Example sentences of "are a few [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They retired a fortnight ago , , called the oh aye there are a few nicknames for them , including the Sisters . |
| 2 | There are a few things to be wary of in using the fifty millesimals . |
| 3 | While there are a few things in digital technology which have no possible representation in analogue form — infinite impulse response filters are a good example — most digital blocks derive their shape from the original analogue function . |
| 4 | Oh she 's says It 's not coal , no , I do n't use it for coal , she sa I 've got gas central heating , we do n't need No it 's just that er well there are a few things in there . |
| 5 | Golden-leaved marjoram , yellow-variegated lemon balm , white-variegated pineapple mint , purple-leaved sage , blue rue , the filmy leaves of bronze fennel , and the pink , purple and blue , leaf-like bracts of clary are a few herbs of this kind . |
| 6 | And that is , when , I ca n't remember what it 's called , and erm when the sex cells are made exactly half of an individual 's genes go into each , and when sex cells er come together in a fertilized exactly half of each parent 's genes are fitted together , so that 's completely fair , well almost completely fair , because there are a few genes outside the nucleus that only get they 're , they 're in a rather minority . |
| 7 | This is not the place to explain logic , but there are a few bits of terminology which occur often in this subject which are not entirely standard . |
| 8 | Codes can easily be devised to suit your individual tastes , but the following are a few hints on which you might build . |
| 9 | Here are a few hints for speech-making of any kind . |
| 10 | Young Charles is one of several up and coming teenagers in the Halkyn team along with Gareth Jacobs and Gareth Thomas , while there are a few others in the second eleven hoping for a first team chance . |
| 11 | There are a few glimmers of hope , however , since fewer firms are having trouble collecting fees and all but the larger firms are optimistic about increasing their client base . |
| 12 | While there are a few changes in detail , most British school and college mathematics classrooms do not differ much from those of a hundred years ago . |
| 13 | There are a few records for June and July , when up to four have been seen together . |
| 14 | There are a few records from the coast every year suggesting migration . |
| 15 | Most species are a few centimetres to a few tens of centimetres long . |
| 16 | Could you see that there are a few crates of champagne — those half-bottles , so convenient for visitors . ’ |
| 17 | There are a few pairs of words ( minimal pairs ) in which a difference in meaning appears to depend on whether a particular is syllabic or not , for example : But we find no case of syllabic where it would not be possible to substitute either non-syllabic ( type a ) or ( type b ) ; in the examples above , ‘ Hungary ’ could equally well be pronounced and ‘ adulterous ’ as . |
| 18 | Significantly , there are a few areas of overlap , which will allow very effective dovetailing between our operations . |
| 19 | There are a few touches of delirium in Lecercle 's text itself , as he would certainly be delighted to admit ; I take them to be caused by an invasion of normal English by French . |
| 20 | It is unusual for the cost of extra fares to be given as a lump sum consolidated into salary , although there are a few firms in which this has been agreed . |
| 21 | I do n't know if any of the other Sunday rags picked this up but here are a few snippets from an article in the ‘ Yorkshire on Sunday ’ , entitled ‘ Batty blasts Leeds ’ ( 26.12.93 ) |
| 22 | There are a few accents of English which may do this , so that , for example , ‘ cattle ’ is pronounced , but this is not the case in RP . |
| 23 | Vacancies still exist for tenors and basses in particular and also there are a few spaces for contraltos . |
| 24 | There are a few planets in the evening sky , though . |
| 25 | Needless to say , there are a few surprises in these performances : the Academy 's playing is a polished as ever , Marriner 's conducting urbane and refined . |
| 26 | There are a few surprises in the music itself , no neglected giants waiting to be discovered ( not , at least , on the strength of the music recorded here ) . |
| 27 | Locals tend to stick to the pleasures of eating out in the evening , but there are a few spots in town for night revels . |
| 28 | There are a few signs of that fierce screwing up of feudal payments characteristic of the later stages of the ancien régime in France ; in Catalonia , for instance , a steady increase in the price of the farms of feudal dues overtook the rise in agricultural prices . |
| 29 | It continued as a draught animal into the nineteenth century and even into the twentieth century here and there , and today there are a few teams of working Sussex oxen at open-air museums and farm parks . |
| 30 | Here are a few indications of the different laws worldwide where a stolen work is put up for sale . |