on the throne for a few decades , she acquired a natural authority when dealing with her prime ministers . |
| 11 | He believes standards have only slipped in the case of a few companies , but that the press tends to seize on these examples and blow them up out of all proportion . |
| 12 | To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things . |
| 13 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 14 | Child reading profiles , detailing work done , books read , skills learned , spellings known and test scores , would be printed by the computer in a few seconds . |
| 15 | It will stop the Yssgaroth for a few hours … . ’ |
| 16 | Surely you can tap the chairman for a few quid so we can buy someone half-decent . |
| 17 | " The Chairman after a few remarks called upon Mr. Borland to read his Essay on " Labour , " after which all the Members in rotation were requested to give their views on the subject . |
| 18 | " The Chairman after a few opening remarks intimated to the Meeting that the Debate would be taken up by the Revd. |
| 19 | For that , the election of a few more pro-privatisation politicians would help . |
| 20 | They begged Rytasha for reimbursement , but none was forthcoming , and for the want of a few hundred pounds the village lost its crop for the year . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll notice that this ‘ fridge opens from right to left , so the door would conceal the identity of anyone entering the kitchen for a few seconds at least . |
| 22 | He came into the kitchen after a few moments and she turned away , wandering to the far side to get away from him , battling with the sudden incredible desire to break down and sob like a little girl who had done the wrong thing yet again . |
| 23 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ The turntable ladder only just fitted into the churchyard by a few inches . |
| 25 | The presence of a few colonies of candida does not constitute infection , however , any more than the presence of many other organisms in small numbers in the vagina means that they are there in a pathogenic capacity . |
| 26 | The day was marred only slightly by the presence of a few of that fraternity who find out about all such events , spend the whole day taking photographs and video and contribute very little or nothing back into the hobby . |
| 27 | In the presence of a few hundred Masai , the young warrior hurled his spear right through the district officer 's heart . |
| 28 | Her parents travelled home in the first week of October leaving her with fields enriched by the presence of a few dozen sheep and enough advice to see her through the cow 's first calving and the sow 's first litter . |
| 29 | But she was still found hanging at her home in the city a month ago , the second suicide at the University within a few months . |
| 30 | Later on you can turn the small pit into a muddy puddle for the odd water lily , and contemplate , while scratching mosquito bites , whether the building of a few sandcastles justified a hole in the patio or the loss of a dream border to that safe , but monotonous , area of lawn . |