Example sentences of "a few [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only through the cavorting about but by excruciatingly pretentious rave-speak between songs , a few pointless samples , a few pointless keyboard squiggles and a bit of pointless scratching from the sadly redundant DJ . |
| 2 | So your ideal system would have been to have a few strategic Cabinet committees beneath the Cabinet that would have done all the most controversial business ? |
| 3 | A few remaining palm trees clad in white coral dust looked ghostly in the moonlight . |
| 4 | I fancied that except for a few corrugated iron roofs it still looked the same as when he had been here . |
| 5 | There is a single Shahjehani-style pavilion , a few dry water channels and fine surrounding wall . |
| 6 | So if you did a few chemical test on U two three five , U two three eight , you would n't be able to tell the difference . |
| 7 | Of the 84 cars in stock in 1919 , half comprised the Toastracks and Dreadnoughts and a few dated back to 1885 ! |
| 8 | There are also a few low-calorie convenience dinners that are allowed . |
| 9 | This had been talked about by a few experienced bomber squadron commanders , notably Wg Cdrs " Willie " Tait , Charles Whitworth , Syd Bufton and , of course , " Jimmy " Marks who , as bomber pilots . |
| 10 | So one day , say , do a few normal type products , next say , put some sines and coses and and gets |
| 11 | Perhaps she can sell them a few sleeping policeman , I ca n't remember her saying so as such . |
| 12 | A few private training establishments ( see pp. 207–10 ) run long and short courses specially designed for smallholders . |
| 13 | Or was he intending for his debut feature to have just a limited run in a few European art houses ? |
| 14 | Try placing the unit under load ( a current of a few hundred mA would be useful ) and see if the voltage drop across R13 increases . |
| 15 | Consequently , the surface is peppered with impact craters , many of which date back to within a few hundred Ma of the Moon 's formation . |
| 16 | During the first few tens of Ma Jupiter would cool so quickly that it hardly matters what the initial temperatures were provided that they were at least a few times 10 000 K. After a few hundred Ma , the exact time depending on the initial temperatures but in any case a small fraction of Jupiter 's lifetime , the rate of cooling would be far less . |
| 17 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 18 | A sample of a few hundred census records is often just as useful as a database of several thousands . |
| 19 | Telomere function seems to be fully defined within a few hundred base pairs in ciliates or yeasts and thousands base pairs in vertebrates . |
| 20 | Pure beef cattle are rare : there is a handful of Aberdeen Angus , about 2,000 Hereford , 3,000 Charolais , 800 Simmental and a few hundred Limousin , Scottish Highland and Blonde d'Aquitaine . |
| 21 | The finished string of a few hundred amino acids will , in a suitable liquid medium at a suitable temperature , fold up to form a three-dimensional globular structure , the active protein . |
| 22 | when people are sitting there and thinking oh yes I 'll have a storage heater , you keep lovely and warm you get your bill at the end , a few hundred pound er |
| 23 | Although the finding of typical , oval , thin-shelled strongyle eggs on faecal examination may be a useful aid to diagnosis , it is important to remember that substantial worm burdens may be associated with faecal egg counts of only a few hundred epg , due either to low fecundity of adult worms or to the presence of many immature parasites . |
| 24 | Whether this moderate tower in St Enoch 's Square will do more than brighten up a few central shopping streets remains to be seen . |
| 25 | There is a sizeable iron water wheel still in situ although , with the exception of some iron framing and a few odd belt wheels , little else remains of its milling equipment . |
| 26 | I decided that there might well be a few odd cancer cells lurking about that my immune system had n't spotted or had been too demoralized to deal with — and anyway , was n't I , like everyone else , making thousands of cancer cells every day ? |
| 27 | Martin played in two Tests in India and one in Pakistan on the way home , in front of massive crowds , picking up eight further wickets and playing a few useful tailend innings ; but there was only one Test appearance to come , and that was at Port Elizabeth on the 1966–67 tour , the final Test , after Martin had taken 11 wickets in the Griqualand West match and six in the South African XI match at Pietermaritzburg preceding the Test . |
| 28 | ‘ Just because he won a few stupid car races , ’ she went on , ‘ he seems to think he rules the world ! |
| 29 | I also duped a few stupid coventry fans into thinking I was a new signing as i walked out of the officials entrance after the match … did about 8 or 9 autographs : - ) ) ) |
| 30 | And if you 're so inclined , there 's potential for ticking off a few classic rock climbs along the way . |