Example sentences of "with a few [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without bothering to confirm the report , Guretzky-Cornitz passed it on to Army HQ , embellished with a few boastful addenda of his own . |
| 2 | In cases around the room lie the collected fragmentary treasures of human ancestry , mostly skulls , jaws and teeth with a few partial limb bones . |
| 3 | Whether it has been recently fired will only be shown with a few additional laboratory tests . |
| 4 | He knew he must look barely human , a robotic skeleton with a few charred scarecrow tatters hanging from the steel . |
| 5 | The pale , polished maplewood floor was strewn with a few vibrant kelim rugs . |
| 6 | The market expects a jump in profits from £3.4m to £4.2m pre-tax this year and news of further contract awards , together with a few senior management appointments , is expected soon . |
| 7 | They were exactly the sort you 'd expect to see at this kind of activity : mostly middle-aged or older Americans or Germans in running shoes , with a few earnest Guardian readers thrown in for local colour . |
| 8 | You could experiment with a few different distortion pedals . |
| 9 | The canoeing is mostly grade I racks with a few tight grade I+/II shoots ; there is one grade II at Bogroy footbridge , a twisting descent over 3 rock ledges , and the photographically spectacular grade III in the centre of Carrbridge itself . |
| 10 | All too often a patio is merely an area of plain paving slabs furnished with a few metal-framed sun loungers , which are functional but hardly attractive . |
| 11 | As far as the performance went … well , individually Macca played really well with a few lovely cross field balls . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've entered every year for the past 15 years and my bike has covered the distance every time — with a few minor running repairs sometimes . |
| 13 | The population of this delightful little town was estimated in the official census of 1894 to be 19,722 , most of them Martiniquians — a hybrid mixture of creole , mulatto , negro and coolie — with a few French government officials and civil servants . |
| 14 | To make them easier to serve , we 've firmed up the mixture with a few fine cake crumbs so that they do n't melt the moment they hit room temperature . |
| 15 | A little walled garden , with a few pollarded lime trees in it , and one or two urns and busts , and a solitary policeman tucked away in a little sentry-box inside the gateway . |